How To Easily Do Your Own Home Energy Audit
Take a look at how I did my own home energy audit for free, and charted a path to remedy most of the deficiencies I found.
Unsolicited Advice: Surrounding Death, Give People the Benefit of the Doubt
Death is hard. In dealing with it, keep in mind that everyone else copes in their own ways. This alone can help you proceed with a bit more grace and aplomb.
Life Elixir, or: How To Win Your Workout Prep
A great idea and recipe for peri-workout nutrition and overall awesomeness... To your health!
Ride the Lightning: How to Install a 30 amp EV-Charging Outlet
Check out my overview of installing a new circuit in my garage to charge my electric car. Probably not for the uninitiated, but a good DIY project nonetheless!
Is It More Important to Win or to Play by the Rules?
New York Mills's "Great American Think-Off" got me doing some thinking on this here topic. What you choose says a lot about you, in my opinion. Who do you want to be?
How To Use Mint To Improve Your Financial Life
Mint is a free web tool designed to automate the tediousness of tracking your personal finances. It's proven invaluable for me, and I think it can probably help you to be a better financial ninja.
2021: Baby Steps In The Garden
Check out MyUnfocusedBlog's 2021 efforts in planning and pursuing the Three Ps of gardening: Privacy, Pollination, and Provisions!
How Home Energy Inefficiencies Are Like Household Debt
Home energy efficiency and debt have a lot of parallels, and the latter can serve as a good framework for addressing the former. Sometimes a change in mindset is all you need to make it "click!"
Why Chest Freezers are a Great Tool to Get Rich
A chest freezer is a beautiful, practically money-printing delight to own. Dive in to figure out how one might help you save beaucoup bucks!
How To Make Google’s Telework Pay Payoff
Google's recently-reported locality pay implementation could be a boom or bust for its employees. But how will they decide which?