I don’t know how Quicken/Intuit will survive, in less than an hour, I built my own financial dashboard and credit card spend and rewards dashboard and it did everything right whereas Quicken made endless errors last time I used it. Financial Dashboard I have a ton of bank accounts and getting a full picture of…
Category: Personal Management
Built A Bucket List Travel App In Less Than An Hour!
Before you read this post keep ONE thing in mind. I am not a web app developer nor am I an expert in computer programming. I am simply sitting on my recliner while I watch TV in the background and having a conversation with Gemini on my laptop sitting on my lap. This started as…
New Year’s Actions!
I’m not going to write a resolution post because without action, resolutions are hopeful activities. So I’m going to write about my New Year’s actions. I’ve already done some of these things and I am definitely going to do the rest soon. Subscriptions (Canceling & Adding) The most impactful thing to my day to day…
Final Thoughts For 2025
It’s been a wonderful year for me and as I reflect back on my posts for the year I realize there are a few themes at play. Travel My first post for 2025 was a bit of a rant about over tourism in Europe. That post foreshadowed a key them of 2025 for me, international…
Zepbound: My Health Journey – December Year 2
We I’ve definitely flatlined, didn’t really lose or gain weight overall for December. Honestly, it was the holidays and there were just too many treats to eat along with family dinners on the 24th and 25th and because family came in we also went out to restaurants to eat and celebrate this month. Starting Jan…
Inflation Is The #1 Killer of Quality of Life
On of my “secrets” to eating out cheaply has been to visit overlooked ethnic restaurants in my city. I am blessed to have access to many different types of cultural restaurants and one of the place recently visited is one in which I keep detailed receipts because what we order is not actually on the…
Got My Deferred Compensation Funds
Well call it a triple whammy of blessings but I got my deferred compensation funds in one giant lump sum. I was dreading getting this money because it will push me into a higher tax bracket and I honestly don’t know what to do with all the cash anymore. The stock market is over-valued, housing…
Building Apps With Gemini Pro – My Second App
I’m excited to showcase my second web app. Yes, it’s fairly also primitive but you need to understand that I am still not a computer programmer. This is just a baby step into developing more complex things and when I was in high school and even college, I loved comic strips. Even into adulthood I…
Building Apps With Gemini Pro – My First App
I’m excited to showcase my first web app. Yes, it’s fairly primitive but you need to understand that I am not a computer programmer. The last time I coded anything I was in High School decades ago although there was a computer class or two in college that I may have taken. But first, let’s…
My 11th Year Kiva.org Anniversary
My anniversary with Kiva was actually in February but I’m moving it to December because it’s easier to do a year end summary at the end of the calendar year than February. I have now loaned out money to hundreds of people in 48 countries. As of today, Kiva has a limit of 71 countries…