Archive for the ‘Organization’ Category
Friday, October 23rd, 2009
Managing a checking account isn't rocket science but it's not basket weaving either. (No offense meant to basket-weavers. I tried to weave a basket in eighth grade art class and it ended up looking more like a Frisbee.)
But managing a checking account boils down to one key skill:
You have to ...
Posted in Banking, Organization, Personal Finance | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
I just mailed out my 2008 taxes this past week. I really hate doing taxes. It costs me money, it hangs over my head, it's a pain in the butt. And they're finally out the door.
My mother-in-law today recounted a statement that the pastor at one of her previous churches ...
Posted in Organization, Taxes | 3 Comments »
Sunday, July 26th, 2009
"Turn up the signal; wipe out the noise." -Peter Gabriel
Too many of my projects are laughing at me. Here's how I'm trying to shut them up.
The analogy is signal processing. With only a few important projects and sources of information (signal sources) it's straightforward to handle them all. But bring ...
Posted in Making Money, Organization | 6 Comments »
Friday, July 3rd, 2009
My wife is designing, and making, a quilt for a competition. A couple of days ago she did a wholesale change of the design. When I asked her if it what she had planned to do was just too difficult, she told me, "Pretty much everything I did, ...
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