Oh crap, not another crappy-happy-sappy Thanksgiving post.Stay with me friends; this won't be too mushy.It's been over 5 years since I quit my job and I still haven't quite adjusted to FI life. I was considering this the other day after cursing out the fingerprint reader on my phone. Fingerprint readers have been pretty much useless to me lately. It's because I've … [Read more...] about Thankful To Be Thankful
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Is Early Retirement Selfish?
When you tell other humans that you're going to retire early, you'll get all sorts of pushback:What if you run out of money?You'll be bored!Are you nuts?!??One of the strange arguments that comes up every once in a while is this:Early retirement is selfish.I don't think so...I'm A Job CreatorBy leaving work, you create a job for someone else. Since you … [Read more...] about Is Early Retirement Selfish?
What If You Had Six Months To Live? (Happy Thanksgiving Edition!)
"We can't really live until we die a little." -Deadpool 2 Hurt Shoulder, Lumpy Ball I went to the doctor last Thursday for a physical and to have my shoulder checked out. Everything was going fine until the doctor said: I usually do a testicle exam. Is that OK? My doctor is a female, but I don't have hangups about these things, so I said: Go for it. I do have a … [Read more...] about What If You Had Six Months To Live? (Happy Thanksgiving Edition!)
Sappy Happy Crappy Thanksgiving Post
We're taking the rest of the week off. Please enjoy my touching, heart-warming, moving, uplifting and nausea inducing prose today. It's Thanksgiving week in America. Thanksgiving is the holiday where we Americans:stuff our faces with even more food than usual gather with family and get drunk fight with family after getting even more drunk watch football more … [Read more...] about Sappy Happy Crappy Thanksgiving Post
I’ve joined the Double-Comma Club!
This post was supposed to be about mushy Thanksgiving stuff and I'll get to that, but something amazing happened on Wednesday that I must talk about first. I joined the Double-Comma Club:Let's go back in time for a moment Sometime in my early 30s, I had a random thought that I've never told anyone. That thought was this: … [Read more...] about I’ve joined the Double-Comma Club!