It’s still pretty early, and I am still working through my first cup of coffee.  So this post is just a collection of half-baked random ramblings that are floating through my mind.

First up, most of y’all have probably noticed a new banner over in the sidebar.  Debt Free Revolution has a new advertiser this month: Pens By Hans.  Hans has a new domain and is expanding his home business and is the first advertiser to get permission to use “DFR Endorsed” on his ad :)  I own one of his pens (thank you again, annonymous reader!) and pictures just don’t do these handmade ink pens justice.  Yes, I am still gushing over mine LOL

I almost forgot to mention!  Hans has a special for DFR readers!  He is giving y’all free shipping on orders placed from 1 May to 30 June 2008 if you put the code in the order or email him.  If you are interested, click through to the special page he made for y’all for details on how to get this.

Last night at work was unbelievably busy, and the storms didn’t help.  Folks, when the weather is hideous, you will NOT get your pizza as quickly.  We actually ran a TWO hour delivery time last night, and at least one customer chewed me out about that.  I wasn’t handed her order until one hour ten minutes after she ordered it, and I was also handed THREE orders that were older than that.  If the weather is ugly enough you don’t want to step outside your door, chances are good the rest of the town feels the same way.  Oh, and any sensible pizza delivery driver will slow down in bad weather, which compounds the problem.  Be patient if you order pizza in bad weather, and don’t take it out on the driver.

I still need your personal experiences of stagflation in the 1970s and any tips you may have on how to cope with that nasty economic situation.  Google could only find two pages on it, and they both said the same thing … and I will be picking apart what little advice I found in a future post.  It was pretty much the opposite of what I plan to do!

Speaking of inflation, I had the inflation talk with the Teenager yesterday, and we came to an agreement on changes to the “teenager on a food budget” experiment which will go into effect for tomorrow’s shopping expedition.  I’ll post the full details of it either tomorrow night after work or Monday morning.