Why not add a master catalog list of every post I have written for this site? All in one place so you can scan for something you might be interested in.
I will not add in all of the ‘monthly net worth/ update type‘ posts.
Each entry has a date of publication and a general subject tidbit. You may need to use the back button often as I am still an amateur at all this.
Happy Hunting;
| Post Title | Post Date | Cliff Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 3 Card Monty | 05/2017 | Trying to discern between the different classes of rental property. |
| 4th Guest Post, A Prepper's Perspective | 06/2018 | Laying the groundwork for why we all should be a little more into 'rational preparedness' |
| All For Naught | 03/2017 | What goes in to creating a new post. Includes a cool thing I bet you did not know. |
| All the Crazy Sex at FinCon19 | 09/2019 | Has to be seen to be believed! |
| Another Guest Post, This Time About Law School | 10/2017 | How to chose a law school and why it doesn't matter |
| An Interesting Number | 12/2017 | How to calculate your Lifetime Wealth Ratio |
| A Problem Like Maria | 02/2017 | In-law Albatrosses and other unwanted fetters |
| All That Glitters | 03/2018 | A peek inside the world of amassing precious metals |
| Are We Compulsively All Collectors? | 10/2019 | Another trait all FIRE types have in common? |
| As We Enter Our Third Year Blogging | 02/2019 | A recap as we complete 2 years of the blog. |
| At The Nut Bar | 12/2017 | My time in Great Lakes Navy Boot Camp |
| A Good Problem To Have | 02/2017 | Inheriting a paid off house, what now? |
| Budget Bungles Money Muddles And Fiscal Flubs | 10/2017 | The title says it better than I can |
| Blogger Help And Hints | 01/2018 | Tips I have picked up along the way for neophyte bloggers |
| Building An Empire | 10/2019 | Ongoing data of yearly net worth side-by-side |
| By Long And Winding Path | 02/2017 | 4 part background story about me and mine |
| Capitalist Pig that I Am | 12/2019 | Fantasy exercise is space age capitalism |
| Cool As A Cucumber | 10/2017 | What to do in a natural disaster type situation |
| Cars I Have Loved | 03/2017 | MY vehicular history along with color commentary |
| Crying Over Spilt Money | 10/2017 | Some of my biggest money go bye-bye scenarios |
| Current Paychecks | 03/2018 | Open and Notorious Current paystubs |
| Digging Down on Our College Funds | 10/2018 | The current state of our kid's college funding. |
| Disturbing FIRE Trends | 02/2019 | Problems creeping into our little world. |
| Dividend Greedy 2018 Money Moves | 01/2019 | Year end dividend totals and stock moves for 2018. |
| Dividends Over 10 Years | 08/2019 | Graph of a Decade worth of dividends. |
| Do As I Say Not As I Do | 03/2018 | Philosophical post about child labor/environmental differences between the 1st and 3rd worlds. |
| Da Budget | 04/2017 | Comprehensive view of our monthly money in/money out |
| Destination Wedding, Antigua, Guatemala | 11/2018 | Our lovely time in a lovely place. |
| Digging Down on our TSP | 08/2018 | Exploring the Thrift Savings Plan |
| Don't Worry Little Donkey | 07/2017 | How to tackle the money boogeyman in your life |
| Early Jobs; Restaurant Subculture | 02/2019 | Breaking down the restaurant workplace subculture. |
| Early Jobs 2; The Customer Always Sucks | 03/2019 | Maybe you don't get a hotdog mother f$&%er! |
| Early Jobs 3; Who's Using Who? | 04/2019 | I used them and they used me. |
| Early Jobs 4; Jobs You Love | 06/2019 | Oh How I wish they would have paid me more. |
| Early Jobs 5; All The Rest | 07/2019 | So many jobs involving pizza! |
| Fair Winds and Following Seas | 09/2018 | Reminiscing about my time in the U.S. Navy |
| Flying For Free To Fincon | 04/2018 | How I complained my way to a free trip. The Art of Complaining. |
| Fortune Favors The Bold | 09/2017 | Sacking up and pulling the trigger, or not |
| First Jobs | 02/2017 | The very first two times I knew I was an entrepreneur |
| Frugal Not Cheap Or So I Keep Telling Myself | 09/2017 | Looking for the light between these two kids slow dancing at the budget prom |
| Fund Rates | 01/2018 | For you masochists, the fund rates I currently pay |
| Gold vs. Goods In A Collapse | 05/2018 | Which is favored and under what circumstances |
| Growth of Retirement Savings | 07/2017 | Historical growth rates for all of my various retirement vehicles. |
