So I haven’t even finished putting away my luggage from my last trip and I’m already making plans for the next one.  Well, the next few.  In the past few days, I have booked hotel rooms for three trips, registered for a race, and will probably register for another one soon.

The first trip planned is [...]
2010 03 11

I guess I should have been more clear that I was on vacation over these past few days!  Whoops.  I was just so excited that I forgot to remind everyone to not worry, that I was just out of town and not worrying about blogging.

Sadly, the trip was a bit of a bust.  This was [...]
2010 03 10

Excellent month for my net worth!  Up 2.93%.  This month, that change is due to a lot of little things.  My tax return came in, and I dropped most of that into savings, but even without that, I managed to save a good amount of money this month.  Little bits here and there add up. [...]
2010 03 03

Is anyone else sad that the Olympics are over?  I found myself watching more sports over the past few weeks than normal, like most people, I think.

I think my new favorite sport is the winter biathlon.  Cross country skiing combined with rifle shooting?  Awesome.  Ski really hard, then stop and shoot at a target.  Miss, [...]
2010 03 01

The office is a bit slow today, so my coworkers got into a big conversation about marriage (I think it may have started with Tiger Woods).  That morphed into a conversation about family finances, and it was very eye opening.

One coworker thinks that when a couple gets married, each person should put a percentage of [...]
2010 02 26

I was trying to come up with an idea for today’s posts, so I tried to think of some stupid financial thing that I did recently.

And I couldn’t come up with anything.

Of course, that’s good.  But it makes for some boring blogging.  Clearly, I need to go out on some sort of a spending binge. [...]
2010 02 23

Last week managed to get away from me.  Work got kind of crazy when people finally caught up after all the snow.  While it was kind of fun to have a few snow days, we’re definitely paying for it now.  I’m hoping this week isn’t quite as bad.

Over the past few weeks, I’ve gotten a [...]
2010 02 22

Hope everyone enjoyed Fat Tuesday yesterday.  I celebrated by running sprints at the gym.  I don’t do anything the normal way, it seems.

Anyway, the end of Fat Tuesday means that today is officially the beginning of Lent.  I was raised Catholic, so for me, the idea of giving something up (or doing something to better [...]
2010 02 17

Back to work today.  Looks like things are slowly getting back to normal, though the roads are still a mess with giant piles of snow.  I’m hoping the sun will help melt some of it over the week so I can get outside to run this weekend.  I’ve got a ten mile run scheduled in [...]
2010 02 16

So I finally got back to work on Friday.  It was an insane commute, and of course, maybe 15% of my coworkers were there.  So I chatted a lot, cleared out e-mail, did a few tasks, and then sat around.  When you go on vacation, it’s normal to come back to a lot of work, [...]
2010 02 15