Flamigos and Trailers – A FinCon Recap

FinCon

We are on the plane ride back home from FinCon.  It’s just kind of settling in:

• All the great things we read, and learned.
• All the great people we met.
• All the fantastic friends that we reunited with.
• All the great beers that we drank.

Mainly, we spent the entire time studiously listening to every possible lecture, and talking to every possible sponsor in the Expo Hall.  We were in bed by 9 every night and up at 6 ready to take on the new day. If you hear any stories about us drinking massive quantities of beer, loudly laughing and yelling all hours of the night while sitting in a giant inflatable pink flamingo, it’s all lies.  I swear.  Honest.

The most exciting part of the whole thing? The movie trailer for the new documentary about FIRE.  If you haven’t seen it, where have you been????

 

Also, they are running a kickstarter campaign to get the funds to finish the project.  If you feel so inclined, help them out, we did.

You can do that here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/firedoc/playing-with-fire-the-documentary/description

We also got to meet a bunch of people on the PoF cruise to Cuba the four days prior to the conference.  We met so many fantastic and fascinating people on this cruise as well.  Again, our love and respect goes out to each and every one of you!  You have enriched our lives, and we can only hope that we return a small portion of the favor.

 

That’s it, that’s the entire recap?

So, yes, FinCon was great.  It was amazing to see all our old friends, and meeting tons of new awesome folks.  Too many to name and list, but know that each of you are a welcome addition to our lives.  You know who you are and we love each and every one of you.

But, seeing how everyone and their brother is going to be posting about all the great people they met and all the experiences they had, we’re going the complete opposite direction. You’ll be able to piece together what our week consisted of through all the other posts.

There are several people that we would have loved to have present, but they were busy with other things.  So, I’d like to take some time, a smidge of artistic license, and a little imagination to figure out what the hell they were doing that was so important they couldn’t come and hang out with all of us in Orlando this past week.

 

Here goes nothing:

Mr. Crazy Kicks was busy deep in the forest foraging for mushrooms. Last we heard he was baking pizzas and brewing beers for all the elves and unicorns he met along the way.

Countdown to FI ended up berating someone at the grocery store for spending $3.50 on a can of beans when there was a 2 for $.50 coupon available. Rumor has it they are still locked in a holding cell trying to determine the 10th change to their FI plans this year.

After 3 months of relative quiet, the Groovies’ fight-o-meter exploded with activity. Mrs. Groovy tore down the Groovy Ranch in a fit of rage, screaming “You wanna talk Trash?? Talk about this Trash!!!!”. Mr. Groovy was left behind to clean up the mess as he spent the week licking his wounds and plotting his revenge. She was last seen rampaging through the Appalachian mountains in Southern West Virginia, not unlike the Tasmanian Devil.

After being on a train for the last month, Fritz from The Retirement Manifesto was not able to assimilate to life outside of a metal tube on wheels. He instantly jumped back on a train, and rode as far north as he possibly could. When the railway stopped, he stripped naked and dove into the Arctic Ocean yelling something about swimming to see Santa Claus.

Tonya from Budget and the Beach was busy attempting to move Heaven and Earth to create a beach in Idaho. Apparently creating a beach in the middle of the Rocky mountains takes a little more effort than expected. Like most construction plans, it’s taking twice as long as promised and three times the budget.

Brendan from Take Charge of your Money spent last week wrangling Great White sharks off the coast of The Cape of Good Hope. He was attempting to train one to take him to Orlando, only to be bucked off his trusty steed a few miles off the coast of Florida and picked up by the Coast Guard. They forced him to return home. Apparently entering the country riding Great White is forbidden, who knew?

After buying massive amounts of BitCoin from vending machines in bars across the country, Mr. Pie retired to his end-of-the-world bunker. He is currently embarrassed to show his face after the plummet in value since the beginning of the year.

My Sons Father spent the week gathering together a Lego army to invade their neighbor’s house in a failed attempt at a hostile take-over.  Upon the failure, he decided against coming face to face with contenders  for his title of “The World’s Worst Blogger“.

JL Collins needed to set up his twitter account before he could come. So, he spent the week attempting to figure out the twitterverse. He eventually figured it out, on Sunday… the day after FinCon ended. Check him out!

Millennial Revolution finally hit their breaking point with traveling.  Fed up, their house-horniness got the best of them and they closed on their first house, a beautiful 6,000 sqft McMansion in the outskirts of Toronto.

Happy Philosopher has plenty of holes in his jeans from his no purchase year. It’s begun to wear on his confidence and he’s now only showing his face at night during his side-hustle as a tooth fairy.  He was running around sprinkling quarters on pillows throughout the land.

Mr. Tako was stuck in his house with spreadsheets attempting to figure out whether a 3-D printer was worth while.  Once he decided it was, he proceeded to print himself all the bowls and utensils needed in order to perfect his salsa recipe.

Anyone else that we missed that was busy during the week of FinCon?  What were they up to???

See all of you next year?

After all the excitement from last week, we’re hoping to see everyone again next year.  When we meet again, all the new friends will be old friends, and there will be room for even more new friends!

We’re also open to seeing everyone more often than once a year.  So, hit us up!  Let’s make it happen!!!  We’ll grab a couple beers!