Lost in the Crowd, Found in Myself: A New York City Story
A recent fall day reminded me why I love walking around New York City. Had just grabbed a spicy döner and a ginger ale, and headed to the park to…
Social. Work?
I guess I’m doing this now. I know what I’m doing next. Maybe. We’ll see. But I for sure I know what I’m doing right now, which is…writing this post:…
Bye Bye Wife-FI
Symbology...? A few weeks ago my wife FIRE'd from her job. I asked her if she wanted to do a guest post about it, as I guess that's a thing…
Soooo…I was on a podcast??
TL;DR, here’s the link: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/965474e8-0ed6-4527-a513-26a270f7ae31/id/32222587 And the Youtube version https://youtu.be/vNQJeysYsPs The podcast asked for a head shot, so I entered "redhead stay at home dad with beard" in an AI…
Cut Off
The other day, I cut some guy off. Reminded me to try and suck a little less at driving. His reaction reminded me yet again why I’m sooooo glad to…
So…I guess I joined another cult
Mostly Kidding. Kinda Of course the first cult being this whole FIRE/mustachian/ERE community or whatever. You know, the type of thing that when people hear about it they’re immediately revolted…
It all worked out….again.
Shit has been relatively busy around here. As you may recall, we bought a house in Eagleton (a sparkly bedroom community outside the city we previously lived in), but were…
Post Talk Update
Ok, here’s what’s up because I feel like I’ve barely updated this place while I shifted to other sorta related projects: As I mentioned in Help Wanted, I was slated…
FIRE Goals Update: 2 Years of (sorta?)Early Retirement
If you’re just joining us, I worked for nearly 15 years as a cop, but thanks to finding the FI thing almost a decade ago I was able to leave my job. I’d saved and invested enough to in theory never work again, and I left the job 5 years before I vested in a pension worth over a million bucks. Thank God I did, because these past two years have been totally fucking worth it. Let’s get into how this past year has worked out.
Help Wanted
Hi everybody! Short post for today in which I ask for your help. I volunteered to give a talk about Mental Health and FI at a small event later this…