Coworkers, Birthdays, and Fantasy
This week felt pretty long, and covered a lot of ground. I started off the week a little sick (days 57-59), and saw my old coworkers around mid week (day 59). Later in the week between my fantasy league draft (day 61) and a neighbor’s birthday (day 62), I drank enough alcohol that my whole…
Tech work in the suburbs
This week I wait and watch to see if my lead foot in South Africa is going to cause me more issues. It was also JC’s birthday. The rest of the week after that was about as mundane as it can get, at least for content in this blog. I spent the bulk of it…
Getting Scammed: The Anatomy of a Hack
This week we saw our identities and financial accounts flash before our eyes with JC getting scammed (day 36). We scrambled for a full day to get a hold of that situation. As we came up for air the next day, she got tricked into using a shady passport renewal site as well (day 37).…
Settling In To Our CO Life
This week we were wrapping up a lot of nagging things around the house, and we finally put an end to all of our extended family activities. We’re finally settling into our CO life. FIRE: Day 29 (7/27) There wasn’t a lot going on today with the house now that we have it almost fully…
Finally Home
This was another week of busy house activity. We returned to stay at our house (day 22), sleeping in sleeping bags because we don’t have any furniture in the house. We continuously worked on unpacking, installing, and fixing things through the week. The carpet installation took place later in the week (day 25), and once…
Flooring Marathon
FIRE: Day 15 (7/13) The days are starting to feel like they are just blasting by, and I’m not sure what that is. Today felt like it was about six hours long, and maybe it’s just because we’re busy with various things. I continued with intervals of applying mud to my drywall patch, scraping, sanding,…
FIRE Existential Crisis
We are still working on house projects this week, and making good progress. There aren’t any more emergencies to deal with, so it’s all forward progress now. I had a bit of a mental meltdown, a FIRE existential crisis (see day 9). FIRE: Day 8 (7/6) We rented a 9′ UHaul van today and started…
FIRE Week One
At this point with our year of travel over, we have returned to our regular life in CO. In the kickoff post for our year of travel I was speculating about what we would return to in terms of having achieved FIRE or not. Our at-home budget is still developing at this point, and I…
Traveling Toward Fire
A Premature FI Experiment
