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You Make Me Feel So Young
I sat down to lunch at a local restaurant, felt a bit annoyed, and then realized it was a symptom of youth. I was reminded that you’re only as old as your thoughts, regardless of what my joints are telling … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, computers, frugal, frugality, gas, health care, housing, investing, jobs, millennials, occupy, personal finance, Russia, Soviet Union, stocks, Tiny Houses, unemployment
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Off The Market
See anything different? The For Sale sign is gone. My house, my home, is off the market – for at least a while. Welcome to yet another episode in “Maybe I Get To Keep My House”. After two years of … Continue reading
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Tagged consulting, foreclosure, frugal, frugality, HCLE, housing, mortgage, personal finance, real estate, Simple Living, stocks, unemployment
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You Are Not Your Job
A friend lost a job. How often have you heard that one? How often has it been their fault? Lately, losing a job means a corporation downsized, outsourced, or randomly re-organized. Decades ago losing a job probably meant doing something … Continue reading
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Tagged books, Charity, consulting, entrepreneur, FAFAJ, housing, investing, jobs, LinkedIn, mortgage, personal finance, philanthropy, photos, Retirement, social media, speaking, stocks, teaching, unemployment, wealth, writing
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Ruts Routines Revolutions
April 20th, a fine day for a party. A fine day to celebrate the break from tradition that was the beginning of the Revolutionary War. Most folks thought April 20th, 2014 was Easter. Well, yes; but someone had to spend … Continue reading
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Tagged Bagpiper Don, beer, books, Declaration of Independence, Easter, eggs, entrepreneur, housing, Ideaworth, jobs, Langley, Langley Library, mortgage, MVIS, patriot, Revolutionary War, routine, ruts, Scotland, Sno-Isle, speaking, talking, Thomas Jefferson, traveling rabbit, unemployment, Whidbey
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Utopia Yourtopia Mytopia
I am glad to see that utopia is still more commonly used than dystopia. (Check Google Ngrams and Google Trends for data.) That alone means there’s hope for the human race. But, except for magazines like Yes! and Intelligent Optimist, … Continue reading
Personal Trust Diversification
Here’s my plan. It’s Saturday, the day I tend (with several long lapses in recent years) to post about investing and the markets. Here’s reality. It’s Saturday and the more cyber-astute are reacting to and recovering from Heartbleed, a phenomenal … Continue reading
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Tagged amazon, books, consulting, cryptocurrency, diversification, frugal, Heartbleed, Internet, investing, occupy, personal finance, Simple Living, speaking, stocks, teaching, trust, Vatican
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Tax Inequity Increase
“I paid lower taxes when I was rich.” I said that last year. This year proves it out even more. Income was down about 40%. Income tax was up about 40%. I was traumatized by the numbers. Surely our system … Continue reading
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Tagged books, capital gains, Charity, consulting, entrepreneur, Facebook, health care, housing, income tax, investing, jobs, LTBH, mortgage, personal finance, photos, poverty, self employment, social media, stocks, tax, TurboTax, Twitter, unemployment, wealth
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Googly-eye-ing Disney And Projectors
Smartphones are it! So are tablets. So were laptops. So smartwatches and eyewear and wearable computers shall be. So we can be proud we’re working the trends. You ain’t seen nothing yet, and when the next thing shows up it … Continue reading
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Tagged AAPL, Apple, DIS, Disney, education, goog, Google Glass, Google+, HCLE, investing, Microvision, museums, MVIS, MW2014, personal finance, picoprojector, smartwatch, social media, stocks, STQRY, wearable computers, wearables
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The Day After The ACA Deadline
The deadline passed. Obamacare, ACA, the Affordable Care Act, the great grandiose pack of wonders or horrors depending on your point of view reached and surpassed its quota of subscribers. The wonders and horrors are already being touted. It sounds … Continue reading
Shopping For A Coin
I want to buy some money. That can sound like a silly idea. “Hey, how much will you charge me for that dollar?” And, no, I’m not about to go on about trading in currencies. That’s been going on for … Continue reading
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Tagged auroracoin, bitcoin, cryptocurrency, litecoin, Money and Life, peercoin, personal finance, potcoin, taxes
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