In direct competition with my desire to get my financial house in order, this week will prove to be a tough challenge. Three of the biggest events that appeal to me will occur this week and I will have to be very restrained! First up is the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. I love cars, especially new ones and concepts of what is…
January 7, 2007One of the things I wish to accomplish in 2007 is to get my financial life in order. I don’t expect to become completely debt free in 2007, but I at least want to have a plan to reduce my debt and start planning for retirement. I have about 30 years plus of productivity left in me before I decide to live in a mobile…
January 6, 2007Looking back on the past year, I can honestly say it was a pretty good year. I always get nervous saying things like that because invariably the other shoe drops and things just snowball downhill. But some pretty amazing things happened to me this year and only a smattering of negatives cropped up. I hope 2007 is the year that things go to the next…
January 2, 2007New Years 2007 It has been a few years since I posted my list of things I have done on New Year’s Eve, so I figured that it was time: 1990-1995 Disneyland 1995-6 Universal CityWalk 1996/7 Disneyland 1997/8 Club Universe 1998/9 Dad’s House 1999/2000 The crazy disco Hollywood sign affair 2000/1 Santa Barbara 2001/2 Working at Disneyland 2002/3 Working at Disneyland/Horrible Club in Hollywood 2003/4-…
January 1, 2007Here are a couple of photos from the Fireball Incident that occurred on my drive from LA to Phoenix on I-10.
December 24, 2006Today I replaced the fuse for my accessory outlet in the CRV. The iPod charger worked just fine, but when I plugged in my phone charger, it blew out again. I think I need to get a new phone charger for the car. I wonder if it has suffered from being stored in the car. After blowing out the second fuse, I replaced it with…
December 24, 2006This weekend I am in Phoenix for a quick gathering of the family and I almost didn’t make it. I knew I should have had my act together and got an earlier start on my trip. I left Friday afternoon around 2:15pm – about an hour or two after what I wanted to leave. The plan was to be ready to go from work and…
December 23, 2006i feel like I have been washing clothes non-stop for the last week or so since my new washer-dryer was installed. Due to its low capacity, I have had to do numerous loads just to try and cut through the mountain of laundry that I have. I might have to break down and send some to the laundromat – especially since I practically had to…
December 19, 2006For the first time since 1994, I have a washer and a dryer in my apartment! Yes, not since the brief stay in Chico do I have the luxury of doing my own laundry. I actually don’t mind doing my own clothes, but I hate doing it in a in the washers that my apartments have or even doing it myself at a laundromat. Since…
December 10, 2006It has been a rough few weeks since my return from Mobile and Mark’s wedding. First out of the gate, the week of Thanksgiving my eye problem from last year re-surfaced. Nothing major, just another stye on the same eyelid as last year and it started almost the same day. Luckily, I had some of the ointment from last time around and it was still…
December 8, 2006