Great laptop, happy wife, no debt

Yesterday was my last day at my old job, and a simply outstanding day for [...]

Open a college savings account anyway

I changed my mind and opened college accounts for each of my three kids. Up to now, I’ve been thinking that I shouldn’t do that until I was already maximizing my contributions to every tax advantaged retirement [...]

Paid myself first

Last year was the first year I’ve ever managed to pay myself first! Almost every book tells you to do that, to take a certain percent of your income and sock it away before you pay the rest of your billsI spent much of this lovely Portland day doing my [...]

Accepted a job at Dotster

Yay! I’ve accepted a new job at Dotster.com. This means I won’t have any period of unemployment at all.

In fact, with severance and PTO payout, this is turning into a windfall month. There goes another chunk of debt for me.

This was the most interesting jobsearch in ages, since I’m a lot more [...]

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