That was two weeks?!?

So it's been a couple of weeks since I posted to this thing. Have I been reading (while I haven't been writing)? A little. But I also bought a car and a new computer. So those sucked up a bunch of time.

I skimmed very quickly through Everything You Know About Money Is Wrong by Karen Ramsey. It turns out she's based in Seattle, where I am (nearby) and apparently is not (closely) related to Dave Ramsey, who is also a financial advisor (see previous post). However, her message mostly jibes with Dave's: get rid of debt, save as much as you can. But Karen is not as negative on all borrowing as Dave is. Her rule of thumb is that logic should be the driving force in money matters. But when logic doesn't feel right, go with your heart - just make sure everyone in the family is communicating about it.

Now I'm in the middle of another of Dave's books, Financial Peace Revisited. It is much of the same. I think his Total Money Makeover sends a much stronger message on the subject. I'm going to have to read it again and have my wife look at it, too.

Two new books from the bookstore go on the shelf (hopefully for attention this summer): Final Reckoning: The Fate of Bester by Greg Keyes and The Philip K. Dick Reader from the Philip K. Dick Society. The former is the third book of a series about characters from the TV show Babylon 5, focusing on Psi Corps. I have finished the first of the three (along with many other B5 titles) and look forward to reading the rest of the story. The latter has the short stories that inspired the movies Paycheck, Total Recall and Minority Report. Fun!