In the summer of 2014, when I turned 41, I set myself the goal of retiring from paid-work by the age of 52. This blog charts my own strategy and progress, and explores different theories of financial independence and 'extreme early retirement'. It also provides the odd tip on how you might also retire early!
1 Nov 2021 2 minute read 0 comments RealSociology
The Earth Splinter is one of the more challenging Splinters to build on a budget for competing in the silver leagues - so many of the cards are so very expensive when compared to the Death and Life Splinters, for example, and here are relatively few...
31 Oct 2021 2 minute read 0 comments RealSociology
Last week's Splinterlands Challenge of the Week was to showcase the Dragon Splinter, and we've defo been here before, but fair play, Dragons are awesome! And in this battle I showcase just ONE legendary dragon card that REALLY packs a punch in Bronz...
3 Oct 2021 2 minute read 4 comments RealSociology
This week's Splinterlands Challenge of the Week was to showcase the Crystal Jaguar from the Life Splinter. NB I'm writing this on the new 1UP front end, an interesting new project from @flauwy, just testing out how it works! You can read the introduc...
28 Sep 2021 1 minute read 0 comments RealSociology
This week's Splinterlands Challenge of the Week was to showcase the Centauri Mage from the Earth Splinter. This a fantastic card for mid to higher mana battles in Bronze League as the Mage comes with a buff Level 1 - return fire, and so great defenc...
18 Sep 2021 2 minute read 0 comments RealSociology
This week's Splinterlands Challenge of the Week was to showcase the Wave Runner from the Water Splinter... At Level one this is a reasonable card - 5 mana with reach and pretty decent health when he takes over as a second tank, and 2 damage to...
12 Sep 2021 1 minute read 0 comments RealSociology
This week's Splinterlands Challenge of the Week was to showcase the Ant Miners from the Fire Splinter. I like the low mana, I like scavenge, but then we have a dismal set of treble 1s for melee attack, health and speed, meaning this is a challenging...
4 Sep 2021 3 minute read 0 comments RealSociology
4 MIN READ724 WORDS This week's challenge was to showcase the Neutral Grumpy Dwarf. This is quite a nice card for players new to Splinterlands as he has reach from the outset and, for a low level card, OK shields/ health for reasonably low...
24 Aug 2021 3 minute read 0 comments RealSociology
This week's Splinterlands Challenge of the Week was to showcase any card from the Dragon Splinter, but I couldn't just pick one so I've opted for TWO excellent budget choices which I think should form part of anyone's line up if yer playing in Bronze...
7 Aug 2021 2 minute read 0 comments RealSociology
This week's Splinterlands Challenge of the Week was to showcase the Cave Slug from Life Splinter. The Cave Slug is an opportunity monster and picks up scavenge at level 6 (his price-optimum level), and with 5 health at this level, that's pretty high...
2 Aug 2021 3 minute read 0 comments RealSociology
This week's Splinterlands Challenge of the Week was to showcase Beatrix Ironhand from the Earth Splinter. Unfortunately I don't have Miss Ironhand (I assume she's not married) up to an optimum, let alone Max level, so I present here an alt-bat...
