A few weeks went by since the start of invisalign start. Here are a few confirmations and observations. First of all, just like with anything, humans are adaptable and get used to everything. A...

A friend of mine from Scotland always jokes about the number of microbreweries in the US: “microbreweries are huge here!”. Micro..huge…get it? But you know what is not huge in the US microbrewerie...

Well, today I received my check for the Equifax breach. Guess how much it was for? $5.21. Am I surprised? No. Am I upset? Very much yes. When I moved to the United States I was told that your S...

I’ve been going to school to get my bachelors for way too long. I took the last 4 months off because I was burning out. Between work and family, school was just such a low priority. I spent the las...

When I was a kid I had a retainer on my bottom jaw. But as I grew up, I never had anything done with my top teeth. My jaw ended up being a tad too small for all of them, which caused some crowding....

Back in late October/early November of 2021 YNAB announced a significant price increase. As a legacy customer it meant that my annual rate would go up 2x from $45/yr to almost $90 annually. The ent...

This year I became a dad…again! And it was wonderful. And as mentioned in parental leave post I was able to take some significant time off. On my first day back to work, a Monday, someone put a m...

I subscribe to James Clear’s newsletter and catch up on them in bulk. The question that stood out to me is “What is one lesson you learned (or re-learned) this year?” There is one clear answer so ...

2022 started out with a bang. My wife delivered a beautiful boy in January. Looking back at where we were 5 years ago as a family is pretty amazing. We had so many questions and worries. We were r...

Podcasts are awesome. I’ve really enjoyed so many of them: Darknet Diaries, Reply All, Tifo Football Podcast to name a few. According to my Pocket Casts app, since January 2018 I’ve listened to 43...