Someone on the planet made a very big mistake. More on this in a few weeks.

So this morning I see Trump is rolling back all the laws enacted to prevent people from getting conned like they did in 2008. And I wondered "why ( Read more... )

I have to wonder why people would be upset or concerned or protesting Trump's picks. He won the election fair and square, so he can pick whomever he wants. If you don't like it, vote for someone else.

Or just vote. A lot of people didn't bother to vote. So there we are...

I love the fact that the spoils system is back after close to 150 years of it being gone. Even more interesting is how it vanished in about a month, without any real question or comments. Now you just reduce people's salary to $1.00 that you don't like and keep it there till your man (woman? Oh please, white men need jobs!) gets in, then raise it ( Read more... )

That was the sound that $5,000 makes as it leaves my checking account and leaves me at very low levels for a week ( Read more... )

Prius main battery blew up this morning. Great. So now I can either pull the battery and swap the bad cell, or just buy a new car ( Read more... )

Note: I'll start this by saying that Vegas is not normal. When you're partying all weekend long and a large hacker bacchanal looks tame due to the lack of liquid nitrogen fog, you are in a not-normal world ( Read more... )

Yesterday afternoon I needed to get some hardware parts. Specifically a pair of bearings and a simple chain master link. Stuff that every hardware store would carry ( Read more... )

Wow....

Just... wow.

Well, I've made the decision; we're refinancing Boo Manor into a 15 year at 2.875% interest loan for about 140,000. This will net us $25,000 cash at closing that will be used to completely wipe out any and all credit card, secured loan, and unsecured debt we may have. Everything goes to a clean slate. And it will knock down our monthly payments by ( Read more... )