Hobbies and Construction

This weekend my buddy Jarrod is coming up to install 12 canned lights in out kitchen and dinning room. I'm praying for smooth installation with our plaster ceilings. Jarrod says he has a special tool for cutting holes into plaster.

Today Jodi has a hair appointment in SF. I'm taking Cal Train up right now (while writing this on my BlackBerry) so i don't have a car at Bart. We're going to meet up later for Peruvian food in the Filmore at one of my favorite places.

On the Hobby front i finally picked up a set of golf clubs and have been going to the range. Yesterday i hit 200 range balls and was actually tired when i was done. Who knew?

As for new cool things i found there is a web site called Mint. Mint is for the generation that does not balance a checkbook. In about 2 minutes i hooked mint up to my bank account (it's very secure, and banks have verified it) and mint sucked in every transaction over the past 90 days. Then it categorizes everything into categories like "Groceries," "Gas," "mortgage" etc. It plots everything into slick pie charts so you know what % of your money goes to what. You can then drill into a category and get a further breakdown. Take Food as any example, you can see what is groceries vs. fast food vs. restaurants. Long story short this can help you know what you need to cut back on, and set budgets, another part of the tool. That Hobby category is about to go up a % or two with golf in the picture.