"The longer I put off starting my own firm, the longer it can remain a dream and not something I screwed up at." – Ted Mosby, How I Met Your Mother

Well, it's been a week since I last posted. Why is it that whenever I start getting into the grove of posting regularly, I somehow seem to derailed. Anyway, I logged in to respond to a comment on my post about the myths of "free, universal" health care, and figured I'd better do a real post. Coming up shortly...

What do you do when you're pissed off? Do you let your anger become a debilitation, or do you find a way to redirect your energy into something constructive?

This post has nothing to do with personal finance....

Have you ever had one of those days when you are just absolutely drained? Today is one of those for me, and it's not even done yet.

I know I haven't posted much in the last week or so, but I have a couple posts in progress. It's snowing heavily tonight, so I likely will be inside and not doing much. Or shoveling.

It's a sad story of expectations and undeserved feelings of entitlement.

My wife is the president of the parent-teacher group at our daughter's school, and each year the group sponsors the purchase of "spirit wear" where students and parents can order clothing emblazoned with the school's mascot. As such, last year my wife did some research into who could produce the clothing. She preferred to go with a local vendor, and in asking around found out that the uncle of one of the children in our daughter's class owned a screen printing business.

As a company, Google just doesn't seem to be able to stop its own growth. Not that it wants to – why would it? But a part of me wonders if it's not starting to act like a giant black hole that will soon suck all aspects of life into its dark and hungry maw.

For a long time, I've used a program called Keyring for Palm OS on my Sony Clié. It's a really good program that has served me well, but a few months ago I decided that my pockets were starting to get really full what with my Clié, a cell phone, keys, USB drive, money, my new Creative Zen Vision W, and various and sundry other items. I didn't want to start carrying a purse, so I figured it was time to trim down some of the accessories I was carrying.

I glanced at a Yahoo! Finance article this morning that claimed you would save well over a million bucks by not watching TV – for the rest of your life. It's an interesting article, and I encourage everyone to read it for some insights about both the upfront and "hidden" costs of watching TV.

But it did raise my dander up a bit toward the end, especially in the sections related to commercials and "opportunity costs."