Money and Finance
This past week was great. I was able to go home, although only for a day, and be with my wife which is always a good thing. We ended up going to see another movie at the theaters which is more than I've seen in probably the previous three years combined. We're suckers for scary movies even though they tend to be a letdown in the end but watched Crimson Peak anyways. It was an okay movie, but one that I'd definitely recommend to wait until it goes to Netflix.
It also doesn't hurt that cooler weather has moved in. Well it's good during the days with highs in the upper 60's and lower 70's, but at night it's a bit too cold for this Texas boy.
Blogging/Writing
If you've been following along this week I was quite busy with the blog/writing. The good thing about me working nights is that there's less distractions during the time I work. No checking in o how the markets are doing, less people from town worried about the drilling. So I get to focus a lot more and get more writing done. I was able to post 5 different articles, get 3 other articles written that should be going up this week, as well as get started on a 4 part series as well. There's plenty of ideas rolling around in my head and I'm excited to get a lot more writing done. It was definitely a good week for writing.
Additions to my Portfolio Tracking
I was also busy making some changes to my FI Portfolio that I track in Google Sheets to be able to get quick visuals of the weightings for my portfolio. I added a Weights tab that compares the capital weight vs the dividend weight for each sector that I'm invested. This gives me a quick view of which sectors might be out of whack with how I would prefer my portfolio allocation to be as well as let's me know if a sector is also providing an abnormally high amount of dividends. There's also a new tab called Tree Map. Google added the tree map function to their sheets and I really do like it. Here's what it looks like.
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Money and Finance
Weekly Roundup - November 15, 2015
It also doesn't hurt that cooler weather has moved in. Well it's good during the days with highs in the upper 60's and lower 70's, but at night it's a bit too cold for this Texas boy.
Blogging/Writing
If you've been following along this week I was quite busy with the blog/writing. The good thing about me working nights is that there's less distractions during the time I work. No checking in o how the markets are doing, less people from town worried about the drilling. So I get to focus a lot more and get more writing done. I was able to post 5 different articles, get 3 other articles written that should be going up this week, as well as get started on a 4 part series as well. There's plenty of ideas rolling around in my head and I'm excited to get a lot more writing done. It was definitely a good week for writing.
Additions to my Portfolio Tracking
I was also busy making some changes to my FI Portfolio that I track in Google Sheets to be able to get quick visuals of the weightings for my portfolio. I added a Weights tab that compares the capital weight vs the dividend weight for each sector that I'm invested. This gives me a quick view of which sectors might be out of whack with how I would prefer my portfolio allocation to be as well as let's me know if a sector is also providing an abnormally high amount of dividends. There's also a new tab called Tree Map. Google added the tree map function to their sheets and I really do like it. Here's what it looks like.
Read more »
- Weekly Roundup - May 23, 2015
Quick update this weekend since this past 1-1.5 weeks has been absolutely crazy with Luke. I don't want to go into too much detail here, but he ended up having both the best and worst day of his life so far but luckily he's still here and still...
- Weekly Roundup - April 4, 2015
Well I'm sure you noticed that I didn't get a lot of writing done this week. That wasn't for a lack of "want to" but just a matter of lack of time. Monday at the hospital with Luke, Tuesday I headed back to work, Wednesday and...
- Weekly Roundup - June 21, 2014
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