Well phase one of my plan is almost complete, paying off my credit card so I have some real money to start investing. My blogging has suffered greatly with all of my recent travel, but that travel has also racked up some great over time that helped me pay off my credit card 2 months ahead of schedule. Well my credit card isn’t really paid off yet. I still have to get reimbursed for expenses for my last jaunt, but as soon as I am it is paid for.
I was going to throw up a new graph for my retirement goal but it looks pretty much the same. It won’t really be different until I make my first investment and figure out if I really start making any real kind of residual income. It is kind of sad being on so much travel and exercising so little. My best workout in the last two months was a power walk and sprint across SEATAC airport to make a flight. I need to focus more on diet and exercise on travel, but it is hard with the long hours, especially when you are happy about the long hours contributing to the retirement fund.
My real retirement accounts have been doing horrible lately, except for my gold, which is not nearly enough to save everything else. On the bright side I don’t stress too much over that since that is my retirement augment fund. But, I am really concerned with the amount of money the government is talking about sinking in to these failing industries. I wonder what we can really do fix the economy and the world. Are the two presidential candidates really much different? Will either one of them have enough power to affect any change even if they wanted to? I just hope they don’t try to change the no capital gains on homes law anytime soon, because that could put serious damper on my retirement schemes…
Finally I will leave a little pic of my recent adventures, while working up in Alaska a coworker and myself made it down to Valdez for a little fishing. It was beautiful out there, I really had no idea. We were on a fishing charter with two others and they each got a Silver Salmon (Coho) and my buddy got a little Ling Cod, which we had to throw back (about two feet too small to keep). I was really disappointed after spending a total of about 6 weeks up there I only wanted to do two things, catch a salmon and see the Northern Lights. I had dreams of catching half a dozen salmon, but then I found out another group of coworkers went down and it cost him $88 bucks to ship one home, It lessened my sense of loss. Then I found out you pretty much only see the Aurora in the winter I felt that was an alright sacrifice, not having to go back in the winter. But, who knows…
I was going to throw up a new graph for my retirement goal but it looks pretty much the same. It won’t really be different until I make my first investment and figure out if I really start making any real kind of residual income. It is kind of sad being on so much travel and exercising so little. My best workout in the last two months was a power walk and sprint across SEATAC airport to make a flight. I need to focus more on diet and exercise on travel, but it is hard with the long hours, especially when you are happy about the long hours contributing to the retirement fund.
My real retirement accounts have been doing horrible lately, except for my gold, which is not nearly enough to save everything else. On the bright side I don’t stress too much over that since that is my retirement augment fund. But, I am really concerned with the amount of money the government is talking about sinking in to these failing industries. I wonder what we can really do fix the economy and the world. Are the two presidential candidates really much different? Will either one of them have enough power to affect any change even if they wanted to? I just hope they don’t try to change the no capital gains on homes law anytime soon, because that could put serious damper on my retirement schemes…
Finally I will leave a little pic of my recent adventures, while working up in Alaska a coworker and myself made it down to Valdez for a little fishing. It was beautiful out there, I really had no idea. We were on a fishing charter with two others and they each got a Silver Salmon (Coho) and my buddy got a little Ling Cod, which we had to throw back (about two feet too small to keep). I was really disappointed after spending a total of about 6 weeks up there I only wanted to do two things, catch a salmon and see the Northern Lights. I had dreams of catching half a dozen salmon, but then I found out another group of coworkers went down and it cost him $88 bucks to ship one home, It lessened my sense of loss. Then I found out you pretty much only see the Aurora in the winter I felt that was an alright sacrifice, not having to go back in the winter. But, who knows…
