Personal Stuff


2016 Goal Check In: July Results

A few small goals done, two new ones added, and continuing to plod along on the financials and made minor progress elsewhere.  Wish I was getting more of the house goals done though… Financials Pay off the $5,000 personal loan I took out to replace the flat roof Get mortgage […]


2016 Goal Check In: June Results

Only two goals done this month and added a few more on the basis of my new overall plan for improving the cooling/heating situation in my house without getting central HVAC.  Really need to work on knocking out some of those smaller goals :-/ Financials Pay off the $5,000 personal […]


2016 Goal Check In: May Results

With an upcoming vacation, the iPad, car stuff, etc…new goal for finances that makes me less than happy to need.  Stress has had me slipping back into emotional eating, undoing a little of my weight loss, though still below what I started the year with (and well below what I […]


Of Cars and Things

So, in random news, I am tentatively making plans to replace Luna (my 2003 Malibu; less than 74,000 miles) in maybe a year or so. If I do so, it will be following the Suze Orman rule about not being any car you need more than a 3 year loan to […]


New Tablet, Chibi Gin, Revealed

I finally decided on a tablet last week and went to pick it up Friday.  So which one did I finally decide on? Saturday I picked up a Targus 3D case (mine looks slightly different, with a nice magnetic latch, so maybe an older version of this one, but I […]


2016 Goal Check In: April Results

Financials remain on track, another goal cancelled, a little progress on some, and I added two new goals.  Also got going on one goal before I could even put it on the list: give my laptop an upgrade with a new SSD and max out the memory (parts ordered anyway), so […]


Tablet Considerations

I currently have an iPad 2 (yes, 2). It was bought somewhere around June 2011 for a former co-worker,  then conveyed to me the following year after said co-worker retired.  It’s a 64 GB, wi-fi only model.  For those who may not recall, the iPad 2 features Apple A5 (which […]