Blog
Just some ramblings about things and stuff, very much not tech related.
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Backyard Birds
24 February 2019Here’s some of the birds I’ve identified that I see in my backyard. Click through if you’re interested in learning a little more about them. I’ll add more to this post as I figure out what they are.
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Finally moved to the country
11 February 2019I did eventually get around to moving to the country. I bought the house in 2017 for $30,000 and have easily spent as much again fixing it up. It’s turning into quite a nice house now, but still needs a lot of work. It used to be a bakery back in 1900 or so and was empty for somewhere between 10-15 years before I bought it, the timeline is a bit hard to figure out. I’m currently trying to buy the vacant land next door so I have lots of room for chickens and fruit trees.
The second half of last year was quite a bad time in my life and I ended up with some very physical effects from all the stress that are dissolving as I am out here in the country, spending time pottering in the garden and painting the walls. The kids have settled down a lot and their behaviour has improved dramatically.
After 4 weeks I caved and adopted a cat from a local rescue, which puts me firmly on the path to becoming an eccentric cat lady in the bush. I have decided I have a $80 a week budget for plants from the internet and boy am I going to make sure I spend it every week. The garden looks much nicer now I’m actually here to look after it.
But the biggest change is I now have a big white 4WD, which fits in perfectly on my street.
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Cunning plans
07 September 2018So about a year ago I was going to actually blog about these plans I have to disappear to the country and go live under a rock. The plans are taking longer than I was thinking, but aren’t really rocket science.
They go something like this:
- Live like a pauper
- Buy shitty real estate with a high yeild x a few
- Accidentally buy shitty real estate in an area experiencing very high growth
- Wait for growthy property to growth some
- Sell growthy property and pay off other properties
Clearly this is an oversimplification, and I’m still on step 4 and am going to encourage this growth by getting the land surveyed and an architect designed dwelling approved, as it’s a shitty block of land and nobody has any imagination these days for what you do on shitty land. I may actually build and sell the completed non-shitty dwelling as it is in a good location, but that’s far too far ahead to really think about.While I’m waiting on step 4 I should probably buy some index funds, but am distracted by trying to secure a completely paid off house to live in while doing so, and I’m not quite sure what’s happening with my current job. I also need mundane things like a chook yard, shade house, fruit trees and indoor plumbing. Baby steps.
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Welcome
05 August 2017Yeah I’m going to write something here but got distracted by css and stuff, nothing to see here, moving right along
