Well after nearly a two month hiatus again, our faithful(*snort*) dragon is back at it once again. Most of it's been taken up by solo driving across country of course. Though lucky for me, I seemed to dodge the snow that gripped most of the country, and got home right just before the record cold swept through the upper Midwest US. I had to mush ( Read more... )

We had been putting off getting the truck into the shop for what's called an in frame, where the engine is basically rebuilt while still in the truck. We wanted to wait until

• Our state return was deposited into our account.


• We had deposited checks from a legal settlement.

Though when the truck started blowing smoke, we felt basically money or no, ( Read more... )

Financial planning is a pain in the patoot. At least there's funds to do it.

All right. I am SO glad that Libreoffice Base has code modules, because that's what I'm going to need to solve this particular problem ( Read more... )

Yup. Back on the road, and still so much to do. We've got to get some kind of savings plan in place, and I've got a few ideas. I've already created a spreadsheet for our bills showing the weekly, monthly, annual and so on amounts for them. It's mostly just a matter of transferring the right amount to the right account. Other things like ( Read more... )

It's about $10000 less that what I thought. Wow. Really starting to tear through it now.

So, after our last session, I've been coming away with some insights on how to best pursue the issue on whether to become owner operators or not, or even stepping back just to say WTF am I gonna do with my career and writing and all that ( Read more... )

My mother handed me a couple documents today of note.

1. My graduation certificate from kindergarten, dating back to June 14, 1973. How nice.


2. A $25 US Savings Bond dated April 30, 1973. Maybe a reward for successful completion?

So I went to a bank today just to see how much it was worth. It's been tagged at $129.89. That is over 400% interest... ( Read more... )

Inspired by a friend's locked post by luellon. I won't say much about it, other than to also post an article link, since that can be considered public. Here it is.

5 Reasons Money Can Buy Happiness.While I don't quite agree that money can buy happiness per se, it CAN buy the peace of mind necessary for happiness to occur. I still remember having ( Read more... )

My mutual fund firm has no way to log on to my account directly from their homepage. So now I have to dig through and find the URL out of email. Not only that, but Turbotax informs me I can't download the 1099-DIV info directly, so once again needing to manually enter it.

Bugger.