This is going to be another short post. I seem to have plateaued. My doc wanted to boost me from 5mg to 7.5mg Zepbound dose but I wanted to stay on 5mg for another 3 month cycle. I now have two months of 5mg left in the fridge so I will burn through that then…
Category: Personal Management
The Fed Cuts 50 Basis Points – My Bonds Are Up
The Fed announced a 50 basis point cut yesterday in the central bank interest rate which means the good days of high yield savings and bond rates may be coming to an end but it’s not all bad news. Bonds As bond yields go down, bond prices go up which means that most of my…
Return To Office Mandates = New Layoff Tool
The big news this week is Amazon mandating employees return to office 5 days a week starting in January 2025. Corporate employees will be expected to be in the office five days a week “outside of extenuating circumstances” or unless they have been granted an exception by their organization’s S-team leader, Jassy said, referring to…
Zepbound: My Health Journey – August Edition
This is going to be a short post. I was on vacation for most of August and while I continued to take my medication I didn’t lose any weight. That’s partly good news because we were eating out every single day for most of the month and I had little control over food options. The…
European Vacation Cost $23,000
My wife and I went on a European vacation for August. We visited three countries by plane, train, automobile and ship. I haven’t actually added up all the cost of the trip and I probably won’t do it but a good estimate for business class flights from the U.S. to our first stop, hotels, cruise…
Zepbound: My Health Journey – July Edition
I have now completed six months on Zepbound. Initial results the first 6 months were great, I lost 21.2 lbs. In July, I had to travel for work then vacation and while I still kept taking the medication, I had little control over my food/dining environment so my weight loss slowed. Staying in hotels with…
How I’m Conquering Inflammation & Back Pain
I’ve had periodic lower back pain for 3 decades now. I’ve gone to doctors, therapists, chiropractors, and masseuses to help find the cause or alleviate the pain but the pain has rarely gone away until now. So what was the magic trick? Tiny Health I wrote about starting a journey into a parallel medical ecosystem…
Diversification Is A 2024 Theme: Banking, Health, Tech, Everything
Literally a little over a month ago, I wrote a post titled, “Banking Diversification & Frozen Funds” warning of the dangers of putting all your “eggs in one basket” and this week we’ve had total chaos with airlines, banks, hospitals and just about any thing else that runs on a computer because of too much…
Will Boomers Moving Overseas Ruin Low Cost Options?
I came across this article on Yahoo Finance entitled, “Boomers are leaving America to retire abroad in droves because the U.S. is just too expensive” and my immediate thought was will they ruin the whole point of moving overseas? According to the article, there were 400,000 people receiving social security overseas in 2000 and that…
Are You Prepared For A Lost Decade?
The stock market has been on a seemingly never ending tear. It’s given people a sense that nothing can go wrong and the market will always go up but there is a precedent for a potential lost decade. From 2000 to 2009, the S&P 500 (via SPY) returned -39.53% and while after 2009 things lost…