{"id":1169,"date":"2012-01-22T08:13:36","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T13:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2012-01-22T08:13:36","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T13:13:36","slug":"money-zen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2012\/01\/22\/money-zen\/","title":{"rendered":"Money &#038; Zen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenbook.asus.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1173\" title=\"ASUS-Zenbook-UX21E-DH71-angle-black\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ASUS-Zenbook-UX21E-DH71-angle-black-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>As we prepare for the big move this summer, and with many big expenditures looming on the horizon such as medical licensing and a trip to India, we&#8217;ve had to scrutinize our finances more carefully. One major decision has been to hold off selling our condo, and keep it instead as a rental property. In the process, we&#8217;ve had to look into refinancing our mortgage to take advantage of the low rates, finding a management company to look after the place when we leave town, and meeting with realtors to investigate rental prices in our neighborhood. I&#8217;m also discovering all kinds of junk I&#8217;ve accumulated over my past 8 years in this apartment, which I hope to sell off in the next few months. Meanwhile, I&#8217;ve finally gotten my hands on a new laptop which has been backordered since Black Friday. I&#8217;ve always been a fan of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asus.com\/\">Asus<\/a> motherboards and graphics cards, but this is my first experience with their ultrabook series. The <a href=\"http:\/\/zenbook.asus.com\/\">Zenbook<\/a> UX31 is purported to be a blend of form and function &#8211; featuring a sleek aluminum body reminiscent of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macbookair\/\">Macbook Air<\/a> but with better performance and longer battery life. My major gripe has been the shallow keyboard which is taking some time to get used to. Time will tell how I adjust to the new form factor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we prepare for the big move this summer, and with many big expenditures looming on the horizon such as medical licensing and a trip to India, we&#8217;ve had to scrutinize our finances more carefully. One major decision has been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2012\/01\/22\/money-zen\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}