Pub Quiz – Frustrated Contents

Forgot to post after last Tuesday’s pub quiz. We tied with 4 other teams for 4th place. The frustrating thing is, we had at least seven right answers written down that we argued ourselves out of. Here are some examples of things we had right and then changed: Marilyn Monroe’s Read more…

Why I Hate Taxes

“Your housing amount is the total of your housing expenses for the year minus a base amount. The base amount is 16% of the annual salary of a GS-14, step 1, U.S. Government employee, figured on a daily basis, times the number of days during the year that you meet Read more…

Fantasy Football Week 6

I beat Guze! Granted, he felt honor bound to only pick from the last three or four games (the late games) because we couldn’t connect in time to do a formal draft, but hey, I’ll take it where I can get it. I am still the underdo here as I Read more…

Finance Thoughts

I don’t know when exactly it happened, but somewhere along the way, I think about 2002, I really got into keeping track of my finances. Since birth I had been the most unorganized person when it came to money. Never knew how much I had, never thought about saving, never Read more…

Fantasy Football – Week 4

The word ‘massacre’ comes to mind. I had a fit of stupidity this week, that’s all there is to it. I haven’t even tallied up the final score it’s so pathetic. I have something in the range of 60 and Guze has something in the range of 110. Almost double. Read more…

Pub Quiz – New Record High Rank

Been so busy now that school started that I didn’t get a chance to immediately post the results of the Table of Contents’ last showing at the pub quiz. 3rd place!!! In case you weren’t keeping track, that’s the best we’ve ever done. We had a full complement of five Read more…

Kavalier and Clay

Okay, so on my wife’s prodding I read “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay“. She always reads these “literary” type books and then shames me into reading them. The other one she made me read is The Secret History by Donna Tartt. I really didn’t like either of them. Read more…