For some reason this flu just won’t completely go away, so writing articles of substance hasn’t been easy this week. To bring everyone up to speed, I’m doing the monthly review today for the blog (a few days late) and an update of the S.M.A.R.T. goals for the year.

Update to the S.M.A.R.T. 2008 goals

If you remember, my goal was to replace my mortgage payment with alternate income from sources other than salary. Below is the up-to-date chart of my progress.

As you can see, for the month, revenue is down from Jan (but that was to be expected) but at $325, not bad for a new blog. Better than I expected. Still a long way to go. Maybe we can get GLBL to update his goal too.

News From Around

>> The The Great Quicken Giveaway Contest is back on. Apparently the magic word DOES appear (sporadically) in the feed. I will be giving away the first copy Saturday, so stay tuned.

Note: As a contingency, you can also e-mail me directly at tips@creditwithdrawal.com and request to be entered w/o the secret word if you can’t find it in the feed somewhere. I’ll trust you have enough integrity to be signed up anyway. How else would you make sure you receive all these wonderful articles otherwise?!??

>> This week the M-Network invited Mrs. Micah to join. She has accepted and has become the newest M-Network Member. Congrats to MrsMicah, who has always been a friend to us here at CW also.

>> I’m going to be joining in the The Snowflake Revolution (assuming they let me in). I’ve ALWAYS wanted to be an official flake. I’ve been in training for years!

That’s it for the moment. Hope you’re doing something fun and financially smart today!!