Continuing to transfer from my davidhuang.org website, with updated notes, my old financial management articles written for the art business magazine, Art Calendar, here is the third one looking at housing. Getting housing costs under control is probably one of the biggest things I’ve ever done to better not just my finances, but my life in general. My homestead has become a place providing me a deep sense of security with money, food, and energy. So without further ado, here is the old article with my updating comments sprinkled within.
Continue reading “AC3 – Housing You Can Afford”Month: January 2020
AC2 – Your Real Hourly Wage
Continuing to transfer from my davidhuang.org website, with updated notes, my old financial management articles written for the art business magazine, Art Calendar, here is the second one focusing on your real hourly wage. I feel like this is a very powerful conceptual tool for getting a handle on ones finances while also gaining a deeper understanding of yourself and what you value.
Continue reading “AC2 – Your Real Hourly Wage”AC1 – Making a Living
Very soon I am going to be moving my davidhuang.org website to a new platform and hosting server. It’s not that I really want to do this. It’s more that the software it is running on is SO old, out of date, and no longer supported that it’s going to break as soon as the server gets the update that should have happened many months ago. So I will be rebuilding that site from scratch in WordPress here on the account that is hosting this blog. Unfortunately what that also means is that most of what I’ve built up on the davidhuang.org site over the many years will simply go away and be lost. There is no easy way to transfer it all. I do hope to reconstruct some of the more popular sections as time permits.
Continue reading “AC1 – Making a Living”Off-grid Solar Living When There is No Sun
The weather forecast for my area tomorrow is looking pretty ugly! The rain could be starting just about anytime this evening and continuing through the night. At some point Saturday it’s supposed to transition into snow as the precipitation continues unabated into the early hours of Sunday, with as much as 6 inches of the white stuff predicted to accumulate. The catch here is that transition stage where the ice is supposed to come. Lots and lots of ice, freezing rain accumulating to as much as 3/4 inch of ice. It’s the ice that really causes the problems around here. We can generally deal with rain and snow just fine. Should this ice storm come to pass there will probably be lots of downed trees and plenty of people without power tomorrow. Being off-grid and generating all my own power through solar panels, downed power lines aren’t likely to cause me issues. Ironically though it was still looking like I would be powerless during the storm, just for different reasons.
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