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A Good Week In Progress
How about some good news? This week held so much good news that I had to take notes. Enough happened that I had to make some adjustments to me. So, here we go. To all of you who have graciously … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, books, class, consulting, dancing, EFT, FAA, Facebook, frugal, frugality, GIG, GigOptix, HCLE, investing, LinkedIn, LTBH, Microvision, MVIS, New Road Map, NRM, personal finance, photos, Real Goods Solar, RSOL, speaking, stocks, teaching, wealth, WICEC, WOST
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Get A Job Do Less
Good news everybody! I got a job! Add that to the other one and I’m three-quarters of the way to half-time employment. If I keep this up I’ll be able to work a lot less. Yesterday I signed a contract … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, bicycling, books, consulting, entrepreneur, Financial Integrity, frugal, frugality, HCLE, housing, investing, jobs, Just Keep Pedaling, mortgage, New Road Map, NRM, personal finance, photos, Scotland, self publishing, Simple Living, social media, speaking, teaching, unemployment, walking, wealth, YMOYL, Your Money or Your Life
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Words For Woes And Wows
Take notes. If your life is like most, you aren’t bored, incredible changes are rearranging your life, and you can’t count on your past to predict your future. We live in a time of great stories and, as a non-fiction … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, bank fraud, books, Cascades, consulting, Dream. Invest. Live., entrepreneur, fraud, HCLE, housing, jobs, Just Keep Pedaling, Langley, mortgage, New Road Map, NRM, personal finance, photos, Retirement, serendipity, speaking, stocks, teaching, unemployment, Whidbey, writing
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Training And Technology
I felt the earth move under my feet. Well, really, it was the car that moved, the rail car. I’m blogging from Amtrak’s Cascades train heading from Seattle to Portland. It is a trip mixing old tech and new tech, … Continue reading
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Tagged Amtrak, frugal, frugality, HCLE, Mark Twain, social media, speaking, technology, writing
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Gnawing On A Rock
“He’s worrying that like a dog gnaws a bone.” It is good to take time to consider, well, anything; mostly because for many, it is uncommon to take time for contemplation in today’s frenetic world. A dog knows there’s always … Continue reading
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Tagged AMSC, Art, books, Charity, consulting, entrepreneur, frugal, frugality, GIG, housing, investing, jobs, mortgage, MVIS, personal finance, photos, RSOL, Scotland, self publishing, Simple Living, speaking, stocks, teaching, Twitter, unemployment, wealth, Whidbey, writing
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Notice Foreclosure Notice
Yesterday I got the call. The mortgage company called, and in a rare case, I answered. In their usual manner, they delivered the news that they will begin foreclosure on my house on March 17th. I can’t recall their quote … Continue reading
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Tagged books, Charity, consulting, dancing, debt, entrepreneur, foreclosure, frugal, home, house, housing, investing, jobs, mortgage, occupy, personal finance, Scotland, self publishing, Simple Living, speaking, stocks, teaching, unemployment, wealth, writing
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My Jobs Report Month 18
Eighteen months. My job search has gone from regrettable but an opportunity to dive into old passions (before regular job reports), to surprise it was taking so long (at nine months) and putting my home on the market, to temporary … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, books, consulting, entrepreneur, HCLE, housing, investing, jobs, Lottery, LTBH, mortgage, New Road Map, personal finance, photos, Scotland, self publishing, speaking, stocks, teaching, unemployment, wealth, writing
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Choose Your Emotion
“Tom, how’s it going?” With a week like these last seven days, the answer changes with the hour. Luckily, my walk across Scotland was a lesson in picking my emotions. Events trigger emotions as ever, but because of a revelation … Continue reading
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Tagged consulting, dancing, emotions, frugal, frugality, housing, investing, jobs, Langley, LinkedIn, mortgage, personal finance, renaissance, Scotland, Simple Living, speaking, stocks, unemployment, wealth, Whidbey, writing
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Computational Hiatus
Remember life before computers? The percentage of the population that does diminishes every day. Even a brief break from them is an adjustment, even for me, and I remember when typing involved a typewriter. My laptop sits here, beside my … Continue reading
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Tagged books, consulting, HCLE, iPad, jobs, Microvision, MVIS, photos, Scotland, self publishing, speaking, stocks, unemployment, writing
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Frugal Examples
Great ideas come from outside my head. Imagining that we can do everything ourselves, being the ultimate independent, and exclusively self-made person may be noble ideals, marvelous accomplishments, and possibly delusions. As someone recently said, “you didn’t build that“, which … Continue reading
