It’s time for an update on my Zepbound weight loss journey for end of April. This is month 3 of my journey (see links below for other editions) and I am happy to report that I’ve lost 16 pounds total in 3 months. I actually had to redo the math several times since I didn’t…
Category: Risk Management
I’m Buying PUTS on the S&P 500
This isn’t financial or trading advice so don’t do something just because someone on the internet is doing it. Having written that disclaimer, I am buying put options on the S&P 500 for September although May is very tempting too. One of the things I do to protect my investment portfolio is to occasionally buy…
Personal Finance and Data Security
I’ve been an AT&T customer for a while now and a few days ago I received a notice that my personal data was compromised. There is a news story here about it but this is why companies shouldn’t collect data that they don’t need but that’s a story for another day. As a precaution AT&T…
Spain Taxes Are Worse Than We Thought
In my post, What They Don’t Tell You About About Retiring Overseas, I wrote about how my wife and I are avid travelers. With one of our kids now seemingly living in Europe on a semi-permanent basis it makes a great deal of sense for us to consider buying a home somewhere in Europe to…
Which Investment Broker(s) Do I Use?
Over the course of my career, I’ve collected a cornucopia of brokerage accounts. During that time frame, many of these brokers began buying each other out. For example E-Trade got swallowed up by Morgan Stanley, TD Ameritrade is now Charles Schwab. Fidelity is probably one broker that hasn’t been swallowed up or changed names over…
Zepbound: My Health Journey – End of March Edition
War! That’s the only way I can describe what happened to me after I finally got my second month of Zepbound. I rotated from taking the shot on Thursdays to Saturdays because of the fiasco that ensued in February. Note: I had intended on posting this at the end of March but I went on…
Why Central Bank Rates Matter For Dividend Stocks
I’m on vacation this week but I won’t leave you empty-handed. One of the things I monitor closely is what the Federal Reserve does at each of their FOMC meetings. As a matter a fact, I have these meetings in my own personal calendar and I will always take my lunch break around watching CNBC…
Real Estate Rental Properties & Risk Mitigation
We own some rental properties and we are far from being experts in anything related to real estate rentals. We became accidental rental property owners but it’s worked out ok so far without any major issues. I really like the mostly passive income stream that comes from property rentals but it’s not completely passive. Last…
Zepbound: My Health Journey – Early March Edition
It’s been a fiasco! If you hadn’t heard, there was some type of cyber security attack on Change Health that disrupted insurance payments and processing of pretty much anything health care related. The cyber incident happened right as I was expected to get my second shipment of Zepbound. I had been waiting for two weeks…
Zepbound: My Health Journey – February Edition
At the start of this year, I decided to finally do something about my weight. Over the years I kept gaining about 1 or 2 pounds per year then I started working from home and the weight gain turned into 3 to 4 pounds a year to where I ballooned up to a weight that…