| Guest Post, What's You Got In That Bag | 08/2018 | Different types of 'go bags' and their gizzards |
| Henchmen Worldwide Inc. | 01/2019 | Other people's loyal armies of henchmen. |
| I Bet You Need A Will | 03/2019 | How to set up a will, easy - peasy. |
| I Do not Deserve to Own a Boat | 01/2019 | The agony and the ecstasy of boat ownership. |
| I Don't Deserve A Boat Part 2 | 01/2019 | Really, I do not deserve to own a boat. |
| I Don't Wear A Watch Anymore | 04/2017 | My changing relationship with technology |
| I May Have A Problem With Food | 05/2017 | My relationship status with dining out; it's complicated |
| I'm Out There Jerry | 04/2018 | And I'm loving it. First podcast interview |
| I Used To Be The Google | 11/2017 | Sad old man relenting the loss of his place in the world |
| Is It Wrong To Suggest That Chickenpox Builds Character? | 07/2019 | Ramblings of a sad old man. |
| It Gets Easier (FIRE) | 01/2020 | Letting momentum take over your FIRE progress. |
| Let Fly The Dice | 06/2018 | Casting off doubt and moving forward with plans, if your spouse will let you |
| List Happy | 09/2017 | The beauty of keeping lists, my oldest friend |
| Love The Town You're With | 06/2017 | Coming to terms with the green grass around you |
| More Tales from the Crimeside | 03/2019 | Assorted tales ensue at the Public Defender's office. |
| My Army Of Loyal Henchmen | 06/2017 | Tireless crew of shady helpers who worship the very ground I walk on |
| Monthly Budget With Sankey | 12/2017 | Sankey Diagrams are neat, enough said |
| More of the Good Old Days | 10/2018 | Old man on the porch, yelling at kids. |
| My First Guest Post, 3 Enemies Of Fire | 08/2017 | Your Dreams have consequences, we can't all FIRE |
| (Blogging) Mistakes I Have Made | 04/2017 | There's been a few, dare I say some humdingers |
| Money Stories - One for One | 05/2019 | One for bragging, one for laughing/crying. |
| Mos Maiorum | 08/2017 | My Life's Philosophy. The Latin for Troth |
| My Credit Card Game Is Tight | 05/2019 | Shaking down the Man for all he is worth. |
| My Money Map | 09/2017 | Map it Out and it will show you hidden things |
| My Personal FIRE Story | 12/2018 | My Personal FIRE Story. |
| My Prepping 101 Guest Post | 05/2018 | From the top, everything you need to know, prepping for non majors |
| My Windfall And Me | 04/2017 | What to do with a $132,000 windfall |
| My Wish List | 03/2017 | What I would do if I had the money and permission |
| My Swan FIRE Prowess Numbers | 08/2017 | Just click on in to find out what it means |
| Nobody Wants Your Wedding China | 02/2018 | Gen X bitching about Boomers and their 'stuff' |
| Of All The Gin Joints.... | 04/2018 | Ranting about the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program |
| Obligatory Start A Blog Page | 03/2017 | Often imitated, never duplicated |
| One List to Rule Them All | 12/2018 | How to one up the insurance industry concerning your stuff. |
| Paycheck History | 09/2017 | Open books for 10+ years of paycheck history, ups and downs |
| Paris, France | 08/2018 | A visit to Gay Paree |
| Passive Income | 02/2017 | In all of its forms, in all of its glory |
| Precious Metals | 02/2017 | A passion for gold that only a dragon would understand |
| Puerto Rico My Biggest Travel Failure | 06/2018 | I went to San Juan, but did I really go to San Juan? |
| Peering Through The Legal Prism | 03/2018 | What law school is all about from top to bottom |
| Paths We Choose | 05/2017 | The different paths available to a lawyer |
| Real Estate Investing | 02/2017 | Laying out the plan for acquiring rental properties |
| Retirement Master Plan | 06/2017 | THE master plan to the promise land |
| Retirement Savings Per Check | 09/2017 | How much gets squirreled away from each check |
| Redneck Riviera Spring Break | 05/2018 | My time with the family in the Florida Panhandle |
| Roman Virtues | 05/2019 | The Public and Private virtues of Roman Life. Because, why not? |
| Running the Numbers on a Property | 12/2019 | How I figure out if I want to buy a rental Property |
| Salary Add-Ons | 01/2018 | All the various goodies that attach to our base salaries |
| A Slice of Every Pie | 11/2019 | All the various types of assets in my little empire. |
| Slouching Towards Bethlehem | 12/2018 | Everybody should know one poem by heart. |
| Soldier In A Righteous Army | 05/2018 | My time with the Cook County Public Defender's Office |
