What Noisy Cats Are We

Nice little place over in W. Newton. Check it out!

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I’ve been trying to bake a simple bread on and off for months.  I’m new to baking, and I have a broken oven.  (Long story, and I’m sure the subject of another post, but more or less the temperature needs to be manually controlled.)
That said, I FINALLY found a simple enough, well explained recipe for [...]

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I’m sure this is common knowledge but just in case, here’s some useful info:  You can reduce the interest rate on your Direct Loan from the US Department Of Education by .25% if you just sign up for them to auto-draft your checking or savings account every month for the payment!  It sounds like a [...]

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I used to talk about how great CoinStar is and how it made turning in your coins such a breeze.  I used CoinStar for years and always thought they did a good job at making people create $$ out of their spare change.  Then a couple of months ago I had an epiphany: Spare change [...]

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I LOVE Yelp!  I try to review as many things as possible there, and I have gotten some great recommendations from the site.  You can see my latest reviews on the left hand sidebar of this blog, actually.
That said, I went to The Union last night over in Newton Center and wrote a very brief [...]

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I’ve used a few different IM programs over the years, starting with AOL IM and ICQ almost a decade ago.  I now have accounts on multiple IM networks and got tired of running multiple IM programs.  I’m on a PC, and I have tried Trillian, Gaim, and others.  The one I’ve found to work the [...]

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In an effort to put more $ toward the new home theater fund, I sold off the PS2 yesterday.  I managed to get $75 for the system with two games and one controller.  It was in relatively good condition, and the only thing we used it for was to watch DVD’s.  I can count on [...]

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I thought it would be a good idea to take one of my unused domains, brandonvogel.com, and monetize it by using GoDaddy’s CashParking service. Ends up it’s been costing me $4.00 per month and I’ve gotten exactly nothing out of it. I’m canceling it today and will just put up a bunch of [...]

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More or less this movie creeped me the hell out! I have not been so creeped out since High Tension. It’s a story of a group of six or so adventurous women who set out on a spelunking expedition. Soon they are in over their heads due to the manipulation of one [...]

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I picked up Sebastian Junger’s “A Death In Belmont” at the Harvard Book Store a few months ago and just got time to get to it last weekend. I was bored after finishing off three or four books that I’d started and were languishing around and I couldn’t find anything on my shelf that [...]

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