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It was like one million degrees this morning, so I decide to hit up the Dunkin’ Donuts for a Coffee Coolata!

Well anyways, on my way over there I saw this groomed young man with a table set up in the middle of the entranceway to our business park (when I say “Business Park” don’t think for a second that I’m not coming into work with a Jimmy Buffett shirt and some Crocs on … that’s how I do business) and on his well-crafted sign it was written “Recent College Grad Needs A Job”! Not only that, but he was wearing a freaking black suit … even the CEOs around here rock the Hawaiian shirts and shorts!

After I got back to the office, I downed my frozen concoction (Thank you D.D.s … you guys kick major ass) and then sat down to ponder what I have just witnessed … could I help this kid out somehow? I know we all have to start somewhere (my first job after college was in a dirty paper mill … however, my salary was much larger than most people I knew at the time, which allowed me to pay off my student loans in less than a year) so what could I do to lend another human being a hand? This same internal conversation ended with me calling the local news network and telling them about this resourceful kid, and they said they’d be right over (I’m the last person you’d be able to call a media whore, but I was curious as hell and just wanted to help). Continued

“The Week in Review: Money Issues” is my weekly blog research on financial topics that define us as Americans, and shape the way we should do business.

It’s moving day (I really always hated moving day, to be quite honest)!

And before you start telling me how it’s so easy to hire a moving company, let me interrupt you with a “Not as long as I have both my hands and legs!” Really, I got myself into this mess (I’m a hoarder, my wife would say … I use the term collector. LOL) so I better be man enough to dig myself out of it! Let me just say this, however … “Hey dumpster divers, 3100 S Dixie Highway, Boca Raton, Florida! Lots of good stuff!” She made me get rid of the entire living room set and a ton of other knick-knacky, beachy sort of things (sorry surfers … I’m keeping the boards!). Well, it’s all in the moving truck now, and ready to go to a new home …

Here goes some great reading material that I dug up for you this week … enjoy while I bust my butt unpacking all this heavy stuff: Continued

“The Week in Review: Money Issues” is my weekly blog research on financial topics that define us as Americans, and shape the way we should do business.

Oh man, listen to the week I was forced to have …

First off, my new Ryan Howard authentic road jersey arrived on Wednesday and it was way too small, so I had to return it (this isn’t a big deal … I just wanted to let you know that I’m representing my team, after all is said and done). Then my crappy property management called me after two weeks of daily harassing phone calls from yours truly (in my defense: they’re letting new people into my complex for $150/month less than what I have been paying for three years. My advice: If you’re planning to move to Boca Raton, stay far away from Investments Limited [a.k.a The Apartment People] as these people are scum-bag, rip-off artists) to tell me that they can lower my next yearly lease (which is coming up soon) by $42 buck a month (whoa … don’t do me any favors!). Needless to say, I told them that I’ll be moving out this time around (jerk-offs) and good luck finding respectable tenants in this buyer’s market! Oh, as for my workload: it was super-manageable this week — I love my career!

Now, on to the good stuff (at least in my opinion): Continued

I did it!

I actually drove from my pad in Boca Raton, to my parents place up in PA (22 loooonnnnggg hours later). Then I had tons of fun for a week … and then I reversed direction and headed back home (21 even looonnngggeeerrr hours, with a whining dog, tons of holiday traffic, a fiancée who maybe wanted to punch me in the head a couple of times and 5 Red Bulls later).

That lengthy trip by car gave me so much time to think about everything (the playoff hopes of the Philadelphia Eagles … “Whose God is the right God?” … “What exactly are Dipping Dots made of?” etc. and etc.)! And then my focus, as it should have been the whole time, turned towards the other drivers on the road. Then I did some further analysis, and figured out what I considered to be my top 5 worst driving mistakes (which in turn are mostly performed by straight-up dingbats, morons, freaks, people I want to kick in the mouth, pain-in-the-asses and anyone else who doesn’t give two bits about keeping the roads safe around them). Enjoy (and change your ways if they sound familiar): Continued

My fiancée, Jen, loves everything about Jimmy Buffett!

His beachcomber lifestyle epitomizes a relaxed attitude. Take for example one of his greatest hits Margaritaville, of which she tells me only “posers” listen to (color me poser then). In this song, Jimmy (as a young man in Key West) is living the high life in a “bummy” sort of way! His days are filled with eating shrimp and sponge cake, losing his salt shaker constantly and getting hammered off of margaritas on the daily (which are horrible, by the way). This cheap ass can’t even afford a new pair of sandals (in the song, he “blows” his old crappy ones out).

Jen’s wanting a piece of this way of life is the reason we moved to South Florida. Too bad we didn’t get all the way down to Conch Country. Instead, we’re stuck in a far worse place than we started off with: Boca Raton. Before you damn “snowbird” New Yorkers jump down my throat, let me explain why this place has nothing to do with the beach lifestyle that many people would associate this part of the Sunshine State with … Continued