Personal Finance, Writing, and Blogging
Posted in Freelancing, Writing on Feb 8th, 2008
I’ve been freelancing for this one client for a few months now. The deal was one big project at the beginning and some small upkeep on a month-to-month basis. Everything was fine until last month, when that upkeep became more than just minor. I spent five hours working on something that usually took around two.
This [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, Investing on Feb 7th, 2008
How we got here: I had seen this book mentioned somewhere a long time ago and forgot all about it. Then a friend of mine lent it to me and when I saw the author’s name, I knew I had to read it. Roger Lowenstein is the author of the superb biography, Buffett: The Making [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 7th, 2008
Here is an interesting post asking the question “What would you do if you found a wallet with a lot of money and no ID?”
There are all kinds of moral implications, obviously, but since something similar had just happened to me, I wanted to discuss some of the other issues involved.
I found a wallet in [...]
Posted in Blogging on Feb 6th, 2008
I heard back from my work today and they told me it’s totally cool to continue writing on my blog despite it being kind of similar to what I’ll be doing for them.
But it’s great news, as I thought I would have to abandon something I’ve really grown attached to and am really excited about.
The [...]
You may notice this week looks a little like last week in terms of the posting. Yesterday I posted the recap on how that week went (I was trying to post less but make it “better”) but this week it looks like I’m also posting just once a day.
That’s for a different reason.
I started my [...]
Posted in Blogging on Feb 5th, 2008
After discussing the idea with some other, more established bloggers, last week I decided to make a conscious effort to write fewer posts of “higher quality,” whatever that means. In practice, this meant writing just one post per day, as opposed to the usual two or sometimes three posts per day I was writing before.
Believe [...]
Last week M’s car had a pretty bad flat tire so she took it in to see if it was patchable or if she needed a new one. The guy at the shop told her that her tire was completely punctured and she would need to buy a new one. That sucks, but not such [...]
Posted in Tips on Feb 3rd, 2008
I filed my taxes last week, as soon as I got all my relevant paperwork in the mail. I’m one of those people that hates having things drawn out over a long period of time, so as soon as I can get it over with I file my taxes and can ignore all the chatter [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on Feb 2nd, 2008
How we got here:
This book has been mentioned everywhere and was on tons of the “best of” lists. It’s also one of the books I committed to reading for this year.
There’s a book of short stories out there called Jesus’ Son. According to critics, it’s a fantastic book. According to my friends, it’s also a [...]
As I mentioned earlier this week, reading is one way that helps me brainstorm new ideas. It doesn’t have to be something new, it just has to be something interesting. So yesterday I was going through Ramit’s blog, Iwillteachyoutoberich, poking around some of his old posts looking for something interesting. For those that have never [...]
The Snowball by Alice Schroeder
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