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Oh, contain yourself! My garden plan for this year consists of three 4×4′ raised bed containers, which means I needed to build two more boxes. Here’s my simple “how to” for building raised garden beds. Supply List (for each 4×4′ box) 2×6 boards* – 40 feet total (if you have to load them in your [...]

Packing light is one of the top questions I get about my RTW career break.  We all know that person who drags a mammoth rolling suitcase on vacation and many of us have encountered the smelly guy who brags about only carrying a daypack.  I like to think that there’s a happy medium that anyone [...]

It’s been over a year since I quit my job to travel.  Now that I’ve been back on the job hunt for a month, I’ve assembled a list of ways to streamline your job search. Set up RSS feeds. Just because you’re unemployed doesn’t mean that you want to spend hours every day combing through [...]

How To Use Your Laptop as a Media Center has moved to the Frugal Bon Vivant. It includes: What you need to set up your own laptop media center step-by-step how to guide where to find movies and TV shows online Enjoy! How To Use Your Laptop as a Media Center PC

As a die-hard fan of list making, tasks, and GTD – Getting Things Done – I’m always trying out new programs, hoping to find the best of all worlds. I even went back to using a moleskine journal/datebook in ’04, but could never seem to keep it updated since I sit in front of a [...]

What’s my excuse for being late to the global warming game? It’s not politics or will power, but the lack of real actions steps – short of selling my soul and installing solar panels on my balcony. After checking out my friend Al’s site about an Inconvenient Truth (that he likely discovered), I found a [...]