Category: Misc

While this is a personal finance blog, I do on occasion stray into a few tangent subjects.  I hadn’t thought too much about the whole Edward Snowden fiasco but as I watched Edward Snowden tonight on NBC, I began to see this guy as more of a HERO than a ZERO.    I don’t know the…

I called up AT&T Uverse on Monday and was put on hold for about 10 minutes.  When I finally got through I advised them I wanted to cancel my service.  The girl on the phone put me on hold for a minute then came back with some scripts to read me.    She started by stating…

I was reading Money Beagle’s sad story about not being able to find a roofing company to rebuild their roof.   Just this week, I’m getting a brand new roof installed on my house.    Fortunately for me however, I have had great success because I drafted a 4 page list of specifications I wanted on my…

So my oldest child is beginning the journey to enter high school and I’ve never been so stressed in my life.    I had no idea how many different entrance exams existed to get into high schools!    Fortunately, the last of the exams, interviews, tours, and site visits are finally over.   You see my child is…

I took a family poll to see what my peeps want for Christmas.  So far I have a request for a Macbook Air, iTunes gift cards, and not much of anything else.  My wife got braces to the tune of $5,000 so I’m not exactly soliciting her for what she wants this year.   My son…

Well I spent the better part of an hour trying to figure out why I have been getting this error message on my new Apple TV 2 and I think I’ve traced the problem.  I’m writing about it here to hopefully save people a lot of headaches trying to resolve this issue.   There is a…

I can’t believe April 21 was the last time I wrote a post.   I have been gone so long that I hadn’t realized that the domain had expired and I needed to get that fixed so that took a while to get fixed.    I have been literally flying every where since my last post.   I’ve…

So I’m a few weeks into my return to MBA classes and the arguments with the professor have already begun.   It’s funny but the professor was warning about “groupthink” in business and the perils it holds and I couldn’t agree with the professor more but when it came to thinking there *might* be some groupthink…

It seems like travel is my new way of life.   I have been on the road every week for the last six weeks with only this week as a reprieve in my travel schedule.  I’ll be on the road again at least the next two weeks then I’ll be taking a vacation which will entail…