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Kirk Enjoying Dim Sum

My lovely wife Angelle made us Dim Sum today. It is a bit of a tradition with us. We would always go out to have Dim Sum on the weekends. One day Angelle learned to make Dim Sum and it is now a wonderful experience that we share at home. We use many of our souvenirs from our travels. It is just not our style to leave them sitting in a display case.

Angelle having tea with Stella Wong

We spent almost two months in Asia on our honeymoon. One day in Hong Kong we happened by a little tea shop run by a lady name Stella Wong. Stella Wong is the best sales person I have ever met. She did not try to sell us anything. Stella invited my wife to sit down and have tea. She kept filling up Angelle’s cup every time it was empty. After many cups, finally, my wife did not finish her tea and Stella quit pouring so we looked around the shop. Angelle had moved quite quickly and picked out two tea sets. I kind of liked another red tea set with the dragons so Angelle suggested we buy that one as well. It is such a nice memory and one that I relive every time I sip tea from one of my red dragon tea cups as you can see in the picture at the top of the page.

We like to use all of our souvenirs. It brings back such pleasant memories for us. What do we do if we chip a treasured souvenir? That is the time that we put the souvenir in the display case. What happens if a treasured souvenir breaks? We are both much more important than our things. When something we need breaks we just say “Oh good. We get a new one now.” When something we don’t need breaks… well… we didn’t need it did we? 😊

Angelle and Stella Wong

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Kirk McDougall's 3 Rules of Income

These are my 3 Rules of Income.

1 - You are spending more money than you are making. You will eventually go bankrupt if this continues.

2 - You are spending as much money as you are making. You will be doing the same thing forever if this continues.

3 - You are spending less money than you are making. You will eventually be wealthy if this continues.

The third rule has helped me incredibly. The first two... not so much.

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Hoey the Truck

Growing up I spent about a third of my time on the farm with my Gramma, Grampa, and Uncle Hoey. How did he get the name Hoey? When I was very little I tried to say "Uncle Harold" but what came out was "Hoey, Hoey, Hoey" so that was my Uncle's new name.
As I grew older I was able to help out on the farm shovelling wheat and eventually driving the grain truck. In Harvest I would drive the truck out to the combine, load up with wheat, and drive it back to the farm yard. I backed up to the auger which carried the wheat up to the top of the grain bin. It was a bit tricky and if I did not back up just right it would take longer to unload and delay the entire operation. At night Gramma brought the half ton truck out so that she could shine the headlights on the area where I was backing up. This was in addition to all of the other things that Gramma did on the farm. I tried to sneak into the yard so that Gramma would not hear me and she would be able to get so…

Space Game

In the late seventies (yes, the 1970s) I was enrolled in an Electronics Engineering Technology program. There was some minor programming involved. I had to write my first program on ticker tape but I loved it right away. I could write some code and then watch the machines do what I asked them to do. It was just awesome.
The school had some minor games on the central computer. One of them was a space game. No one had personal computers at the time so this was brand new to me. Just picture yourself at 23 years old being able to play your first computer game. It was mesmerizing.
We did not have terminals, just teletype machines, so each move we made in the game had to be printed out. It took a lot of paper. And now we see the problem. The school shut down the computer games because of all the paper use. It was a sad, dark time indeed.
We were all quite upset so in programming class I inquired about the space game only to be told that it was not coming back. Then I asked “What…

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