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That taboo subject: money. Here, have a spreadsheet.

I know people get weird when it comes to talking about money, but when I was planning this trip, that fact made my life difficult. While I could piece together the cost of certain things (train tickets, hostels, etc.) I really had no idea how much people were spending on an average basis on a [...]

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Before and After

I don’t usually do much Photoshopping of the pictures that I take. I shoot in RAW and I post-process, but that’s only using Canon’s free Digital Photo Pro app, and usually the only thing I really do in there is sharpen and tinker with white balance. But for the photo shoot I did of my [...]

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2009 in review

2009 was, pretty much without a doubt, the best and craziest year of my life. It wasn’t the easiest, but I had ridiculous amounts of fun living it. Snapshots: I acquired a number of colorful shirts while playing on several kickball and dodgeball teams in the winter, spring, and summer. . Early April found me [...]

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Kari’s cheap travel tips (aka how I travel so much on a charter school teacher’s salary)

As I was writing up the post for day 2, I started to write a list of cheap travel tips. After I’d finished, I took a look at it and realized that it was really long enough to be its own post, so I figured I’d post it as such, and I’ll get the day [...]

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New editing toy!

After muddling along with an old and slow (and small – 12″ screen!) Dell laptop, I broke down and used part of my bonus from work to get myself a desktop. The computer is a quad core running Windows Vista on 3GB RAM, and compared to my old laptop, it’s a speed demon.

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