Tina Langley

Tina Langley laughs outloud through my blog

Storage solutions

| April 27, 2010

I recently met a woman who has an “off the grid” type of house.  She’s a very nice lady, and she invited me to join her for tea at her place.  I didn’t realize when I accepted the offer the type of house she had – it was a complete surprise to me.  She lived [...]

It’s never a good time to break something

| April 26, 2010

Today I decided to try a new recipe in my bread machine. It included oats, wheat flour, and overripe bananas. I had three overripe bananas and I didn’t feel like making my usual (but yummy) banana bread, so I looked in my bread machine cookbook and found the recipe. I measured and poured, and started [...]

Tutoring isn’t what it used to be

| April 24, 2010

I can remember when I took Statistics in college.  The professor was very interesting and used a lot of visual aides and hands on examples.  One of the great things about him was that he had written the text that we were using, so he knew exactly what he wanted to teach.  He put everything [...]

Very disappointing

| April 23, 2010

I was very disappointed when I heard that the MSMoney software that I use to keep track of my finances was going to stop producing new versions and stop supporting the current ones. They sent out notices, suggesting that people switch to Quicken. I loved my MSMoney program. It let me forecast as far in [...]

Borrow responsibly

| April 17, 2010

One of the things that really bothers me when I watch the news is when I hear stories about how so many people take out high interest personal loans for frivolous things.  Naturally my idea of “frivolous” is not going to be the same as someone else’s “frivolous.”  To me, “frivolous” would fall into the “want [...]