Follow your dreams…but what dreams?

Sylvie had, has, the voice of an angel.  The sort of voice that you hear in your dreams.  I met her at University and even in her late teens, when she sang it would lift your soul, or bring you to laughter, or tears.  Sometimes it would do all three in the course of five…

By Caveman March 10, 2020 5

Looking forward, looking back

Well this is late isn’t it? A review of 2019 at the start of February. Ah well though, I guess the deal is that if you put up a bunch of resolutions at the start of the year then you kinda have to hold yourself accountable and say how you did at the end. I…

By Caveman February 5, 2020 3

Big Fat FIRE Quiz Of The Year!!!

Hey you. Yeah you chewing baccy and swigging sarsaparilla. C’mon over here. What kind of FIRE person are you? You heard. What’s your FIRE personality? Don’t know?!?!? You don’t know?!?! Hot dang kid! How can you get to your age and not know?!?!? My goodness young ‘un it’s a good job that you bumped into…

By Caveman December 16, 2019 4

Days of leaves and loss

Everyone has their favourite season. Some live for the long, sultry days and balmy evenings of Summer. Others enjoy the chilled noses, open fires and hibernation of Winter. Still other revel in Spring, the promise of new life, the sense of nature stretching out and walking up in the gentle sun and showers. Personally, I…

By Caveman December 3, 2019 9

The seductive peril of loving your job

If there was a time when I did anything other than sit in meetings with lawyers and bankers and consultants, I’m not sure I can recall it.  There must have been a point where I didn’t do any work on weekends, but if there was it’s lost to my recollection.  I go to sleep thinking…

By Caveman November 25, 2019 3

Living before dying

The first thing that hit me was the smell. Not unpleasant exactly but I wouldn’t want to spend all day with it. Not like they had to. It was mix of cleaning product and that medical staleness that, somehow, is nothing to with hygiene. A smell of the living, or the smell of the dying?…

By Caveman September 5, 2019 4

A Perfect Day: What I aspire to after Financial Independence

‘Just a perfect day Problems all left alone Weekenders on our own It’s such fun’ Lou Reed, Perfect Day Lou Reed’s 1972 masterpiece sprung to mind when I saw Saving Ninja’s thought experiment this month.  A perfect day.  He asked: “What do you need to achieve real, true happiness? What are you aspiring to?” Big…

By Caveman August 15, 2019 4

The joy of doing Financial Independence wrong

A lot of the time I feel like I’m doing financial independence wrong. Basically I don’t find it particularly hard. Not from a practical point of view anyway (the emotional side is different). From an everyday perspective financial independence is meant to be a slog right? Putting in the hours today for a better tomorrow.…

By Caveman August 6, 2019 23

Have I become… cheap?

I’ve been kicking around the financial independence space for a little while. You can’t do that without picking up a few things (like how if you rebrand laziness as idleness you can get away with a LOT). There are mysteries out there that you only can find out after the secret FIRE initiation. As a…

By Caveman July 18, 2019 13

Work less hard, you won’t regret it

Do you feel like you work too hard? Spend too many hours in the office or commuting? You’re not alone. People on their deathbeds wish they hadn’t worked so hard. It’s a cliché isn’t it? I certainly find myself often saying or thinking: “No one says on their deathbed that they wished they had spent…

By Caveman July 11, 2019 7