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My Officially Modified Mortgage
It’s official – I think. The paperwork from the mortgage servicer came back signed and stamped. Let me check for the third or fourth time. Yep. Signatures have been applied. Okay, what’s next? Ah, wait a minute. I skipped a … Continue reading
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Tagged consulting, foreclosure, housing, mortgage, New Road Map, Nine Step Program, personal finance, Whidbey
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Saying Yes To Startup Dreams
A friend called up with a new idea. It will probably only cost a bit of time and effort – and who knows where it will go? I’m honored to be included. New ideas are what we need, and they … Continue reading
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Tagged consulting, Dream. Invest. Live., entrepreneur, GERN, HCLE, investing, Liza Loop, LTBH, MVIS, myHarto, personal finance, social media, stocks, vlogbrothers, vsauce, YouTube
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Weed Changes Whidbey
Today I walked into a store in Washington, bought a mood-altering drug that was recently illegal, and knew I could enjoy it if I treated it with respect. Its legalization has led to the undermining of criminal drug organizations and, … Continue reading
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Tagged alcohol, Bayview, bitcoin, Camano, cannabis, cryptocoin, cryptocurrency, grass, legalization, marijuana, Prohibition, weed, Whidbey, writing
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Stress Socks It To Myself
I did a silly thing. I put on my socks. That’s how I tweaked my back. That’s how I know I’ve been carrying too much stress for too long. A bit of stress is good. A lot of stress is … Continue reading
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Tagged back pain, climate change, consulting, frugal, frugality, gazinga, health care, Karate, New Road Map, personal finance, Retirement, socks, stress, tapping, YMOYL
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Patience Is Precious
As I type it is about as far from Christmas as you can get in the calendar. The turn around day was last week, June 25th. Since then there have been three pieces of good news that seem like presents … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, books, clients, consulting, eyewear, frugal, frugality, LTBH, Microsoft, Microvision, mortgage, MSFT, MVIS, photos, picop, picoprojector, speaking, speaking engagements, stocks, teaching, teaching assignment, work hard
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Semi Annual Exercise Mid 2014
An encouraging characteristic of good habits, rituals, and regular exercises is that their descriptions and rationales don’t change. Welcome to my semi-annual review of my stocks, and an introduction that hasn’t changed much so copy and paste helps me balance … Continue reading
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Tagged AMSC, consultant, consulting, credit card, debt, Dream. Invest. Live., economy, entrepreneur, frugality, GERN, Geron, GIG, GigOptix, health care, investing, Investor Village, LTBH, markets, Microvision, Motley Fool, MVIS, non-profit, personal finance, Peter Lynch, Real Goods Solar, Retirement, RGSE, RSOL, Silicon Investor, speaker, stocks, wealth
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7 Demons Of 7 Days – a guest post
The following is a guest post from an old friend. Alan Beckley and I started Boeing at almost the same time, had almost the same engineering job, both left Boeing early, and have led completely different lives – except that … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Beckley, balance, entrepreneur, guest, invention, Savvy Caddy
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Replacing Housing Anxiety With Mortgage Relief
Relief – and it has only just begun. After a series of phone calls and emails I finally received the mortgage modification package that means I get to keep my house, my home. That’s what I hoped was in the … Continue reading
But Not Yet
As I begin typing, we are less than eight hours away from the Summer Solstice, the beginning of summer (north of the Equator), the farthest the planet gets away from the Sun, and maybe the beginning of much better times. … Continue reading
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Tagged bitcoin, community, consulting, cryptocurrency, debt, entrepreneur, frugality, housing, Intelligent Optimist, investing, Microvision, mortgage, MVIS, personal finance, photos, seed funding, stocks, writing, yes magazine
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Social Media Really
Why? Why Like, Follow, Plus, Connect, or Subscribe to someone? Why not? It’s free, isn’t it? It’s worthless, isn’t it? Skip the pleas from Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, and WordPress and Blogger. They aren’t free, really. They aren’t worthless, … Continue reading
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