{"id":1536,"date":"2021-02-23T21:59:19","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T03:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=1536"},"modified":"2021-02-23T21:59:19","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T03:59:19","slug":"weeknote-for-2-21-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2021\/02\/23\/weeknote-for-2-21-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Weeknote for 2\/21\/2021"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Blog<\/h2>\n

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I need to budget my blogging time.<\/strong> Last week’s project time was taken up by blog writing, which is not how I’d prefer to use it. I’ve used various time-limiting strategies for my blogging in the past, so I need to revisit them or try new ones.<\/p>\n

Finances<\/h2>\n

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I set up my budget in Quicken.<\/strong> It still needs refinement, but the basics are there. This week begins the March project month, and I’m continuing the finance project. My next step is creating a task list from the advice in my personal finance books.<\/p>\n

The Savage Truth on Money<\/em> is the personal finance book I’d recommend if you only wanted to read one.<\/strong> It’s wide ranging, packed with details, and friendly yet straight talking. Of course, I haven’t read many of these books, so take that recommendation for what it’s worth.<\/p>\n

From Here to Financial Happiness<\/em> is a devotional-style book for people who want to get started quickly.<\/strong> That is the opposite of my approach, so if it’s effective for such people, I wouldn’t know. But I value it for the bit it contributes to my overall understanding of money management.<\/p>\n

Spenditude<\/em> is a slightly confusing examination of three types of spenders.<\/strong> I think it’s really about two consistent approaches\u2014wasteful and frugal\u2014and an inconsistent third one that’s a mixture of the others. My takeaway was that consistent frugality is the way to financial success, but you can still give yourself a little freedom (though they hardly say anything about that, so I can’t tell if they mean it).<\/p>\n

Work Your Money, Not Your Life<\/em> is a mix of career counseling and financial advice aimed at letting you enjoy your work and semi-retire early.<\/strong> I don’t know how it ranks among all books of this sort, but I think it has a lot of advice worth considering.<\/p>\n

The best part of The Bogleheads’ Guide to Retirement Planning<\/em> was that it introduced me to the Bogleheads.<\/strong> They’re a fan club for John Bogle, the revolutionary founder of Vanguard and all around good guy. Here’s a short video tribute<\/a> to him. The book itself is jam packed with details and advice, but it was a slog to get through. It probably needs updating too, but that’s what their wiki<\/a> is for.<\/p>\n

I started watching stock and crypto trading<\/a>\u00a0streams<\/a>.<\/strong> Not for advice or news really, just for the ambience of the live graphs and the chat.<\/p>\n

Music<\/h2>\n

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City pop is my new finance soundtrack.<\/strong> It came up in an unrelated Twitch stream, but right away I found it went perfectly with the trading streams, so I looked up a playlist<\/a>, and the whole week I kept it on in the background of anything I did with finance.<\/p>\n

Housekeeping<\/h2>\n

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I chipped away at my pile of unfiled papers.<\/strong> The pile is gone now, and so I’m one step closer to cleaning the bedroom.<\/p>\n

Spirituality<\/h2>\n

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I did exactly zero Immanuel prayer.<\/strong> I’ll need to find ways to motivate myself and fit it into my day.<\/p>\n

Space<\/h2>\n

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I watched the landing<\/a> of the Perseverance rover on Mars.<\/strong> My current interest in space started with the landing of InSight<\/a>, NASA’s previous Mars mission, so I was looking forward to this one. I was also more anxious about it, now that I knew how risky these landings are. Plus its mission felt more weighty and exciting to me than InSight’s. So I shared the team’s relief and celebration when Perseverance landed safely<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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