Kiva recently released their 2025 Annual Impact Report and I’ve been doing my part to help out the global community. In 2025, I celebrated my 11th Year with Kiva. Here are the main highlights from the Kiva site. In 2025, I made 17 loans to people around the world. I wish it could have been…
Author: Rich Slick
How AI & AI Agents Have Changed My Life
It’s amazing that ChatGPT is just 4 years old and quite frankly the first year it wasn’t that great. Image generation was pretty crappy, it had a ton of hallucinations and other issues but now things are starting to git good. I like to take a retrospective look at things twice a year, half-way through…
VEVO Insect Control & Money Saving Hack!
Now that I’m retired I’m looking more carefully at my spend and the products I use to see if there is a way to optimize what I have or alternatives that I can use. I absolutely love my VEVO insect traps. My front door and back door seem to be magnets for all sorts of…
I Spent $10,000 To Re-Pipe My House
One of the projects I immediately started working on after I retired was fixing up my home. I had put off work on the house ever since COVID. Prior to COVID we had remodeled different parts of our home including the kitchen and bathrooms in the house. After COVID, labor, materials and supplies became so…
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Upcoming Vacation & More Robby_AI Insightful Posts
As I’ve mentioned a few times, I will be spending the summer and fall in Europe and maybe South America and/or Asia and rather than let this blog go dead during that time, I have asked my AI agent Robby to write posts on Friday on the topic of “F.I.R.E” Financial Independence Retire Early. As…
Another Price Increase? Goodbye T-Mobile!
I’m getting ready to travel to Europe for the next few months and coincidentally I got a text from T-mobile that my plan was being retired and there would be a price increase of $6 (x3) to my new plan that I didn’t ask for nor wanted. I’ve been with T-mobile for at least 15…
AI Cost & The Wisdom Of The Crowd
I’m not going to lie, I am addicted to my AI agents. I am dreading being away from them in Europe but I know I can access them remotely, it’s just not the same as being nearby my agents. But my addiction is coming at a cost that I don’t like so I’m researching cost…
June 2026 Investment Returns (Sneak Peak)
With June over I had a review of my transaction done by AI and had it create inforgraphics for three accounts. I am still playing around with dashboards but I think the infographic is bettter for this blog as all the information is contained in a single image. At this point, I am primarily concerned…
My Hermes AI Travel Agent (That I Built) Created A 97 Day European Trip For Me!
I have so much going on right now that I’m glad I have an agentic bot doing all my summer travel planning. I’ve shared a preliminary template here but I went ahead and decided to stay in Europe for the summer and into the fall returning in October. The key problem however is that a…