Well, I’ve been slacking and not writing any new posts. To be honest, I’ve tried a few times and couldn’t really figure out much to say. I’m still paying down debt, making progress day by day, and closer to my goal. More on that later. For now…the exercise update.
I’ve continued to do stairs 4-5 days [...]
Due to the nature of my practice, I spend a lot of time hearing horror stories from working class people about their financial struggles. Over the past year things have only gotten worse. One of the worst stories I’ve heard was from a couple living in a tent and struggling to hold back tears.
They began [...]
In my December 4th entry I mentioned that I was enrolling you in my effort to motivate me to lose weight and get in shape by posting several automatically scheduled posts updating my efforts. As I mentioned then, I scheduled entries to post at one month intervals with text stating that I’m a lazy slacker [...]
As I mentioned earlier, Mrs. Japhy and I decided we’d forgo the annual consumer-gluttony this year. No, we’re not anti-Christmas. We just both have pretty much what we want and since we’re downsizing, it didn’t make sense to go buy more crap. Not wanting to be grinches, though, we took the money we would have [...]
It’s Monday morning and I’m sitting in my office feeling like communicating with the seven people that read this regularly. I don’t really have anything important to say. I spent my weekend with a bunch of Burners at Santarchy/Santacon, a rowdy fest involving wearing cheap Santa suits and hitting bars all over town. Though I’m [...]
Let me just preface this by saying I’m really not a hippie. Yes, I do some hippie things, but I’m not the granola-crunching dredlock wearing hippie type. Well, I do wear Tevas, generally am against unnecessary war, and if my hairline wasn’t receding I’d probably try the dredlock thing. Seriously, though, I’m not a hippie. [...]
When my wife and I first began discussing our dissatisfaction with The Great American Dream ™, we thought in the back of our minds that we may be a little crazy for having such thoughts. We then stumbled across blogs of others who felt the same way, and realized before too long that there are [...]
Part of this whole journey was about me losing weight and getting healthy. Unfortunately, I haven’t. I’m still fat. Very. That’s nothing new really. I was always the fat kid growing up. The difference was, though, that I was always very active so I kept things in check. Being a loner, my yearning for solitude [...]
The insurance adjuster just called me and it turns out they’re going to approve the claim for the idiocy I inflicted upon my RV. Yes, I’m stuck paying the deductible, but I’m happy to get it fixed. In any event, it appears that I went into the wrong business, as the repair estimate shows. It’s [...]
Yet another case of Extreme Home Makeover families learning the hard way that, even if money falls out of the sky into your lap, living big doesn’t always end well.
The Wofford family of Encinitas, California, got their house from the show five years ago, but now claim that after struggling for two years to pay [...]
