DubWagner's Spot

  Working for them ad dollars I stated this blog with no real idea with what I wanted to do with and even now, not really sure what content I want to put out here. Maybe experiment some more with this very loose formatting, such as this, then mix in some educational pieces on topics I've learned about recently, maybe do more review stuff like the Robinhood review here but not really as much of a hard push to refer people to use their service. Don't get me wrong, I think it is a good piece. I put a lot of work into it to try to make a balanced case and educate on certain topics to get more people to use the app and get me free stocks. This leads to the next point. My one persistent motivator is, unfortunately, the dollar. Dollars motivate me to get out of bed because a job pays me to be there and do stuff. Dollars motivate me to watch investment content, legit educational stuff not "make a million tonight" type stuff, so I can try to invest well to make more dollars. I...

Business is near equal making the money and doing the paperwork We are for sure moving forward with this business deal. I personally typed up the agreements and I am really impressed, if I do say so myself, at how they turned out. Now wrenching some of the info out of my wife was oh so fun. "I don't know, we will do it like this(a specific way that was extremely confusing and convoluted), we agreed not in writing on stuff..." And on.  Now this is all past, the deal is closed, the dog grooming shop is half hers. This is honestly exciting and a little anxiety inducing. I have really high hopes for them both to make this something really special. A concern, or maybe more a musing, is that neither my wife or her partner are paperwork and accounting type of people. Knowing them both fairly well, I can safely say that they both are great at operations but not numbers. As I'm sure most people know or could assume based on working in businesses, business is a LOT of paperwork...

 Getting the chance to buy a business In the last week, my wife was given the opportunity to buy the dog grooming business she had been working at for the last 4 years. This is really exciting and potentially game changing but I need a place to really lay out how I see the potential upside and risks. Upside: Oh sweet potential The biggest and easiest question to ask is: How much could we make?  Obviously, the potential in this business is good to even consider it. It is not struggling, financially, as of yet but it is close. The current owner wants out and has been checked out of the business for awhile. This has led to broke down equipment(leaky bath tub, broken grooming tables) and a generally lackluster facility due to neglect and ignorance. It's primarily cosmetic though some actual repairs and replacements will need to be done. Looking past that, and into the numbers, the business is solid and the overhead is soooooooo cheap, Seriously, like $1/sq ft. If you know anything...

I got this.  A few days of slapping out some freeform thoughts online almost daily has really increased the free space in my head. It is helping dump some thoughts out and really helping me get back into a writing groove. It’s the pouring of ideas into something that has some permanence really is something I needed. Writing is my medium and I feel, while I have a blunt and dim style of communicating right now, some of my past works have been quite decent. I’ve read them and then tried writing something after. I really don’t want to talk about that train wreck of an experience.  This has my creativity really starting to get the smallest of embers starting to rekindle after having a burnt pile of ash in my mind for ages. More like 3-4 years but it has been awhile, what with life and lack of drive that follows getting in a “comfortable routine” that doesn’t really stimulate your mind.  I don’t know about anyone else but novel experiences, a la my vacation to Delaware and the...

Seriously Considering Solar So recently, I’ve been bs-ing around with the idea of doing solar at my house. Now this is just a consideration but I’ve found some of the reasons to be compelling though there are some drawbacks. As I see it, there are the pros and cons. And I’m not really sold on it yet but I figured writing out what I’m thinking may clarify some things. Pros The way I see it, solar has some upside with the right circumstances.  First, electric bills being reduced would be nice. Maybe take that savings and do some work with it like renovations or something to that effect. Second, if we reduce our energy consumption enough and the local utility has a way to do it, selling electricity wholesale to the grid could bring with it some additional income. Income producing assets are a really attractive offer to me. I like the flexibility having recurring income brings and its part of my investment objectives long term. These 2, provided of course our provider does have a buyba...

 Sleep is Paramount  I now feel like I’m back to being me again. These last few days have been a real challenge. I didn’t realize how sleep deprived I had become because I was getting the hours of sleep but I was not actually getting quality.  Melatonin, My Hero I tried taking a melatonin supplement last night to see if that would help me break the brain fog and the melancholy. Surprisingly it did work that quick and easy. I feel alive and really way more focused on doing work for real today than the last 2 days.  Now I hazard a guess at this but I’ve read that melatonin is highly effective in those with ADHD. I’m not diagnosed but damn does my mind like to wonder off and go from this idea to this one to this one to this one... It’s fun sometimes to just let it go but I have to work and I have to focus. It’s hard other times when you really want to just write, for example, and you have an annoying song stuck in your head while thinking of that last funny YouTube vide...

 Here goes... something. After falling into a rut in most aspects of my life( in my job, in my daily routine, my weekends, even down to sleeping is just another thing instead of what I really enjoyed most after a hard day’s work, no real social life because frick all the people) I have come to think I need a change.  I’ve just felt super disengaged at work, at home, in the few relationships I do have and with my side work. I haven’t decided concretely on what the change is that I need but one is needed.  There are a number of things, big and small I’m trying out. To start, I tried applying to several new jobs, moved my floundering WordPress blog over to Blogger because for some reason I do much better with it, I’ve started try to stay up later or go to bed earlier, tried new hobbies, changed up my investments. This has been... somewhat helpful. It feels like a good starting point. One thing I’ve decided to try out is daily posting. If I like it, I’ll keep doing it. If not...

 The Plan The main goal I have building up this blog/ journal/ whatever I want it to be is to be an outlet for the myriad of thoughts I have. Hopefully I can distill those thoughts down to cohesive ideas and just share it with the world.  I’ll try to get certain topics on a cycle of like once a week or two weeks having a legit topic based piece in addition to the more free form pieces I found I enjoy putting out.  I’d like to start this project off letting everyone know I am definitely open to writing opinion pieces on nearly any topic.