I am at my 30 day travel holiday reflection point. So far it has been an amazing experience and time. I haven’t really looked at my investments, this blog except to fix an issue with Robby, or worried about anything back home. I think I can do this full time although I do have quite…
Category: Financial Odyssey
Greetings From Europe!
I’ve completed 5 Schengen countries in Europe and burned through 23 days doing it so I’ve now moved to a non-Schengen country and will be here for 30 days then moving to another non-Schengen for another 30 days then back to the Schengen zone where I will visit 3 or 4 more countries before I…
Kiva’s Annual Impact Report 2025 Is Out
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…
Another Major Milestone, Autonomous Daily Briefing
I’ve written that I spend a lot of time reading financial news, watching financial news on TV or YouTube or other websites and honestly it has become too time consuming to catch up so I finally decided to do something about it. I used my new, second, AI agent and tasked it with reviewing 65+…
100 Days of Non-War War
Today marks a milestone, the current administration of the Unite States has now been 100 days of non-war war with Iran. I’m not going to go political here since this is a personal finance blog but I am going to discuss the impacts of this non-war on our household budget. Fuel The first and obvious…
I’m Officially Retired (from Corporate Drudgery)
I ended my employment this week. I’ve had enough. Ironically, it comes almost exactly two years from when I wrote this post “Corporate Burnout && Golden Handcuffs” and one year later, I got laid off and headed to South America. Well this time, I hope to be retired from corporate drudgery for good. I do…
Minor Losses Happen – Update on RBLX
Back in January I entered into a collar on RBLX with the hopes that it would rebound and provide an annualized 10% return. Since I wrote that post, RBLX has fallend by 50% or so but I had a collar so my losses were limited to about $250 on this trade. This is what I…
Everyone’s Broke But They Lie About It, Why?
The past couple of weeks I’ve had some strange interactions with people. First, the person pretends that everything is fine when we both know they are financially struggling. The second person knows the first person’s situation but doesn’t want to make a thing out of it so they keep quiet. The two people depart and…
The Best Investment I Ever Made Didn’t Cost Much
The best and most important investment I ever made didn’t cost much in relative terms. What was that investment? It was investing time in educating myself. During our youth, we all are forced to spend time in school. We start in kindergarten, then 1st thru 6th grades, then 7th-8th and then four more years of…
AI And I Agree, Humans Are Stupid
I have been in a world of mental anguish the past few days. It started with setting up my home lab for developing my own apps. So far I have had tremendous success building apps with Gemini and ChatGPT so I decided to take it a step further and build a more robust platform to…