A Blog About My Life’s Lessons

I’m happy to announce that my employee 401k has turned positive for the first time this year! I was very surprised when I saw the data (see image).

To be exact, it is now up 1.2% for year. At one point it was down over 6%.  I’ve been pretty pleased in its performance, considering the broad market was […]

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I’m not a professional stock picker, I follow it more than anything because I don’t have much money to invest in individual stock (Most of my assets are in mutual funds in my 401k). Plus, I have  a poor track record.  Usually when I buy a stock it goes down.  For example, I finally get […]

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Its official, I’m going to be a dad again.
  
Based on the doctors visit yesterday, we are going to have a Christmas baby! That’s right, the due date is 12/25/2008. Now the odds of us having it on Christmas day are slim.  I don’t think our doctor wants to work on Christmas day and neither do we.  […]

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Well, I’m back in the saddle.  I’ve been out of town for 3 out of the last 4 weeks.  To get me going again, I’m going to right a quick post about Craigslist.  If you’ve never used it before, I highly recommend it.  Over the last few years, I’ve purchased a few things on Craigslist (Typically […]

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Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s face has been splashed all over the web and TV these days.  I’ve read a few articles about his predicament.  The more I think about him, the more I think he is a prime example of the type of person I was thinking about when I created this blog (read my “about” page).
 
Until this […]

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We just completed our first family road trip to visit my little sister and nephew.  The primary purpose for the road trip was my nephew’s 5th birthday party as well as to see my sister’s new house. Plus, I want to continue to build on our relationship and the only real way to do that in one-one face time.   
 We […]

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I’m happy to say that as of about 2pm today, my wife and I have been married for 4 yrs.  Man does time fly.  The romantic guy that I am, I’ve planned and exciting night for us tomorrow to celebrate this anniversary. First off, we are going to be baby free :-).  We have a babysitter coming […]

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By no means am I a political activist nor do I plan on blogging each and every day about political issues.  However, I’ve become more interested as I’ve gotten older (not to say that I’m old).  I hope to learn a lot more about the potential candidates during the next few months. My biggest struggle […]

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On my quest to become successful in life and personal finance, I’m always on the lookout for ways to be more efficent with my time when looking for money saving solutions. Sometimes, it takes too much work to save trying to save a few dollars, especially when it takes an additional 30 mins to 1 hr of my time.  One […]

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I sure learned a lesson on Friday (Jan 25th). My wife called me on the phone about 1pm, frantic that our 2006 Ford Expedition was driving funny and that it was stalling at stop lights. I told her to drive it straight to the Covert Ford Dealership.  Thankfully she made it without too much trouble.  […]

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