Is 2026 the year you are determined to get your personal finances in order? I have put together a planner that might help you achieve that goal. The planner has 3 monthly components At the end of the planner are several pages to track Fund balances, like savings accounts and sinking fund envelopes. You can…
Steps Towards Moving Away From Cloud Services
With the help of Caleb, I am moving towards more self-hosted services instead of using so many cloud services. This blog is hosted locally and run via a WordPress server. I am using a local Plex server to host my music, audiobooks, movies/videos, and photos. I am even looking at a built-in notes app that…
Pay Day
It’s pay day! No, I still wasn’t paid actual money in exchange for my time due to the shutdown, but I did get a nice picture taken yesterday. Sending it to the utilities company with a Paid In Full note.
Apple Vision Amateur
Like many people, I’d like to have an Apple Vision Pro. But I simply can’t justify the expense. Instead, I purchased the Meta Quest 3S shortly after it was announced. To be clear, I am not a gamer. Despite growing up during the era of arcade games and early gaming consoles, I have never really…
Learning About Bike Gear Ratios
How is it that at 56 years old, I am just now learning about bike gear ratios and proper gear changing techniques? Like many others did, my wife and I purchased new bikes early in the Covid shutdown phase. We felt this would give us an outdoor activity we could do together while maintaining distance from others. We…
E-biking and VR
I have bad knees. Not everyone has the genetic good fortune to be lifelong runners and 26 years of military service sometimes leads to worn out parts. Even biking had become difficult due to the force applied to the knees when pushing off from a stop and climbing hills. So I was left with walking. …
THE DISCOURSE OF VOLUNTARY SERVITUDE
“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” Mark Twain We can learn a lot about the present by studying the past. I recently listened to this episode of Rob Pirie’s “The Cause” podcast during a road trip and immediately found the ebook (along with a good reading of the audiobook) when I returned home….
Matt Whitman: What Do We Do Now?
I had never heard of Charlie Kirk before the events of September 10. Actually, our son is a student at Illinois State University and mentioned Charlie was on campus a few months ago, but I had never heard of him prior to that and had no reason to remember his name past it’s mention by…
Crunching The Numbers
Bookworm Podcast Review of Wild Courage
In episode 222 of the Bookworm podcast, the book Wild Courage by Jenny Wood was reviewed. While I have not read the book yet (although I have added it to my short list of books to read soon), the hosts conversation about the book has given me some things to think about. In particular was…