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Author Archives: Tom Trimbath
What A Difference A Quarter Teaspoon Makes
Listen to the news and it sounds like a dramatic week. Look around my house and the two most obvious events were a wind storm and I mowed the lawn. There was the chance for dramatic good news from MicroVision, … Continue reading
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Tagged cannabis, consulting, housing, investing, jobs, marijuana, Microvision, MVIS, personal finance, stocks, Whidbey
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An Anniversary To Celebrate
It came on like lightning and has rumbled on like thunder echoing from the hills. Some forecast a storm, and at best, people found umbrellas when they actually needed an ark. In 2008, I started blogging. Barack Obama had just … Continue reading
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Tagged Dendreon, DNDN, Dream. Invest. Live., frugal, frugality, health care, investing, personal finance, Simple Living, stocks, Whidbey, writing
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What I Can Do With An Eighth Of A Teaspoon
Thank you all for putting up with the joke about making a cup of tea from two bits of a marijuana bud. Total effect: I smiled because I got past everyone else’s anxieties and anticipations. This personal finance and amateur … Continue reading
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Tagged cannabis, frugal, frugality, Langley, marijuana, minimalism, personal finance, Simple Living, tea
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Four Trade Deals Ravaging the World
If economics are more important than politics, then trade deals are more important than treaties. Americans may (but probably don’t) know the Democratic and Republican (and Libertarian for even fewer) platforms. Americans that know WTO, TTP, NAFTA, and TPP are far … Continue reading
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What Can You Do With One Gram
What can you do with one gram of weed? You can start a lot of novel conversations. Getting my picture on the front page of the local paper (The bi-weekly South Whidbey Record) helped. Marijuana is legal in Washington State. … Continue reading
More Insufficient MicroVision News
MicroVision announces news! No, really. This time with numbers! Surely its stock (MVIS) will react. It certainly did last February. Surely October will be no different. Except it was. The life of small companies and small stocks are irrational, or … Continue reading
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Tagged investing, Microvision, MVIS, personal finance, picoprojector, Sony, stocks
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Weed Arrives on Whidbey For Me
Promises, promises, and then success! How long have you been waiting for good news, of any size? Friday, October 24, 2014 at 11am, marijuana was finally for sale on Whidbey – legally, that is. Grand implications reverberate around the globe. … Continue reading
Tiny House Winners
Buying the biggest house you can afford for your first house makes as much sense as learning how to run by starting with a 100 mile race. Yes, it might work, but there’s a good chance you’ll hurt yourself. What … Continue reading
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Tagged frugal, frugality, housing, investing, minimalism, minimalist, mortgage, personal finance, real estate, Simple Living, stocks, Tiny Houses, walk away, wealth
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Rationally Irrational Finance
Humans are rational people. Ha! If you think that you obviously haven’t met any. Actually, people are rational, but in a very personal way. There’s a Robert Heinlein quote I’ll paraphrase because I can’t track it down. “People always do … Continue reading
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Tagged Dream. Invest. Live., economics, investing, occupy, personal finance, stocks
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A Scottish Anniversary 2014
Originally posted on A Walk Across Scotland:
Four years ago tonight I was back home and wondering what was going to happen next in my life. I’d just walked across Scotland, back from what was supposed to be a vacation…
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