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<t>Strangely appropriate timing. <br/> I am in western Washington as well and am a first time home buyer. I'm actually in the process of making a bid on a HUD home, have you had any experiences or insigths with HUD? If so, I'd love to hear.<br/> The wrinkle in this is that my wife and I will be maki...

<r>@jacob<br/> <br/> Yeah, It was interesting to meet some local people. In the end, we had five of us, plus redsted1 who was in and out of the conversations since he was keeping an eye on running his business <E>:)</E> <br/> I borrowed a copy of your book from redsted1 and made it through the intro...

<t>@AlexOliver<br/> I hope I might be able to provide a slightly different perspective. When I headed off to college, I had a decent understanding of the cost, but not to the degree I thought. I graduated with just over 40k in loans, but I took great care to make sure that I graduated in three years...

Thanks Jacob.

Where at and what's on tap?
I'll be there.

<r>Surio,<br/> I've been listening to the Massey lectures during my commute. Thanks for the links. I have been absolutely enthralled. At the end of one of the lectures (can't remember which), I almost cried out of having my mind so blown. None of the meta/worldview/abstract-ideas talked about are pa...

<r>generally, a laundry list, but specifically, aversion to the unknown <E>:)</E><br/> I think that the biggest thing is that I haven't actually critically thought about the real possibility of living in an RV yet, which means that she hasn't had to. It wouldn't be feasible for a while since it woul...

Coffee on the 30th works for me. The U district would work well for me as I have easy access to the 48 bus line.

<r>I thought about changing "cool" to "awesome," just for added effect <E>:)</E><br/> I did not realize this was a mainstream "design language" (or whatever one might call it) for the interior. Most of what I know about RVs are from 80s and 90s, and I know that part of my girlfriends' hangups around...

<r>My girlfriend just sent me this link. I've been trying to figure out how to convince her to at least try living in an RV. She said she might do something like what's in this album. The first thing I thought was zombie attack, but whatever <E>:D</E><br/> Enjoy: <URL url="http://imgur.com/a/tESq5/m...

<r>As much as I'd like to get all the seattle area people together, if we can get a date where at least three of us can agree on, can we call it good and keep in mind that we can always do another later?<br/> With that in mind would Jan 30 work? I don't have any restrictions on place except that sta...

<t>I'm not even halfway to 50 and my plans for early retirement are basically to have a graceful and controlled exit from my career to enter a state of idleness. This idleness will not be doing *nothing,* but instead pursuing things that interest me without respect to compensation. Put another way, ...

@jeremy, where did you get those six steps? I like that structure. It's a simple progression that I always forget and want to jump from 2 to 6

<t>My girlfriend sent this youtube video to me and I thought I'd pass it on. It's an animation plus audio from a lecture done by Sir Ken Robinson. It takes a look at some of the ideas behind education and how it relates to learning, economics, etc. <br/> Maybe this is the wrong subforum. Feel free t...

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I thought I'd bring this up again. Reschedule for 11/7?

@jacob, I was actually thinking of doing that. I'm within walking distance, so i'll swing by around 1.

@redsted, it sounds like it'd just be you and me. I wouldn't be bothered by a reschedule. The more the merrier

<t>@Jacob<br/> One of the things that I took from the book was the idea of practice. By going through the motions of trying, making mistakes, being unable to succeed, etc., we're better able to take advantage of larger challenges when they come.<br/> I think it is a focus on mastering the basics thr...

+1 for an inspiring read. It's not really a step by step type of deal, but more along the lines of something where you read a few pages and think about things for a while (i.e. meditate on it). I might have to add this to the list of things to check out from the library again...

<t>The movie posted above really closely reflects part of my motivation for ERE/FI.<br/> I know that one of the things that I'm shooting for is not early retirement, but financial independence. I'm in the software industry because I love it. I've been sitting in front of computers programming and dr...