Art school, $42,000 a year; unexpected expenses $3,000 and rising; having your 18-year-old daughter out of the house, priceless. ... I think my email system is getting temperamental. I pressed the “Send” button and it responded, “Why should I?” But I may be getting too absorbed in technology. I had to attend a recent funeral and I asked, "Do you think the funeral home has Wi-Fi?" ...

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Faced with difficulty in trying to identify a lost PIN for my Continental Airlines account, I decided to use the airline’s virtual expert, Ask Alex. Since I had trouble getting my real questions across to the electronic genie, I decided there was a more productive use of my time with other questions as follows:

I think I've reached the age where my learning curve is more of a downward spiral. But I've also achieved a happy medium: my narcolepsy balances out my ADD. ...

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