| Student Loan HellMouth | 02/2017 | The quagmire of being $220,000 in debt |
| So We Built A House | 03/2017 | Step by Step of buying/building a house from scratch |
| Tales From The Crimeside | 08/2018 | Lawyer stories from my days as a PD |
| The Art Of Market Timing | 05/2017 | Lessons learned from the fuckery of the stock market |
| The Business Deal | 02/2017 | The first time I tried to use leverage to make profit, it kinda worked |
| The Big Easy | 04/2018 | New Orleans before Katrina |
| To Blog Or Not To Blog | 11/2017 | Honest answers of why I got into this whole thing in the first place |
| The Cottage | 02/2017 | Crown jewel of the empire |
| The Cottage Renovation | 03/2017 | The cottage wasn't always 'nice' |
| The Little Red Train to Tijuana | 02/2018 | Misadventures in Mexico. |
| The Makings of a Real Movement | 11/2018 | Why this FIRE thing really has legs, a movement's criteria. |
| Thulsa Doom On Personal Transformation | 11/2017 | Like a diary entry of an angsty teen |
| TEOTWAWKI | 07/2017 | The End Of The World As We Know It |
| The Floundering Business Deal | 06/2018 | Choppy waters ahead for my fledgling business deal |
| The Finish Line | 01/2018 | Final numbers I would need to see to call it quits |
| The Good Old Days | 01/2018 | Old man on his front porch bitching about kids these days |
| The Kingdom In My Head | 06/2017 | Dreaming about how to set up generational wealth |
| Travel Log | 02/2018 | Trips I have taken and their high/low lights |
| The Right Pig? Buying A Small Business | 07/2018 | Trying to seize the next piece of the FIRE puzzle |
| The Runes of the Elder FUTHARK | 10/2019 | Delving into the 24 Runes of the Elder Futhark |
| The Simple Plan To Financial Security | 07/2018 | A general, but thorough overview of HOW TO FIRE |
| The Terrorist, The Girlfriend, My Sister & The Homeless Man | 06/2018 | My sites one and only guest post, you will see why |
| Things to Do in Denver If I Die | 10/2018 | Master list of all the things my wife needs to know if I die. |
| The Time Machine | 12/2018 | Thought experiment number 3. The life Mulligan. |
| The Tortoise and The Hare | 11/2019 | Slow and Steady Government worker vs. Ladder Jumping Hare. |
| Uncle Rico's Rather Dire View of the World in 2040 | 10/2019 | Thought experiment on the future of our economies. |
| Unplug And Unwind | 05/2017 | Let go of the device and listen to the sweet sounds of nothingness |
| VRBO And Beyond | 07/2018 | Using the VRBO platform to make money on a property. |
| Viva The Revolution | 06/2017 | Igniting the FIRE fire, to the ramparts! |
| Waiting for Happiness | 08/2019 | A thought experiment on Happiness. |
| We Live Like Kings | 03/2017 | One of the few posts I got from somewhere else, because I thought it was that good. |
| Weddings Are For Suckers | 02/2017 | Why you should not waste money on nuptials and what to do instead |
| What Do Kids Know Anyway? | 02/2018 | How kids grasp money concepts. |
| What Makes a Good Jurist | 09/2018 | The qualities necessary for various players in the courtroom. |
| What's In The Bag | 07/2018 | A detailed list of what goes in a Bug Out Bag |
| When Do You Call The Guy | 01/2018 | Trying to decide what is doable and what is beyond you. |
| Where Does Discipline Come From | 03/2017 | The origins of self discipline and how to gain it. |
| White Hat Black Hat | 08/2018 | Differences and Similarities between Prosecutors and Public Defenders. |
| Whistling In The Dark | 04/2018 | How to be brave in the face of financial Challenges (This is almost a shit post) |
| Why Do You Have A Panic Room | 04/2017 | Fair Question, I will attempt to answer it. |
| Why The Law | 08/2017 | How I ended up a lawyer and how I convince myself that was not a mistake. |
| Why We Fight | 11/2017 | Collection of quotes and soundbites to rally the FIRE faithful. |
| With Ten Years Left to Live | 11/2018 | What to do If you know you will die in 10 years. |
| You Are Wrong About College | 03/2017 | A defense of higher learning from a non financial point of view. |
| Year Over Year Net Worth | 10/2017 | Tracking the rise of my Net Worth over 10+ years, with visual aids. |
| Yes, Disney is a Magical Place | 03/2018 | The family's adventures at Disney World. |
| 01/2020 | Navigating the treacherous waters of the Zoning Board. |
Somewhere along the journey you realize just how much you have written. At last count, I have produced over 107,965 words. Wow.
