Wordpress, now with less security problems! (finally upgraded from old to quasi new). I’m sure someone will find another exploit soon (how you can cram so many exploits into blogging software is beyond me).

I really neglect this blog :)

That being said; work has been super busy lately. I hope next quarter I have more time to embark on fun life things. I just got back from a trip to Las Vegas and it was an enjoyable weekend, albeit one with a lot of walking. During the trip i read the book verison of Jumper. Lets skip the part where the film was horrible and get to the part where the kid steals millions of dollars from a bank, doesn’t get caught, and then moves on to spend it in what I can only describe as a ‘fairly reckless mannor.’

My point in bringing this up is not to rob a bank (unless you enjoy jailtime) but that it is…tempting a bit to live beyond ones means. My trip to vegas was a fun time and after tallying up the costs…I wondered how much I could realistically spend doing crazy things like ‘going to new york for a weekend and seeing some shows’ or other things like that. I would have never thought of doing something like that a year ago.

Obviously spending tens of thousands of dollars on silly trips every couple of months is no way to save money and in the long run it is prudent to have a budget and a plan for saving cash. Right now I am doing ok there but I think as I consider things in the future (3-5 years) I wonder at what I can do to get to that sweet spot faster. It would be great to not have to stop working (which would be boring I think) but perhaps to not have a ‘real job’. This thought process of course, being triggered by a co-worker who is taking a year off (yay stock options) to do random crap. Being that I’m single, no car payment, no pets…etc… now would be the time to do something crazy.

And so I join the millions of Americans who are trying to think up ways to make money ;)