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A Santa face again. If those are the only two then I'll cut this advent blogging short but we'll see how we go.
The dog's been very itchy lately. She's shedding her fur so it's hardly surprising but she's been nibbling at herself with such a frenzy recently that she got a bald patch on her leg. We've been grooming her a lot but she just keeps nibbling so Mum took her to the vet. He can't see anything wrong with her but gave us some pills anyway. Antibiotics I guess. They do that just in case. ...

Today.

A snowman that looked a bit like a crow man. The carrot nose looked like a beak and the little thumbs made it look a bit like wings so that was interesting.

Still not done anything more for Christmas. Yesterday I dug up the Christmas window stickers. Not actually to put on the window but because I couldn't shut my desk drawer properly. Been meaning to clean that out but it's a pretty deep drawer and I know the mice have been in there so I'll have to disinfect ...

First income distribution, then wage inflation, and now measuring inflation.

Inflation: Noun Economics. a persistent, substantial rise in the general level of prices related to an increase in the volume of money and resulting in the loss of value of currency (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/inflation?s=t‎) In my last post I showed examples of two types of inflation, wage inflation and Consumer Price inflation, but there are several other kinds of inflation, including the ...

Oh boy. December first already. I suddenly thought about it yesterday but by then it was too late. I was thinking of giving you fair warning that I'd be doing this again but it had already gone midnight over here so what would be the point, since it wouldn't really be fair warning?

First one in my calendar this year.

A Santa face.

This year Yuki has one with mini markies in so they're all the same.

We got our first Christmas card from a ...

While writing my last post, I noticed that there was enough data to create an inflation index. Inflation indices are usually created from the actual costs of something over time, and labor is something; although usually the prices of goods are used. The CPI index is derived from the changes in prices of consumer goods. The index is readjusted from time to time to reflect changes in consumer goods. Wages are simply taken as one factor in final prices, so there is not a generally available specific ...