I’ve gone backwards with Zepbound. I had to travel two weeks for work and while I still took my Zepbound, I was in business meeting that often ended with a business dinner at some fancy restaurant. While I mostly ate salads and refrained from any alcohol, I still managed to gain about 4 pounds during…
Month: June 2024
Going On Vacation
I have had a tough time with all the travel for work so I am taking a vacation and won’t be posting until I get back in mid July. I’ve been living out of a suitcase for two weeks and now I need time to decompress. In the meantime, if you need something to read…
Corporate Burnout & Golden Handcuffs
One of the reasons I started this blog back up after a very long hiatus was the fact that I had a growing sense of corporate burn out. I’ve written about my college days where I worked at pizza places doing a variety of crappy jobs but today I’m going to write about the other…
Traveling For Work
I am traveling this week for work so I won’t be posting new stuff for a few days but I’ve got plenty of stuff for you to read while I’m away! The Two Types of Money People Tightwads and Spendthrifts over at A Wealth of Common Sense. Is Maximizing Credit Cards Worth It over at…
Retiring With Millions At 34 Then Running Out of Money?
There is a great cautionary tale about retiring early, even with millions, and running out of money, from a personal finance blog I read, Financial Samurai and you can read the article here from yahoo finance. In the article the Sam Dogen managed to amass $2.5 million by 34 and decided to retire but is…
Happy Father’s Day
To all the Dads out there, Happy Father’s Day!
Inflation At Home May 2024
The Bureau of Labor Statistics releases their Consumer Price Index report monthly and the one for May came out this week. It’s one of the few government statistics report that I actually look at to see trends and do personal finance forecasting. So what’s happening with inflation? Household Insurance Home owners (and renters) insurance continues…
Flood Insurance Double The Cost
We got our flood insurance bill this week and the cost doubled from around $500 last year to $900 this year. It is important to note that we have never filed a flood insurance claim. Actually we haven’t filed any kind of claim in the 30 years we’ve owned our current home. Our home owners…
My New Parallel Medical Ecosystem
I’ve embarked on a journey to build my own parallel medical system that is somewhat outside the current medical ecosystem which I believe to be fundamentally broken. I’m not talking about alternative medicine such as herbs, teas, magic crystals or copper bracelets but new startup medical firms that have a science based but different perspective…
Air Conditioner Cost About To Skyrocket
I recently wrote about my Mother’s Day fiasco with our air conditioner unit so it got me thinking about what it would cost to replace the unit. Our current AC unit is approaching 10 years and that’s about the time it starts failing or need constant repair of some sort. In looking for the latest…