My sympathies. I'm in the same boat. My part made it from the UK to Sydney, cleared customs and then tracking updates stopped a bit over a week ago. Good thing we have a second car.
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Not shady, and not strictly a finfluencer either, but Chris Kohler has more hits than misses in his finance inspired short videos.
I taught myself VBA when I inherited a job that involved taking data from multiple sources and producing summary reports of various types for multiple stakeholders. The person before me spent days each week doing it, it took me about a week of learning and playing to bring that down to 5 minutes or so.
I found VBA useful for dealing with administrivia.
I ended up doing similar things multiple times afterwards, with variations on source data (excel, text files, word docs), source data location (local drive, network, databases, SharePoint) and output (pivots, charts, tables, text files, email, word docs, etc.) depending on what was needed. Someone else mentioned data validation already.
Automate the boring stuff.
Similar to their concept of the post-yardwork, let me introduce "the 'miring", the beer you have after completing some DIY project, drunk in silent contemplation of the result.
Partner: "All done love?" Me: "Yep, just having a 'miring. Be with you in a minute."
Toowoomba is missing? I had a boss from there once. Very proud of the fact it was the second biggest inland city in the country.
Having been on a few Segway tours I was surprised when they stopped making them. Easy to learn, fun to ride. Eventually they will age out and be gone. I wouldn't buy one for myself to have at home, but for whizzing around sightseeing when on holiday they're great.
One of my favourite things about being retired is the ability to go to the shops in the middle of the day, when it's quiet. No crowds. Parking. No rush. Bliss!
Been through this.
After an allergy test revealed that I had a dust allergy I bought a Dyson to replace our cheap generic vacuum cleaner and thought it was the bee's knees. Then the power switch went. And it would clog the power head constantly. Then, at about 10 years old it packed it in completely when the motor died.
Replaced that with a Miele which hasn't missed a beat. So much so we bought a second when we moved into our current house (one for upstairs, one for downstairs, I'm lazy). In terms of suction they are the same or better, but ergonomically they shit all over the Dyson. Not as purple though.
Not OP, but fellow Aussie who's mounted the odd dryer upside down on the wall like this. The dryer is able to be used either way up. The ones I've done tended to come with stickers to place over the control panel so the text is readable again. I've never bothered.
I'm retired, so yeah, time off work isn't an issue. We get away pretty regularly, domestically and internationally. I guess about two months a year, in aggregate, on average?
Vacuum Cleaners
We have four.
One lives in my backyard shed, for cleanups and dust collection.
One lives in my garage, for cleaning the cars.
Our house is split level, so we have one for upstairs and another one for downstairs. All to save carrying it up and down the six steps that divide the front and back of the house. These two are the same make and model.
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These sorts of calculations always do my head in.
It's likely that the $4M has some rate of return, meaning that you could do this on a bit less. Well, as long as the return exceeded the increase in median income each year. You don't want the capital to run out before you.