Update for January, 2010 below:Income (net): $1,668.02 (only one very small paycheque left) Child support: $683.84 (wow, 3 months in a row, still in arrears)Parking: $74.5 ($30 reimbursable) Groceries: $606.47 (OUCH!)Gas: $142.23 (ouch again!) Eating out: $95.77 (keeping it ...
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Generational differences at work
Although I was born in 1965, on the cusp of the transition from Baby Boomer to Gen X, I think the experiences of growing up fairly isolated on a farm, graduating high school in a deep recession, graduating university in another slight recession and my own increasing age puts me more in the ...
My kid is a scam artist
This child boggles my mind. He's set up a "job" at school where he acts as another child's "servant". What does being a servant entail?puts her lunch box in the bin to get taken to the lunch roomputs her agenda in her backpack, and zips it upacts as her bodyguard and protects her by ...
Taleb on f*** you money
Taleb is the author of Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan - here's a quote from the latter book:It was hard to tell my friends, all hurt in some manner by the [stock market] crash, about this feeling of vindication. Bonuses at the time ...
Day in the life of this semi-retired person
As I'm a whole week into semi-retirement, I thought I'd elaborate on that burning question "What do you do all day?" So here's a basic breakdown of how my days have been over the last week:Wake anywhere between 5 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. - no alarm clock required, although I haven't needed one ...
Things are going to look rough this month
Everything is conspiring against me this month. I won't have earned any consulting income, since I never billed any time in December to receive a cheque in January. Not only that, but:a) my stocks are going down :-( Meh - shit happens.b) I only worked part-time in January so have very little ...
A job offer
It doesn't seem fair somehow. I know people in my field who are actively looking for other jobs and unable to find them. I don't want to be working anymore and I get job offers coming in without even wanting to work or making any effort to find a job.On the one ...
