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Oct. 16th, 2002 07:17 pmSo, yesterday, Lis and I went to a consumer credit counselor to find out what we should be doing better than we are now. We found out that, if we used their debt restructuring, we would be paying more a month and at higher interest rates. And the counselor looked at our budget, and couldn't see anything to cut back on.
So, that's actually pretty heartening. That means we're doing everything right. Our current debt management is better than what they could come up with, and we're not spending any money we don't have to.
After the meeting, Lis and I hung out in Downtown Crossing, a shops area in downtown Boston, and got lunch from a street vendor. Then we went to the Boston Common to eat. All of a sudden, all the pigeons in the common startled and flew straight at us -- a real Hitchcock moment. After a second, we saw why -- a peregrine falcoln swooped past a tree maybe thirty yards away. Lis said, "Woah! It's a freakin' falcoln!"
We were impressed. As far as we can tell, none of the other hundreds of people in the common saw it. At least, we were the only people staring up at the trees looking to see where it went.
Then we went to the Boston Athenaeum, a private library in Boston, which we have a membership to. (Okay, we do have a couple luxuries in our budget. But nothing excessive.) They've got neat books -- we found a couple books on telegraphy, from the era of telegraph expansion, copies of ship's logs from sixteenth century voyages to the New World, stuff like that.
Oh, yeah, and they've got the Heterodyne Boys' Big Book of Fun. Okay, not literally, because the HBBBoF was a fictional book created by Phil Foglio for his comic book STANLEY AND HIS MONSTER, but it's basically the same thing -- directions for hundreds of projects for children, from building your own gymnasium to making a wineglass glow with static electricity. It's called The Boy Mechanic: Things for Boys to Do, and it was originally owned by Henry Cabot Lodge when he was a boy. Nifty, nifty book.
So, that's actually pretty heartening. That means we're doing everything right. Our current debt management is better than what they could come up with, and we're not spending any money we don't have to.
After the meeting, Lis and I hung out in Downtown Crossing, a shops area in downtown Boston, and got lunch from a street vendor. Then we went to the Boston Common to eat. All of a sudden, all the pigeons in the common startled and flew straight at us -- a real Hitchcock moment. After a second, we saw why -- a peregrine falcoln swooped past a tree maybe thirty yards away. Lis said, "Woah! It's a freakin' falcoln!"
We were impressed. As far as we can tell, none of the other hundreds of people in the common saw it. At least, we were the only people staring up at the trees looking to see where it went.
Then we went to the Boston Athenaeum, a private library in Boston, which we have a membership to. (Okay, we do have a couple luxuries in our budget. But nothing excessive.) They've got neat books -- we found a couple books on telegraphy, from the era of telegraph expansion, copies of ship's logs from sixteenth century voyages to the New World, stuff like that.
Oh, yeah, and they've got the Heterodyne Boys' Big Book of Fun. Okay, not literally, because the HBBBoF was a fictional book created by Phil Foglio for his comic book STANLEY AND HIS MONSTER, but it's basically the same thing -- directions for hundreds of projects for children, from building your own gymnasium to making a wineglass glow with static electricity. It's called The Boy Mechanic: Things for Boys to Do, and it was originally owned by Henry Cabot Lodge when he was a boy. Nifty, nifty book.