Friday will be my last day of work. Then starts my mini-retirement. Or as I like to refer to it - My Summer of George (SOG). A few of you have sent me questions, so I thought I’d answer them all at once.
Q: How long will you go without a job?
A: Although [...]
I love high fuel prices. Whenever I hear about the rising cost of oil it makes me happy. You see 20% of my 401K is in an energy fund that is invested in oil companies. Last quarter I made almost $2000 in this one fund alone. During that same period I drove maybe 3000 miles. [...]
Today I gave 2 weeks notice to my employer. I have been at the same job since January 2002. It’s time for a change. I don’t have a new job waiting for me. At this time I don’t want or need one.
This will be my Summer of George!
George: Severance package…The Yankees are giving me three [...]
I completed the Horsethief Canyon hike this week. View the photo gallery.
A friend of mine recently told me she was going to sell her house herself. She asked me what I thought of that idea. Here is what I told her.
There are 2 cycles to the real estate market. A buyers market and a sellers market. 2004 was the end of the sellers market. Today the [...]
Sunday we went hiked the Palm Canyon in the Anza Borrego Desert State Park. This was my first experience with boulder hopping and it was a great time. The only downside is the season is over and it won’t be cool enough in the desert until October for a return visit.
My employer gave us Good Friday off as one of our holiday days. Sorry MLK. I wanted to go hiking, but the forecast called for rain. That didn’t stop me this time. I went to the store and bought a $5 poncho and headed out for a 6-mile hike on the San Pasqual North [...]
I live a few blocks from the Hotel San Diego. Actually, I should say I used to live next to the Hotel San Diego as it was imploded today. Here is a link to a photo gallery of shots taken before and after the implosion. And here is a link to very shaky video [...]
Last weekend I went skiing at Bogus Basin in Boise, Idaho. Here is the photo gallery.
Columbus readers may think this is Fritz the Night Owl, but I can assure you it is me.
In 2002, I created a cool little tool that builds an image from an email address. The purpose is to allow people to put a contact email address on a web site without spiders seeing it and sending them spam.
This page is quite popular. So when my web host decided to remove the [...]
