Personal Finance, Writing, and Blogging
Posted in 31 Days to a Better Blog, Blogging on Jun 18th, 2008
Time to get back on track with my 31 Days to a Better Blog series. It’s taking me longer than 31 days, but that’s not a bad thing. It means I’m writing about other things and doing these tasks as well as I can.
Anyway, today’s homework is to introduce myself to another blogger. Not because [...]
Posted in Blogging, Creativity, Tips, Writing on Jun 18th, 2008
I mentioned last week that I tried reading Getting Things Done, the productivity book that is so popular, but didn’t have time to get through it. There was quite a bit of response around that post so I wanted to share what I took away from the 30 or so pages I did read. Those [...]
Posted in Carnivals on Jun 17th, 2008
Check out the third anniversary of the Carnival of Personal Finance over on Consumerism Comentary. The site is run by Flexo, who is a bit of a celebrity in the PF Blogging world. It’s funny because I just listened to a podcast he was in where he was being interviewed about his blog and other [...]
The other day it hit me that I haven’t written a post related to investing in a LONG time. Not good. Part of it probably has to do that I write about that stuff at work all day long, so I’m probably shying away from it here unconsciously. So today I want to write about [...]
I like playing sports video games. It used to be baseball and football mostly, but soccer is also a sport a grew up playing so that’s always fun to play. Now that I have a Wii, I’m looking at which games I would want to own. I already bought Madden 08 but still haven’t gotten [...]
Posted in Good Reads on Jun 15th, 2008
Rarely do I recommend a specific article or blog post that I find out there, but it seems anytime Michael Lewis writes a new one, I’m doing that very thing. He’s just that good. This one is one near and dear to my heart—it’s about baseball in Cuba. Lewis actually goes out there and watches [...]
As part of my continual effort to do more and more writing-related stuff on this blog, I participated and was selected over at the Just Write Carnival. My post on Finding the Time to Write was selected, along with a few other posts from other people that are related to writing. Check them out if [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Books on Jun 13th, 2008
This book took me a LONG time to get through. It’s been on my sidebar under “Currently Reading” for a really long time. More on that later. But anyway, I finally made my way through it and all of the stories inside. The book is a collection of short stories that are supposedly the “best [...]
Posted in Carnivals on Jun 12th, 2008
Check out the 13th (my favorite number!) edition of the Carnival of Improving Life over at Improved Life. My article about trying to read Getting Things Done is mentioned, so that’s always cool.
There’s a bunch of other articles worth checking out over there so if you like mine, go see why it was picked and [...]
Posted in Finance on Jun 12th, 2008
I’ve been contributing (fully) to my Roth IRA account for a little over three years. At the end of this year, I’ll have around $16,000 total in my Roth IRA. Now that M and I are married and our current lease is up in August, we’re thinking about buying a place. So we’re doing all [...]
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