Book: A Name to Conjure With by Donald Aamodt (1989)
Up to this point, A Name to Conjure With has been weird, funny, and kind of charming. Sandy got pulled into another world, teamed up with a cranky sorcerer and a desert warrior, and they’ve been stumbling from one mess to the next. It felt like a rough adventure. Messy but manageable.
So you’ve seen the DIY options from the first half of Chapter 3. Cool. But maybe you don’t want to build something from scratch. Maybe you want to just buy a bin, set it up, and start composting this weekend. That’s totally valid. Kim Pezza covers commercial bins and placement in the second half of this chapter, and there’s more to think about than you’d expect.
Pigs will eat almost anything. That is a fact. Historically, they were called “mortgage lifters” on dairy farms because you could feed them leftover whey and scraps, fatten them up, and sell them for extra income. Pretty smart system.
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Chapter 17 drops us back to Dominaria and the aftermath of the ambulator battle. And it’s one of those chapters where three characters stand around a Phyrexian corpse and everyone learns something they didn’t want to know.
Book: It’s About Squirrels… by Lynn Abbey
So Nic is napping between resume emails when someone bangs on her door. Her first thought is that something happened to her parents. That’s the kind of headspace she’s in.
Book: Bank 3.0: Why Banking Is No Longer Somewhere You Go But Something You Do Author: Brett King ISBN: 978-1-118-58963-2 Chapter 3: Can the Branch Be Saved?
Book: Commodities: Markets, Performance, and Strategies
Editors: H. Kent Baker, Greg Filbeck, Jeffrey H. Harris
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2018
ISBN: 9780190656010
This is part of my series retelling Diary of a Very Bad Year. Today we’re covering Chapter II.
Six months have passed since the first interview. It’s March 26, 2008. The Dow is at 12,422. Unemployment is 5.1%. And Bear Stearns just got bought for pocket change.
Book: A Name to Conjure With by Donald Aamodt (1989)
The group is in a desert town. It’s hot, dusty, and full of the kind of people who don’t ask questions because they don’t want questions asked of them. The town exists as a waypoint for traders, smugglers, and anyone else who needs supplies before heading into the deeper desert.
Everyone saw it coming. Nobody did anything about it.
That’s the short version of what happened between 2001 and 2008 in American finance. Charles H. Green lived through it as a banker. In Chapter 3 of The Banker’s Guide to New Small Business Finance, he lays out exactly how the capital markets blew up and what it meant for small businesses trying to get funded.