A post over at Free Money Finance about growing your net worth, got me thinking about my emergency fund. I had sorta forgotten about it – in a good way, because I've had it running on autopilot for the last several months. I have my direct deposit split so that $200 per paycheck goes into my emergency fund account, and the rest is split among other budget categories. It's nice to see that I'm now about 30% toward my goal (I updated the meter on the right).

A clever YouTuber (would that be a Potato 2.0?) came up with a brilliant way to demonstrate the effect of Obama's proposed "cuts" of $100 million compared to the $3.5 trillion proposed budget. (Thanks to Randy Barnett at the Volokh Conspiracy for sharing.)