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From the Desk of Brian Richards

A collection of thoughts and Ideas from Brian Richards, creator of WPSessions.com

Category: Life

  • Four Years after our Robbery

    Four Years after our Robbery

    Today marks four years since I was robbed. Someone entered my home, presumably between 12-6am while I and the rest of my family were sleeping, and liberated the premises of my LEGO collection. And nothing more. I wrote a blog post on the day of the theft to catalog some things and hopefully find the…

  • Piecing it back together: one year after our lego theft

    Piecing it back together: one year after our lego theft

    It’s been a year since someone broke into our home, while we were sleeping, and stole only our Lego collection. This continues to be the strangest thing I’ve ever experienced and I hope it forever will be – I don’t know if I could handle anything stranger. Throughout the year we have heard the same…

  • Stolen LEGO: Two weeks later, now with a $2000 reward

    Stolen LEGO: Two weeks later, now with a $2000 reward

    The past two weeks have been a blur. This is, by far, the strangest thing that has happened in my life to date. I sincerely hope it goes down as the strangest thing ever, because I don’t think I’m prepared for anything weirder than this. Here’s a quick high-level summary and you can find more…

  • Help! My entire LEGO collection was stolen!

    Help! My entire LEGO collection was stolen!

    Did you take my entire LEGO collection? Because somebody did. If it wasn’t you, can you help me find the thief? A list of sets, some photos of the collection, and media coverage appear at the very end of this post. Read the follow-up post, with details on a $2000 reward Read the one-year-later epilogue…

  • Ditching your DVDs for a Better Home Theater Experience

    Recently a number of people have been asking me about what I did with my collection of 240+ DVDs. I still have them, but they’re packed away in storage. Last year I set out on a quest to digitally rip every movie we owned so that we could easily watch them on any of our…

  • Maybe we’re too caught up on efficiency. We spend …

    Maybe we’re too caught up on efficiency. We spend our lives fine-tuning our ability to make money – which is a good thing – but then we use that money to avoid doing some of the only things in a human life that can provide actual fulfillment. We pay someone else to raise and teach…

  • Weirdest Incident Yet…

    Here at the Richards Manor, we don’t get a lot of foot traffic. We’re a young married couple with no kids, surrounded by retirees, 10+ miles from our nearest friends. Despite this, however, our doorbell rings at a surprisingly regular rate. Not daily, mind, but almost certainly weekly. It’s a game I like to call…

  • Working from Home is Not for the Faint of Heart

    When I tell people what I do, and that I work from home, far too often I hear, “I wish I worked from home and could do whatever I want…” Well, today I’m here to set you straight. Working from home demands a vast amount of dedication and self-discipline. It isn’t the cakewalk that you’ve…

  • Avoiding Lifestyle Inflation

    A great article on the impracticality of raising your spending habits to match your income.

  • Spend Less, Give More

    This year, instead of wasting your time, money, efforts, sanity on dutifully following the same old Christmas routine, try a new approach. Christmas is a season to remind us of giving. Read that once more. Not of giving gifts, but giving ourselves. It’s not the only time we’re expected to do this, either. Christmas serves…