I live in Nowhere, Maine and I have a roomie. If she moves to London as planned, it'll be $680 a month.

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I want to know where and how Lilty lives.

Not Lilty, but I'm pretty sure the answer is, "In Maine, with a roomie."

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Hee!

Verbatim. If I hadn't gone back and added the "Not Lilty" at the beginning, we might have been sharing a post number.

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And here I am, completely wanting to share mine and I figured out I'm not supposed to.

So. Vagueness and sliding sideways, my rent is $650 now and I'm currently without debt.

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Rent: $0 ($285 in utilities)

How's that work?

I've been thinking I may change it to just Lilty, though.

Oh, no, you'd lose the delightful contrast between the madcap lilt and the prosaic cash! Plus, it looks funny in Verdana.

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So, anyway, we're thinking pretty hard about moving, possibly building (straw bale!) so we'll need to up our salaries by about a grand a month.

If you do straw bale, I totally want to come out and help you because I want to learn how this is done. I'm fascinated by it. Or in other words, I'd be free labor.

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I can't figure out how that mistake could possibly happen

The company's name is Fairchild. I bet it's a .com vs. .net or .biz thing, or possibly their URL is something like fairchild-dresses.com and fairchild.com is porn. They should have checked the URL before they sent the ad out, but I can imagine situations where that wouldn't happen.

</speculation>

Edit: Oops, I misread. Fairchild is one of the magazine publishers. The dress manufacturer is Studio 17. Here's adrants.com on the subject:

While no one's talking, we're guessing the URL may have been studio17.com (a redirect to [link] which is, most assuredly, a teen porn site. Very not safe for work.

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We can never, ever, ever retire.

Don't get me wrong. I am ridiculously comfortable. But when I look at my finances, I'm terrified: they depend completely on having two computer-industry salaries. Pretty fragile, that.

One tech-industry salary, and usually only for 8-12 months at a time with a 4-6 month break in between, but yeah. Right there with you.

Of course, my situation is made even weirder by the fact that there is a chance (and a fairly decent one) that I might be able to flee the tech industry, go to my dream job, AND make a comfortable amount of money. This chance is dependant on a couple of things, and being patient and playing the waiting game to find out is making me crazy (or crazier), but, the chance is there. I try and console myself with that knowledge when I wake up from another anxiety nightmare of being a cashier at Fred Meyer.

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It should never have made it out of the office.

A PORN WEB SITE??? See, I can see someone (say) putting their own phone number into a catalogue, where the business phone number should be.

But a PORN URL?? That's like work. Except not work.

I can't share how much I earn. I don't know if I'm allowed to, I just can't.

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Betsy, are you committed to that particular house after the kids leave the nest?

Well... that's not as far as I'd like to think it is, actually. That's a little over ten years away. By then, who knows what I'll want?

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