It's been 4 years since I updated this blog, so I feel like I finally owe my legions of readers who refresh this site every day in hopes of seeing some kind of update with their long-awaited payoff. In that time, the good ship Cheapo sprung many leaks and ran aground several times but through it all remained somewhat in tact. One of the key lessons I learned along this journey is that making a series of life changes, even if you fall off the wagon with a lot of them, the ones that you stick with will at least hold some of your progress together. For me, it was the routine of eating my balanced power breakfast every morning. No matter how many sedentary, unlogged gastronomical disaster days I would have, sticking to my power breakfast routine every morning meant that there was at least one meal that would help somewhat contain the damage of even the worst days. Another lesson that I learned is patience and persistence are at least at odds with if not enemies of perfection. If we