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$5 Showdown: Linode vs. DigitalOcean vs. Amazon Lightsail vs. Vultr - July 2017

Damn Josh, back at it again with the VPS comparison! It's been a little more than 6 months since my last comparison post and a lot of the recent feedback has been to refresh the data a bit more regularly [...]

Stop thinking, start doing

Nothing urks me more than somebody saying they want to do something and all they are doing to accomplish it is thinking about it. Had a conversation about this with somebody recently. They want to get into selling their artwork [...]

Tortilla chip croutons

Ever get an idea in your head, then search the web furiously under the assumption that somebody had to have done it already? That was me today. I like taco salads but I simply hate the idea of an edible [...]

Using goals to create habits

Goals are absolutely worthless if they don't help you to establish habits or virtues. That said, I love goals and consider myself somewhat of a goal-centric individual. Goals give me something to work towards and a wonderful sense of accomplishment [...]

Saying goodbye

I didn't cry this much when my mother passed away. For my momma dog though... I was a fucking wreck. Reason being? At first, I thought maybe just maybe it had something to do with my own emotional growth over [...]

Missing in Me

One of my goals this year is to write a book... ...and I'm doing a superb job of fucking it up by not prioritizing my time around writing and accomplishing this goal of mine. With that, I figured I may [...]

Charity starts on your hard drive

I've never been a charitable person. There, I said it. It's not that I don't care enough, it's that I've always been somewhat selfish with my "hard earned dollars". That said, this past January I read Dave Ramsay's The Total [...]

June Challenge: Improve Posture

Last year I took the month of June to immerse myself in Jazz music in an attempt to find some appreciation for it. I still think jazz sucks but Jazz June has turned into a mid-year opportunity for me to [...]

Just drive

We did a thing today. We got in the car and drove to the largest Buc-ee's in the great state of Texas. Nay! We drove to the largest Buc-ee's on the planet Earth. Why? Why the fuck not. It's quite [...]

Changing personality types

Since late 2015 and every 6 months or so after, I have been taking a Myers-Briggs test by way of 16Personalities. Can't really remember, but I think the reason I originally took the test was because my Dave had asked [...]