Learn to control money but do not allow it to control you

savingwannabe

Firewalker we all love you. The articles can come second put yourself first - you know what to do. We all love you. Hugs, sw.

Firewalker

Good day, my friends. I am using the last ten-twenty minutes left to write - after that I have to leave the room and eventually, in about four hours to get to the airport. I am in bed, resting my leg so that it lasts me. I don't think there is a reason to worry - leg looks good and feels OK (I read somewhere that the scars can be expected to hurt for anything up to six months after the operation and it only has been a month). I have saved enough blood thining medicine to take so that I am fine. Have been wondering though whether the blood thining stuff makes me less smart? Oh, probably not!

I have had very successful time in Atlanta. I didn't win the prize but seem to have won the tournament! Everytime I spoke the room was packed, a line of work I do is obviously very much valued and used, I made people laugh whilst pointing them to think about important methodology problems (sorry, folks, research is my day job and it can be fascinating).

Apart from that, here I still found the time to write a killer post for my blog. You know how we are told that we get in [STRIKE]debt[/STRIKE] negative wealth because we spend more that we earn and don't plna for the future. Well, this is technically correct but these are manifestations rather than reasons. So I worte about the three reasons as I see them. All good fun.

I have to go now but will write tomorrow.

Firewalker

savingwannabe

Hooray for Firewalker. Well done on trip and on blog. I am prepping for next week but will look at blog later tonight. Yay.

Do have a good trip.
:j

Firewalker

I am back! Now rest...tomorrow Brussels. And I am not joking.

Firewalker

Firewalker

Good day, my friends. I am back – arrived after 9 pm last night and the good news is that I am not travelling now for some time. More precisely, I am not travelling till October, 15 when I am off to Oslo. Still, three weeks at home – I mean properly at home, without going to the office and without teaching – is something that I am very much looking forward to. Especially today....

....because I am on the settee, with my legs up and my back in absolute agony. Who said that I could get away with all this sitting on airplanes, particularly the long ones (9 hours long flights)? Well, I did but I didn’t get away with it. Mercifully, it is not my leg that gave up but my back. Have taken painkillers, and am breathing very gingerly. Expect to be my old self in couple of days – today I seem to be the Cerberus let lose.

Also today I am so grateful that I learned so much about money and how it works in different contexts. All this learning comes very handy when there is budgets dispute in the office. Apart from that I have decided to have a restful day so that tomorrow I could hit the revisions of the paper with the energy and focus the task deserves.

Firewalker

gilligansyle

Hi FW

I think you need to stop and let your leg rest. Put your feet up and just relax a bit.
It seems to me that you go at things full tilt and then they come back and get you!

savingwannabe

I agree. Put yourself first petal. There is only one of you and you only have two legs. Keep 'em!!!!

hugs, kit.

Firewalker

Did you read about that? The British Government intends to put a limit of 12 months to the benefits for terminally ill people; and this will get in force retrospectively. Which means that quite a few terminally ill people will find themselves without any funds either.

Have they gone mad? Have we become completely apathetic? We swallowed the increase in pension age (particularly for women; oh well, it make sense), we swallowed the talk about cutting funding to publicly funded services (NHS) without cut of front line services (yeah, right), we accepted the fact that our children will have to study abroad (our universities do not have the rpoduct to charge premium fees; our children will be much better studying in the US or Europe), and now we will not even notice the fact that Britain is sliding further into the abbys of primitivity.

What does this Government have to do for us to say 'this is enough!'? How long are we going to be fobbed off with tales of previous wrong?

Firewalker

beanielou

Surely not :eek:

Firewalker

When I first saw it on a website I thought it is a wind up. It is on the BBC website; apparently the thing is in the Lords now.

FW