Dear Reader, I’ve bored regaled you with many, many a few stories on this here blog about how I’m . . . not so bright. Of course, there’s other stuff that makes me me, too. For example, I have a staggeringly awful sense of direction. And a head-scratchingly intense interest in weather. And let’s just…
Drive Time
Once upon a time, I worked. Full time even. I worked pretty hard, too. I taxed my brain. I worked after traditional hours on weekdays. I sometimes worked on weekends, too. And, because I’m an idiot, I had years in which I didn’t take all the days off to which I was entitled. Most of…
Bougie Woogie
There’s a few things that can be said of me that would quite rightly elicit a “Yep. That’s about right” response. Like that I’m staggeringly dim-witted. And that I’m highly impatient. And that I’m cheap frugal. But another, I think, is that I’m pretty low-maintenance. Especially for someone my age and in relation to almost…
Compare and Contrast
I ended my last post—about the second-best money I ever spent—with a reference to the best money I ever spent: that being what I spent to hoodwink woo and marry The Missus. I didn’t explain why that was the best money I ever spent tho. Welp, time to do that now, Dear Reader. Let me…
The Second Best Money I Ever Spent
The U.S. stock market was in a record-long bull run at the close of 2021. Despite some wavering in the fourth quarter of 2021, it mostly still was chugging along. Then I FIRE’d at the end of the year. . . . And apparently ruined everything by doing so. Sorry, fellow investors! Da’ bears See,…
Clear and Present
I FIRE’d for lotsa reasons. Most are the same as those for many others in the FIRE community. To not have to work (for someone else). To have control of my schedule. To be able to focus on leisure and health as much as I wanna. And so on. No one reason seemed particularly more…
Environmentalism on FIRE
People confuse me. Americans confuse me. I guess what I’m trying to say is that I’m confused. Easily confused. Why am I bringing this up you ask, Dear Reader? Well, because I’ve long thought about how FIRE and lowering one’s carbon footprint go (or at least can or should go) hand in hand. That’s because…
Poor Man, Rich Man
A few weeks before this blog post was published, Fox News unceremoniously fired Tucker Carlson, the host of Fox’s Tucker Carlson Tonight television program. Effective immediately. Shooting stars Adore Love him or despise hate him, Carlson was maybe the shiniest star in Fox’s universe. By the time of his exit, Carlson had become a powerful…
The Thrill Is Gone
“Wow! What a setup!,” I thought. I get to do only the type of work that I generally enjoyed during my working career. I have a cap on the number of hours I’ll work that I set and that’s so low that I can easily do the work and not have it materially impinge on…
We’re Playing Different Games
I and the rest of The Family live a good life. I count my lucky stars every time I think about this. We’re financially secure, live in a nice home in a beautiful part of the world, have our health and good family and friends, and do fulfilling things daily. To boot, (at least for…
