In 2017 I finished about 18 books and I decided my goal for 2018 was to finish 48 books. This is a pretty hefty increase but thanks to library related services it made trying to hit this goal much easier. In total for 2018 I attempted to read 43 books …

This was the last month of year and I came in under my monthly goal again. Due to a combination of not being able to find anything I was really passionate about reading coupled with the general end of year activities that can either limit or increase how much a …

I didn't read quite as much as I would have liked to in November since I started a new job and was getting into the swing of things so it took me a bit longer than usual to finish what I did read. In total I finished 2 books which …

October turned out to be a both a pretty good month for completing books, but also a bit of a bummer for various reasons. I didn't make my goal of completing 4 books but I came pretty close. On top of that I definitely enjoyed the books I did finish …

I've been searching for a job for a while now and there's one benefit that is constantly getting overlooked and that's a 401(k). In the past setting up, managing, and running a 401k was difficult or you had to bring in some big bank to handle it for you …

Last week I sent out an announcement email to my project's mailing list to inform users that I would be shutting down my latest side project Primeminder.

I've done one of these postmortems before for a side project, and figured since I was shutting down Primeminder I might as well …

Since I was let go from my job I’ve been back on the job hunt. My goals over the last few years have had a pretty simply motto, make as much money as I can as ethically as I can. This means that I’m not willing to work …

I was really busy with job interviews in September (will save that for another post) so I only managed to make it through two books this month. Like I noted last month it didn't help that I did a poor job managing my queue from the library. The books that …

Between enjoying the outdoors and job interviews I didn't read as much as I would have liked in August. I really need to do a better job of planning when I add items to my library queue as I'm not planning far enough ahead (something which I am sure will …

July was another busy month with job interviews and some traveling so I didn't quite hit my goal and I did read a book I had finished in the past because I felt like revisiting it. That's something I typically don't do, but I didn't want to read something new …