The good news: For the next three days all members of the Eversave daily deal site will get a $10 credit, good on any deal.


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Carved on my gravestone would be the phrase, “Died of surfeit. She was smiling at the time.”


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Greetings from the City of Brotherly Love, where I arrived on only three hours’ sleep after flying all night. There’s a reason that ticket was only $264 RT — it was routed through Houston instead of going Seattle-Philadelphia nonstop.

I lived in Philly for a couple of years, and then in South Jersey while working in Philly until I left the region for good in 1984. Already I’ve relearned three things:

  1. Humidity makes me feel as though I’m being mopped. Seriously: It feels like wet strings are touching me at all times.
  2. Lightning and thunder are awesome. Also scary, if you’ve mostly been away from them for three decades.
  3. No matter where you sit, stand or lean, someone has probably urinated there.


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Getting out of town.

I got back from BlogHer 2011 late in the evening on July 9. Since then I’ve been hitting MSN Money and Get Rich Slowly deadlines pretty hard, and spending time (including a day in Vancouver, B.C.) with an old friend who’s here in town.

Just before midnight tonight I get on a plane for the East Coast, where I’ll be spending just over a month:


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Well, not really. But I’m giving away a product that will.


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