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Am I Financially Independent
I am a personal finance case study. Turn to the back of the new edition of Your Money or Your Life (page 292 of YMOYL I think) and you can find a short description of my life as an FI-er … Continue reading
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Home For Sale Alas
Alas, it has come to this. My house is up for sale. My home is up for sale. Once upon a time I heard a saying, “Never love something so much that you can’t let it go.” Maybe it was … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, books, consulting, entrepreneur, investing, New Road Map, occupy, personal finance, photos, stocks, unemployment, wealth, Whidbey
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My Jobs Report Month 9
I never thought I’d be writing this post. It’s been nine months now. At the end of August I began tracking my job applications. Despite press reports that claim that anyone who wants a job merely has to go looking … Continue reading
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Eager And Anxious Expectations
Facebook (FB) has a $100,000,000,000 market cap? In so many ways that doesn’t make sense to me. People are expecting great things from them. That’s the nature of investing. Investing is about expectations. Use the past to extrapolate from the … Continue reading
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Tagged AMSC, Art, Dendreon, DNDN, Dream. Invest. Live., Facebook, FB, frugal, frugality, GGOX, GIG, GigOptix, investing, Microvision, MVIS, personal finance, Real Goods Solar, RSOL, self publishing, Simple Living, stocks, unemployment, wealth, Whidbey
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Tools And Cobwebs
Themes arise. As a writer I love that. As an intuitive innovator I cheer it. I’ll pour the wine later. I’ll drink tea while I am writing. I happily guest blogged about the tools of my trade, a trade that … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, books, conservation, consulting, frugal, frugality, health care, investing, Microvision, MVIS, nature, personal finance, photos, Simple Living, stocks, unemployment, wealth, Whidbey, writing
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Cobwebs In The Car
There are cobwebs in my car. Okay. It’s spring. Spiders are hatching everywhere, why not in my car? Evidently, they are using it more than me. Spring is partly to blame. So is $4.26 gas. I’m using a startling new … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, bicycling, books, Car Talk, Charity, consulting, energy, Facebook, Financial Integrity, frugal, frugality, fuel, health care, investing, Jeep, Just Keep Pedaling, New Road Map, peer-to-peer lending, personal finance, photos, Simple Living, speaking, stocks, Twitter, Whidbey
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My Nonsensical Realm
My world passed through ridiculous long ago. Now it is in a realm of nonsense. Companies do well, and their stocks drop. Do good hard work, and wonder if I’ll get paid. Apply diligently for jobs, and listen to the … Continue reading
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Tagged 000 Rule, 10, Art, books, Charity, consulting, Dendreon, DNDN, entrepreneur, GIG, GigOptix, investing, Microvision, MVIS, New Road Map, personal finance, photos, Scotland, self publishing, speaking, stocks, teaching, unemployment, wealth, Whidbey, writing
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Collaborating For Causes
The supply of causes has increased. Thank you internet. The demand for solutions has increased. Thank you caring people. I just attended a two day conference called Collaborations for Cause, a retreat for advocates and communicators trying to deal with … Continue reading
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Tagged advocacy, Art, C4C2012, consulting, digital media, Facebook, Financial Integrity, frugal, investing, Langley, Microvision, MVIS, New Road Map, personal finance, photos, pico-projector, picop, Simple Living, social media, stocks, Twitter, Whidbey
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UW MVIS LMRA GGOX GIG
The story of an idea. Okay, okay. It looks like I should finally spend a bit more time describing the most esoteric of my stock investments. GigOptix (GIG) is the company that I usually skip over when describing what I … Continue reading
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Tagged electro-optical modulators, GGOX, GigOptix, investing, Lumera, Microvision, MVIS, personal finance, stocks, University of Washington
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I Like Unlikely Iceland
It will never happen, and yet it did. My friends thought that one of my ideas was ludicrous and that it could never happen. I disagreed. In times of severe economic crisis sacrifices must be made. I suggested that sometimes … Continue reading
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Tagged personal finance, stocks, investing, wealth, mortgage, dark energy, dark matter, debt, unemployment, occupy, Iceland, asteroids, security, engineer, job
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