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GIS is a very broad "field" and can mean a lot of different things but at the end of the day it is data manipulation, just with some pretty pictures instead of only spreadsheets. It takes a lot of varied skills, though, and, as mentioned above, you need to be able to show you have them. I ...

DW and I spent some time talking with DD this weekend. She just started 11th grade and does great in all aspects of her life. But there is some serious angst when it comes to the future. Part, if not most, of it is the pressure of thinking about college, a career, an adult life. I know I didn’t real...

Thanks GDP. I like having it posted here where I feel accountable, rather than just floating around in my head where I can ignore it!

Dude! I am glad I caught your 2 year update. There's not too many car people of this forum, I suspect, so it's good to run into you. I just started rebuilding the engine in an '82 911. I seriously considered converting it to an EV, but decided against it. After all the research, though, I'm kind of ...

@mtnFrugal - Thanks for the link. After reading your journal I realized I need to add fly fishing and drawing to the goal and aspirations list above.

Looks like I can up my 401k contribution by $6500 next year. I'm turning 50 in almost exactly a year

I have never been very good at budgeting and I really haven't been keeping track lately, so none of that (ever), but I do review various assets and accounts monthly to get an idea of how things are going. I suppose this is 'net worth' but I am not too fond of that term. Let's call it the financial f...

Great news! Went to check where I was at with the maxing of the 401k and realized I had forgotten about the company match. Adding that in puts me over the top by a couple hundred bucks for the year. Cool. Anyone know how the catch up amount works for the actual year you turn 50? Maybe it is pro-rate...

Some Goals and Aspirations, Big and Small ⁃ surf ⁃ homemade prosciutto ⁃ homebrew ⁃ have a serious conversation with DW about ideas and options for when the kids are out of the house - about 4 years from now ⁃ 1% of NW in cryptocurrency, about 1/3 of the way there ⁃ max out 401k, currently about 2/...

Rode my bike for a little errand today. Something I could have easily reasoned myself out of by thinking, 'well Store X is probably cheaper, but I don't have the time (desire?) to ride that far, so I'll drive it.' Opted to bike to the closer, (maybe) more expensive store. Thanks for keeping an eye o...

@Hristo - Excellent! Thank you. A couple of years ago I made it through most of Inferno. I'll have to get back to it, my mind wandered midway down. It is about his mid-life crisis of course, so yeah, good one.

Hello fellow travelers. I have been on the path for many moons. Sometimes I am alone, and sometimes I find another. Sometimes I walk the straight and narrow, and sometimes I wander. I have come to a point where I realize that I am wandering and alone. This journal is my effort to be held accountable...

I just spent the better part of a few workdays getting through your journal and I just wanted to say thank you for all the inspiration. Also, if you are still looking to add to your long reading list, I'd like to suggest Wendell Berry's The Unsettling of America . It's a well reasoned philosophical ...