It seems the move has given me plenty of fodder as far as writing goes. I have more ideas flying through my head than I ever did when everything was going nice and easy for us! The move has kind of rattled me in a good way and made me experience just a [...]

Having just moved recently, we’ve travelled up the social ladder from very, very, very low, to very low. And the view is a bit better. With the CPA exam firmly under my belt (we found out on Saturday I passed all the sections) and my first “real job” starting on Tuesday, we’ve given [...]

Now I’m not setting out here to write this little bit and make anyone feel dumb. Well, not really. This is really more of a confession because man did I do a bunch of dumb things during this past week. In order to save at least a little bit of face, I’ll [...]

Well, we found a public library relatively close to our new location, I got a library card and we should be good to go. The apartment manager said it takes three to four weeks to get internet setup. I have no idea why. If that really is the case then this library [...]

Shortest version: we’re right in the middle of moving from Utah to Texas, approximately 1,200 miles.
Shorter version: the hotel last night, it was a Days Inn in El Paso, TX on Yarbrough Rd — don’t go there — claimed to have high-speed wireless. It was so slow it was unusable. If [...]

A few years ago I wrote about some of the practical aspects of living within your means. The gist of the article: if you want to successfully live within your means over the long term, you need to have some sort of system in place to record, track, monitor, and evaluate your spending. [...]