One thing about the fall, and more so in the winter is that the nights get so long. I can't say that I mind, truth be told, I like the night. Here in Colorado Springs, which is just north of the tallest peak of the American Rocky Mountains, we are easily affected by the air masses that move across the continent from practically any direction. This means that our weather is very flexible, cold one day, hot the next but it's usually sunny. I like this too.
This past week has seen freezing to comfortably warm. The cool nights are cozy, even though I overlooked the absence of a fireplace. One night this week I looked on ebay for a portable fireplace, can't say I found one but it's something I'll keep my eyes open for.
I started a finance class a couple of weeks ago, one night a week for not quite two hours. Most of what has been presented, which is reassuring since I've been investigating this area of my life for a few years. Since my financial education is largely experiential, which is less than desirable, I started to reading in this area some number of years ago beginning with either Rich Dad, Poor Dad or The Millionaire Mind. I have read over a dozen financial books, not the get-rich-quick type thing, more the how to do it right.
This class is a good consolidation of everything I've cobbled together over the years. It is my hope that at some point this class will identify the piece that will allow me to live my life further away from the edge of disaster.
Talking about finances is very taboo, but I think that is part of the problem. I think that if we talked about wise ways to use money and money competency we might have a chance of developing a better understanding of how to be better steward of all the resources available to us.
In the meantime, as I have made some new friends, some of my other friends have moved away. The irony of this does not escape me especially since they moved to California-more people to visit on my next trip there.
