Right now I’m reading a book filled with stories of people who made one or more significant career changes during their lives. One left a high-paying investment banker role to join an NGO. Another worked 20 years for the CIA before leaving to take a very lucrative executive security position at Disney. Others left the…
100% Discount
When ordering dog food recently, I saw that Brooks released this year’s model of the sneakers I wear. Whenever this happens, the previous year’s model drops in price and sure enough, Amazon has last year’s model listed at 30% off. For me, that’s a sweet deal. Instead of paying $130, they are now $90. I…
Buying Peace Of Mind
As much as I detest shopping, especially for something I am not familiar with, I still have to do it on a regular basis. Since I buy 95% of my stuff online, and usually from Amazon, I’ll skim through dozens of reviews on several different products trying to ascertain which item is functional, decent quality…
Round 11
Yesterday I remembered that I forgot to include the window fan I haven’t used in 3 years with my last round of thrift store donations. When I opened the closet to grab the fan, staring me in the face was the yoga mat and the foam roller that I haven’t used in 5 years. Seeing…
Mental Notation
I have been playing the drums again now for several weeks and my foot/ankle seems to be holding up well with no lingering pain, no achilles problems and no plater fasciitis symptoms. I am stoked about this. Since I hadn’t played in over a year, I expected to be rusty and uncoordinated. I was, a…
Round 10
Today I donated two more pairs of pants to the thrift store. The first was one of two pairs of jeans I purchased for dating in 2022. I kept the other pair to wear when it is really cold or on the off chance I ever have another date. I was hanging onto the jeans…
Low Watts
After hearing Alan Watts being referenced on a number of podcasts and recalling an inspirational audio clip of him speaking, when a recent podcast guest recommended reading “The Wisdom Of Insecurity : A Message For An Age Of Anxiety“, I borrowed it from my library. The first 1/3 of the book was an enlightening and…
The Perfect House
I saw these “perfect for singles” homes that Lennar is building last week. If they had a garage and were located in a place I’d want to live, I’d be super interested. I probably won’t ever downsize to an apartment or condo because my dogs are somewhat barky and I’ll never be dogless. But a…
Buy Mistake
I just completed rounds 8 and 9 of purging my stuff. Yesterday I boxed up my dress shoes (bought in 2022 worn twice), 2 pairs of pants (bought 6 months ago, worn few times) and a fleece vest (bought last summer, worn twice) to resell to REI for ~25% of what I paid for them….
Lie-vertising
There’s been a lot of coverage in the news and tech podcasts lately about AI enabled deep fakes because of some recent deep fake porn videos of Taylor Swift and a deep fake robocall from Joe Biden to New Hampshire voters. Apparently AI can generate realistic fakes from publicly available video & audio clips that…