Procrastinating Again
Feb. 12th, 2006 09:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebToday a couple friends and I went for a walk then ate way too much Indian food.
I also watched the movie "Cube," recommended by one of Robin's co-workers as a cult classic rather than just another mediocre horror movie. If you've seen the preview, you've seen the entire plot, but none of the message. I don't generally watch horror movies; this one was okay. Interesting message: people should look at the whole picture instead of just what they're directly involved with. Otherwise, who knows what's going to happen to the part you're working on? I don't need to watch the movie again and again, though. It was also kind of a sci-fi movie with, as usual, very bad (unrealistic) science. And it gives you a look at social interaction, although this didn't seem overly realist either.
I cooked again--a low-fat pumpkin bread that did not work. And I did a load of laundry.
Yes, I still don't want to clean. I did put away one piece of paper. I guess I'll go put away a few more things when I finish this entry.
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I learned one final interesting thing from the book I've been reading. Another way to measure your wealth is in time. Given what you currently have, how long could you live at your current lifestyle level? I get the idea that the way you calculate this is to find your current expenditure level, and then divide your total wealth by that amount. (So, when that amount is the same as your life expectancy, I guess that means you're financially independent.) I guess if I sold everything and kept the money in a money market account that could keep up with inflation, I could last about eight years at current spending levels. And I like to pretend I will live to be 100, although based on my family history, I probably have a lifespan of only mid-eighties. Much more than eight years either way, but it could be fun watching that year measure get larger.
It's still not my favorite measure of wealth which is calculating how much income you could generate from your assets, and then figure out how well you can live on that.
I also watched the movie "Cube," recommended by one of Robin's co-workers as a cult classic rather than just another mediocre horror movie. If you've seen the preview, you've seen the entire plot, but none of the message. I don't generally watch horror movies; this one was okay. Interesting message: people should look at the whole picture instead of just what they're directly involved with. Otherwise, who knows what's going to happen to the part you're working on? I don't need to watch the movie again and again, though. It was also kind of a sci-fi movie with, as usual, very bad (unrealistic) science. And it gives you a look at social interaction, although this didn't seem overly realist either.
I cooked again--a low-fat pumpkin bread that did not work. And I did a load of laundry.
Yes, I still don't want to clean. I did put away one piece of paper. I guess I'll go put away a few more things when I finish this entry.
**
I learned one final interesting thing from the book I've been reading. Another way to measure your wealth is in time. Given what you currently have, how long could you live at your current lifestyle level? I get the idea that the way you calculate this is to find your current expenditure level, and then divide your total wealth by that amount. (So, when that amount is the same as your life expectancy, I guess that means you're financially independent.) I guess if I sold everything and kept the money in a money market account that could keep up with inflation, I could last about eight years at current spending levels. And I like to pretend I will live to be 100, although based on my family history, I probably have a lifespan of only mid-eighties. Much more than eight years either way, but it could be fun watching that year measure get larger.
It's still not my favorite measure of wealth which is calculating how much income you could generate from your assets, and then figure out how well you can live on that.
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