FIRE Drill: How Getting Shot Gave Me a Taste of Early Retirement
Ten years ago I took my first paid sabbatical. Though accidental, it was freaking great. Recently the Mile High FI podcast had Paula Pant and JD Roth on, and they…
Tactical Dad, Substitute Teacher, Delivery Dude: My $5,000 Odyssey to the FSA Promised Land
We qualified for it this year. Yay? I guess I haven't told you I had a weird goal this year: to make $5000 of earned income. Why? So we could…
The Guilt of Early Retirement (And how to slap it in the face)
Less guilt, more awesomesauce.
FIRE Life Update-Working?
More work, less retire Holy heck, it's been a bit since I did a straight update post. Actually, it's been a bit since I've done any post. You know why?…
Vader Reply
Brevity is not my strong point. To quote the great metacognitive philosopher Britney spears-”whoops, I did it again”. A reader named Vader posted a few comments with some questions. Some…
Where the Hell Have I Been?
Vacation and Work, that's where. It's been nearly a month since I wrote anything over here. Thank God I'm not trying to monetize this thing, as I'm sure my sporadic…
We sold $100k worth of stocks! Are we still FI?
We sold a bunch of stocks to spend more on what we value. Here we’ll explore what this means for our financial situation.
The best (and worst) thing about Early Retirement
In early retirement, if you have a bad day it's your fault. This is no different than working life, but you no longer have distractions and scapegoats which make it easy to blame it on something else.