I remember when "My house, my rules" was considered respect.

If you think you are always right you have no ability to learn new ideas.

Are you more frugal now than a year ago? #fire #earlyretirement

I linked the Investment Company Institute in my latest blog post. They corrected some data I had which I added to the post. Changes: 26% of households have a Roth IRA, but only 12% of IRA assets are Roth, or about $2 trillion. Interesting tidbit.

Went to the post office to drop off a letter certified to a state tax department. When I walked out of the post office people were waiting for me to see if I would take new clients. It is getting tough finding a tax pro in these parts.

Isn't to 10-year Treasury note supposed to go up, hence the yield decline, as a flight to safety when conflict erupts around the world?

Happy Father's Day to all the awesome dads out there.

Oh-oh!

What are you listening to now?

Something really getting carried away in my office. Every class reunion now hits up as many businesses to fund their reunion. I got like 5 or 6 letters over the weekend alone. Anyone else?

I love this time of year. From now till Thanksgiving well over half my diet is from my farm. E.g. Dinner tonight is Potatoes, onions, and asparagus cooked over a fire with bass from my pond. The wood for the fire is from trees on my farm. Strawberry dessert. Clean living.

What is going on? Meat packing plants are closing, manufacturers, even Pepsi closed a plant in CA. Very strange.

Don't be that guy. Be you.

When management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact. —Warren Buffett

It is hot here.

Mid-90s are hot for Wisconsin; a cool breeze for Texas. But I am in Wisconsin. So it's hot.