Since FIREing, I’ve gotten a lot more involved in the IRL FIRE community. Big events/conferences in other cities? I’ve attended a few. Local meetups and organized events? Dozens, Dear Reader. Casual get togethers with friends? Bigly times. Not that I suspected or knew otherwise, but everyone I’ve had the honor and privilege of meeting in…
A Day in the Life
If you’re a regular reader of this blog I’m so, so sorry you have such low standards you may have noticed that my last few posts have been . . . uuummm . . . kinda ranty. Complainypantsish. Eyeroll inducing. Well, Dear Reader, today that ends. Huzzah!, you say? I agree! Anyhoo . . ….
I Don’t Get It
Fun fact about your least favorite blogger . . . me! I often—if randomly—come up with inspirations for blog post topics. Could happen anywhere. At home. While hiking. On an airplane. In my sleep. While dangling upside down outside a 10th-storey window, held loosely by my foot by some goon directed by a neighborhood thug….
Skinny Dips
Hello, Dear Reader! It’s been a minute since I wrote a rant post (I think this one was the last one). So, it’s high time for one now. Because you definitely wanna read hear some ancient, embarrassingly over-privileged guy complain about petty things. Right?! Right . . . ? Bueller? Well, I’m the one tapping…
Control Factors (Part Trois)
Hello, Dear Reader! Welcome the third (troisd?) and probly last installment of my series addressing a May 29, 2025, Morningstar article by Christine Benz in which she recapped her takeaways as an attendee and speaker at CampFI Spain earlier this year. In the post, Benz remarked how disappointing it is that some people pursuing FIRE…
Control Factors (Part Deux)
Hello again, Dear Readers! For the 1s of you who are regular readers or happened to stumble on my last post (Control Factors (Part Un)), you’ll recall that in said last post I began a multipart series addressing a May 29, 2025, Morningstar article by Christine Benz in which she recapped her takeaways as an…
Control Factors (Part Un)
Dear Reader, as you’ll shortly discover, the subject of this post is pretty simple and straightforward. But, hoo boy have I had a devil of a time tackling it! I meant to publish last week, but the trouble I was having and my usual procrastination led me to hold off and work on the post…
Risky Business
As I ‘splained way back in the Stone Age days of this here blog, finding out that there are mountains in the . . . Mountain West (a term and region of the country that I assure you, Dear Reader, I was aware of) . . . and discovering and learning about FIRE was what…
Why? . . . Ooohhh, why!
I had lotsa reasons for FIREing at the end of 2021. Cuz I had long tired of didn’t love (or, to an ever-larger extent, like) the work that I did? Check! Cuz a lot of the lawyers I painfully had to endure people I worked with were increasingly grating on me? Yep! Cuz there was…
Health Savings, (An) Account: Part Dos
In my last post I bored you with discussed the nuts and bolts of my experience getting subsidized Obamacare health insurance on my state’s health insurance exchange. An experience that included several challenges. Some expected. Others not so much. I left off at a point where I’d become more knowledgeable about cost sharing reductions (CSRs)…
