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Using Jekyll for this Blog
When I transitioned my blog to a virtual server many years ago, it worked adequately with the version of Wordpress and MySQL that I used. Over the years, Wordpress and MySQL required more and more resources to run. I didn't really want to upgrade my virtual server for a hobby, so I kept tweaking the settings to ensure that the server would still run. Unfortunately the server started having more and more problems over the years from running out of memory to increased load that took the server down.
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New blog
I've converted my blog to a static blog so that I no longer have to maintain the database and other things that were causing me issues.
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The Road to Retirement
At the height of the pandemic, I started to think a lot about retirement. When I was 12, my father started me on the path to retirement by setting up an IRA for me. While this may seem young, experts say that time is the best way to build a nest egg (unfortunately due to tax law changes, I can't establish an IRA for my son as it requires him to have income to offset his contributions). Throughout my life I've been thrifty (some may say frugal) with my finances. Combined with being hard working and frankly, quite lucky, financially I'll be ready for retirement.
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Working From Home
There has been a lot of discussion in the last few years about people working from home where it went from almost no one to most office workers working from their homes. My experience working from home differs from most people as it has been part of who I am for 25 years, way before it was what every one did.