It’s great that Office is coming to the Mac App Store, but honestly, I’m all in on iWork. There was a learning curve, but now I like it more than I ever liked Office.

January 24,2019

Cleaning a high chair is a lot like washing your car. No matter how clean you get it, within a few hours, there will be a thunderstorm that makes it dirty again.

January 24,2019

Haiku

One Month Clean

Doc: “No stimulants.”

No coffee in a whole month.

Compliant patient.

January 23,2019

Benedict is at karate practice and I’m on the sidelines ordering groceries for pickup tomorrow. 2019 is nice.

January 23,2019

Reading

Currently reading: 8 Minute Meditation Expanded: Quiet Your Mind. Change Your Life. by Victor Davich 📚

January 23,2019

I love when minor iOS updates fix super annoying bugs.

January 23,2019

Haiku

Empty Zoo

Just us at the zoo.

I prefer it that way, though.

People ruin things.

January 22,2019

On track to have all of my tax docs in hand by the 31st. This is so uncommon. Perhaps this will be an easy filing season.

January 22,2019

Book Review: Smart Money, Smart Kids 📚

This book has been in my reading queue for some time. Now that my kids are getting old enough to start absorbing some of the lesson around money, I thought it was a good time to dive in.

If you’re a Dave Ramsey fan, or have followed his work to any degree, there are huge chunks of this book that you can skip. Like most of the other books, if you’ve read The Total Money Makeover or have gone through Financial Peace University, there’s little new information. That’s frustrating, but hey, points for consistency.

Of the 250 pages or so, I got good or new information out of about 150 pages. There were plenty of practical tips, most of which shared through their experience. It was the way that they raised their kids and several times through the book, I found their techniques to be a bit weird. The intention was not to share the definitive way to parent, but rather, to show a way that appears to have yielded good results. Like any other book, productivity system, or whatever, I’ll harvest the good parts and leave the rest.

Coming away from the book, I feel confident in the contours of how to teach my children to use money. I just wish I didn’t have that hangover feeling from hearing so much of the same information again.

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★

ISBN: 9781937077631

January 22,2019

I love when we’re the only ones here.