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Second to Last Update? Sept '21 Net Worth

Second to Last Update? Sept ’21 Net Worth

I am swiftly creeping up on my FIRE number. At the same time, my blogging momentum is loosing steam. This might be the beginning of the end of my online FIRE journey.  Sept ’21 Net Worth equals total Assets minus total Liabilities. Total Assets: $3,222,864 + $ 132,652 from the last 2 months. Accounts receivable, This is a floundering business deal from 2014 Real Estate 2nd home/vacation rental &…

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Tips for The Road - Urban Survival

Tips for The Road – Urban Survival

(Caution the above photo is from the movie; The Road, do not watch it or read the book lightly) I love learning things I did not know. The internet puts such nuggets of wisdom in my path on a regular basis. I decided to gather up some of the ones which apply to the school of survival wisdom and pass them along. Who knows maybe a reoccurring post? Tips for the Road, in no particular…

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Chapter 18; LowKey Hoping for a Straw Death

Chapter 18; LowKey Hoping for a Straw Death

I recently tried to get my spouse to pack up our current life and start all over again by purchasing a sweet self contained compound with lots of room for expansion. There is nothing wrong with my current life. Living the All American dream. Good jobs, 2 kids, nice town, enough money to not worry about anything. Still. I saw a posting on realtor.com that made my heart skip a beat. Here’s an…

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Tips for the Road #2 - Wilderness

Tips for the Road #2 – Wilderness

This is the Second installment of my ongoing series of Random Survival Information. Traveler tips have been around for a long time; Drink water from the spring where horses drink. The horse will never drink bad water. Lay your bed where the cat sleeps. Eat the fruit that has been touched by a worm. Boldly pick the mushroom on which the insects sit. Plant the tree where the mole digs. Build your…

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Chapter 17; A Dream of A Fetch

Chapter 17; A Dream of A Fetch

Is there anything worse than someone telling you about THEIR dream? It is on par with them reading their poetry. I am willing to do both by the way, one need only to ask. Sometimes the picture drives the narrative. I once had a dream about an ex girlfriend sitting next to my bed smoking a cigarette with a fox head. Later found out foxes are a common fetch for a girl in her prime years. The fetch…

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Tips for the Road #3 - Camping

Tips for the Road #3 – Camping

This is the Third installment of my ongoing series of Random Survival Information. More of a Camping theme going on this time; Frist things first, where to set up camp? A couple of things to keep in mind; Dry level ground. You do not want your feet higher than your head while you sleep. Blood will rush to your head. No trees that look like they might fall. They are know in the parlance of the…

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Tips for the Road #11 - Edible Plants you Should Know

Tips for the Road #11 – Edible Plants you Should Know

This is the Eleventh installment of my ongoing series of Random Survival Information. Time for an arboreal theme. 6 Trees Every Survivalist Should Know & Why from Willowhaven Now is a good time to go out and flag the following six trees before the leaves drop (except the pine).  Revisit them in the winter and learn how to ID them by the bark alone.  Then again in the Spring with the buds and…

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Chapter 16; Pagan Tattoos

Chapter 16; Pagan Tattoos

I am all for them. There is a long history of tattoos with our ancestors and our culture. I feel the permanency and the pain of a tattoo is a ritual in itself. They certainly are addictive. I have 18 or so. There is nothing else to do but allow the mind to wander and concentrate on the sensations traveling through your body as you sit there hour after hour getting marked up. I was lucky enough to…

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Chapter 15; Re Imagining the Runes

Chapter 15; Re Imagining the Runes

Perhaps there is a silver lining in that so very little of our runes/religion made it through to the other side of Christianity intact. At least there is no rigid dogma. The Runes are free to be a living, breathing, malleable system. When interpreting the runes as modern folk, I often find myself at a loss to bridge the accepted meaning to something more present in my everyday life. As an…

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Prepping Tasks Around the House

Prepping Tasks Around the House

I get it, I really do. Why waste your time with all these weird prepping ideas when nothing that bad is going to happen? I am not encouraging you to go live in a bunker until the end of the world. But there is no reason why you can not make small adjustments around the house, over time, that would help out tremendously IF you ever needed to confront a true emergency. Here is a whole bunch of…

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Chapter 14; Runic Chant

Chapter 14; Runic Chant

If I had a nickel for every time I have chanted the runes themselves I would have a whole bunch of nickels. It is both soothing and reassuring. I created this Runic Chant as an aide to become comfortable with each of the runes themselves in the first place. I can tell you about this Runic Chant/Poem in the context of how I indoctrinated my sons to the runes. For that express purpose, I developed…

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Angel Investing on Autopilot

Angel Investing on Autopilot

Once I reached accredited investor status there were several big opportunities that opened up and I had the capital to try some out. Angel investing is usually for someone stuffing big sums of money into start-ups and hoping that that company makes you rich. I found a cheaper way to do that with less risk. A company called SeedInvest. SeedInvest is an equity crowdfunding platform. Companies can…

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Next Net Worth Update - May '21

Next Net Worth Update – May ’21

I feel like I’m stumbling into Money Left and Right. When it’s a Bull Market, it’s ‘I get to check my net worth every month‘ It is exciting. I am pulling in a good salary’s worth of growth each month! I was ashamed, for about 30 seconds, about my delving into Crypto, but the numbers do not lie – as you will see below!  May ’21 Net Worth equals total Assets minus total Liabilities. Total Assets:…

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A Natural Crypto Evolution

A Natural Crypto Evolution

Moving from Precious Metals to Crypto Currency as my main hedge against market shifts. I have always kept a very diverse basket of assets. Even in the FIRE community I was something of an oddball because of my love of all that glitters. Not a lot of GoldBugs in this world. Part of my affinity for precious metals probably was linked to my Prepper Nature. I still believe in keeping a certain…

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Tips for the Road #5 - Codes

Tips for the Road #5 – Codes

This is the Fifth installment of my ongoing series of Random Survival Information. Now we take a look at codes, both secret and public knowledge. Back in the days of actual hobos roaming around, they developed their own codes to mark the people and places they were passing by. Here is some of that code; The use of these marking is certainly on the decline over the decades. However, bad economic…

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Cryptocurrency Sucker

One year ago, I was telling my friend that I knew Covid would not kill us off. However, I WAS WORRIED about the economic damage. That going through Covid might lead to financial ruin. Fast forward 1 year and my opinion has evolved. I think our economy is on the brink of a huge surge. There is a lot of pent up money waiting to come back in. The government just went ‘all in‘ on trying to spend our…

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Chapter 13; Holidays and The Wheel of the Year

Chapter 13; Holidays and The Wheel of the Year

Here is an area where my own little religion becomes either diverse or sloppy depending on how you feel about my decision to embrace several traditions which encompass The West. Some Norse, a few roman, and even a Greek holiday, all stapled onto the skeletal outline of the Celtic Wheel of the Year. The Wheel aligns nicely with the major equinoxes and solstices. Some of the holidays on the Wheel…