Category: Life
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Avoiding Lifestyle Inflation
A great article on the impracticality of raising your spending habits to match your income.
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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…