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SAHD: Full Throttle.

Posted by By escapingavalon April 25, 2022Posted inAll Posts, SAHD4 Comments
It’s been almost two months since I bounced from full time work, and things keep changing. One of my main post FIRE goals was to be a more involved father,…
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Tough Shit – PTSD : Chapter 4

Posted by By escapingavalon April 12, 2022Posted inPTSD & Tough Shit1 Comment
In the last Chapter we covered the aftermath of me downshifting from fun yet crazy SWAT nonsense to the boring admin world, and how that gave me the space to…
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Meditation, fuck yeah.

Posted by By escapingavalon April 8, 2022Posted inAll Posts2 Comments
Think I briefly mentioned that one of the first things I wanted to do with my now abundance of free time after FIRE'ing was to embark on the 60 for…
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4 Week FIRE update

Posted by By escapingavalon March 27, 2022Posted inFIRE2 Comments
Looking at that calendar thing, it's been 4 weeks since I left my job. Figured I'd fire off a quick update as to the happenings as of late. My wife…
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SLEEP

Posted by By escapingavalon March 20, 2022Posted inAll Posts1 Comment
What follows is an email I wrote to a good friend who has to deal with crazy shift schedules and has been plagued by sleep issues. I was in the…
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Tough Shit – PTSD : Chapter 3

Posted by By escapingavalon March 15, 2022Posted inPTSD & Tough Shit4 Comments
Here be the third installment of this PTSD focused portion of the Tough Shit Series. To sum up the previous two chapters, I had lived a somewhat crazy life for…
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Last Day!

Posted by By escapingavalon March 5, 2022Posted inAll Posts, FIRE3 Comments
My last day was Monday! Everything lined up the previous week and I was able to get out two months earlier than planned. That last week was a bit of…
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Last week?

Posted by By escapingavalon February 20, 2022Posted inAll Posts, FIRENo Comments
Going to take a break from the Tough Shit: PTSD series this week, because That shit is getting heavy, and yeah; I want a break Stuff is happening on the early…
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Tough Shit – PTSD : Chapter 2

Posted by By escapingavalon February 16, 2022Posted inPTSD & Tough Shit4 Comments
Here we continue with this multi chapter series about PTSD and all of the things. To sum up the previous post; I went to Afghanistan with the national guard, had…
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Tough Shit – PTSD : Chapter 1

Posted by By escapingavalon February 11, 2022Posted inPTSD & Tough Shit10 Comments
Welcome to yet another installment in this series, inspired by the awesome Kevin Smith book of the same name, where I attempt to describe some tough shit that led to…
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