Outside the Rat Race

When buying an investment property, I "run the numbers" to see what type of return I can expect. I make a bunch of researche...

When we bought our house in July , we knew the bathroom needed some work. Specifically, the shower leaked and needed to be redone. It wa...

Image: reddit.com Here's a non-surprise: I like the original Star Wars movie. The other day, I was trying to pinpoint why I still...

For Christmas my parents gave me an Amazon Echo. It's pretty cool and we've been using it for a while. Since it's a voice ac...

This might sound weird, but I've been looking forward to 2017 starting for a while. It's mostly because there's a handful of...

Well... Well... Well... 2016 is gone and was a crazy year. It should have been called the "unplanned year". Here were the big ...

Samson was born Dec 22, 2016 at 11:45pm at 5lbs 9oz and 17". As someone noted, he felt like a bag of sugar. His due date was January...

Last night I got into bed and realized I forgot to turn off the bedroom light. Jessi gave me a look that questioned who was going t...

I recently completed a 7-day water fast. For one week I ate nothing and only drank water. I decided to fast for three reasons: It w...

Let's start with a pro-tip: If you order something on Amazon, and then move houses before it arrives, and it happens that UPS use...

Jessi & I recently moved and I'm on a quest to make our house the smartest on the block. And since I'm living the Apple d...

Since we moved to Corvallis , I've been working diligently to get our old place ready to rent. I hired a couple guys from All-Star L...