Archive for April, 2006
Pictures from New Orleans
I wanted to share a few of the photos of life in New Orleans. They are a long way from “back to normal”. Each small picture links to a larger one. And if you’ve got broadband and want to see what it’s like driving down the street down there, check out this video: http://www.everybodylovesyourmoney.com/images/MOV06477.MPG Gas [...]
Grateful For Our Good Fortune
My wife and daughter have spent the last week in New Orleans visiting her parents. They have lived down there for about 7 years due to my father in law being relocated to work in aerospace down there. If you’ve been reading the blog for awhile, you might recall that I blogged a bit about [...]
We Are a Nation of Optimists
On the subject of things that don’t seem to make sense……. Kiplinger has an article about how consumer confidence is at a 4 year high. I confess. This just doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. Gas prices are at an all time high, interest rates are rising which could have multiple impacts on [...]
Paying to Store C-R-A-P
One of the many mysteries in the world is why people will pay well over $100 per month to store items that are barely worth that amount. What am I talking about? Well, public storage units, of course. Public Storage is a booming business! It never ceases to amaze me to see what people store [...]
Hey Little Kiddie, Wan’t some Credit?
They can’t vote, heck they can’t even join the military. Don’t worry though, they can start digging themselves a deep hole while they are still in high school. While I’m okay with someone under 18 learning to use credit with the help of their parents (assuming that their parents are good with money), I’m not [...]
Glad I’m Not Rhonda!
MSN article highlighting adjustable rate mortgages and rates of foreclosure. One thing that caught my eye. Rhonda took a two year adjustable rate at 7.8%? Can you say “robbed”? I’m guessing she must not have stellar credit. http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/Banking/Homefinancing
Lot’s Happening Here
It’s been a little quiet on the blog posting front the last few days. We celebrated the Easter holiday at our house so there was plenty of preparations for that, and what has really kept me busy is that I took a new job within my company. It should be more exciting and a completely [...]
Don’t Celebrate Too Early
There are just too many parallels between this 20 second video and saving for your retirement: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7195110930084047467&pl=true
Arrested Millionaires, Internet Porn Millionaire and Something for the Rest of Us
http://www.tampabays10.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=28662 Okay. What the heck. What’s wrong with you Alex? You win the lottery and then get arrested for not paying taxes on it? Did you really need the extra tax money? I mean, I think I could live pretty well on $660,000 a year. I’d call it a nasty case of moronitis! http://services.silicon.com/itoutsourcing/0,3800004871,39158081,00.htm Outsourcing [...]
It’s New To You!
Every once in awhile, I like to go back and find a post from the early years. Oh, okay, the early months. This post is back from August and was actually first posted on the blogger site. Unfortunately, when I converted the site here, I lost all the comments, (this post had a lot of [...]