Living for today - Planning for Tomorrow
Here’s a really neat poster that shows our government budget. You can click “shift” to zoom in and also use the drop down to choose a particular agency. I actually wouldn’t mind having one of these posters, although I’m probably too cheap to spend $28.95 on it.
I have to tell you right up front. The following article makes me sick. I am so tired of the American way of measuring the success of a special day based on how much money is spent on it. I’ve long since been disgusted with the mass hemmorhaging of money during the Christmas season. I think we’ve long since lost sight of the true meaning
Thanks to Nickel for pointing out that Maxed Out has been released on DVD. This is the next movie I’m watching. Here is the trailer for the movie: Here is a 10 minute interview with James Scurlock (Creator of Maxed Out):
Wouldn’t you know it. I stick my neck out a bit and buy this second home. Further, I sink every nickel I’m making in to finishing the place. Then drama starts at work. I’ve been with my company for 6 years and was able to ride out post 9/11 while thousands and thousands of people got laid off. I’ve always been a high performer and shouldn’t have
We are back from Disneyland and I’m happy to report that we had a great time!! My daughter was overwhelmed by the place when we got there but slowly started to acclamate to the place. I haven’t been there for a long time and was amazed at all the changes. One thing that didn’t surprise me was how expensive everything was. We used a few
The last 5 days of work have been brutal. Yelling, screaming, emotions running high. I wish I was joking, but I’m not. I learned a long time ago that it isn’t worth losing your cool, but certainly other people that I work with haven’t learned that. The way some people react, you’d think that people’s lives were at stake. Back in the days that I volunteered
It is about time. I just happened to check my connection speed this morning and found that Comcast had increased both my download and upload speeds. I’m not all that excited about the increased download speed, although it was neat to see the speedtest register up to 20 mebabit down (although the average was somewhere around 10-11 megabit. What got me the most excited was
Lately I’ve been seeing advertisements for Clearwire. Clearwire is a new broadband wireless service that people can get as an alternative to DSL or Cable and it is portable within Clearwire’s service area. It actually sounds really cool. It’s definitely a viable solution for many people that are outside the reach of standard broadband services but I can’t tell you whether it’s a good deal
The first thing I thought about when I read this story is, “That million isn’t going to last long”. This woman found a $10 bill on the ground and then used it to buy lottery tickets. She’s glad she did because she won a $1 million dollar jackpot. The article says that she has 9 maxed out credit cards and $8500 in debt from an
As we have been slowly working on our lake house we’ve been faced with more than a few options on what we should install. Originally we had planned on just putting in wall heaters and baseboards for heat. There is no “in ground” gas available out there and we really didn’t want to have a large tank on the property to hold gas for a