graugrau

If you want an easy way to add more greens to your diet, try a green smoothie. Just blend together a bunch of frozen spinach+banana+apple (my default), or spinach+banana+frozen blueberries (tastes chocolatey for some reason...), or whatever combo of leafy greens+fruit you want. It tastes awesome, and it makes it super easy to get a pound or more of greens every day.

Has anyone actually felt noticeably different when going healthier, though? Or is it more a long-term thing? I went from a pretty average lifestyle (macaroni and cheese everyday, and no exercise except walking everywhere) to a super healthy one a couple years ago, but I can't say I feel any different. [Though I haven't been objectively measuring myself in any way.]

What are the freelancing expenses for? (Customer support and creating new card categories?)

Side note: you might want to change the color of the "payments processing" slice of the expenses pie chart, since it's pretty impossible to see with the current background. But anyways, this information is really cool.

What is the working environment like at the CIA and Pentagon? I've always imagined that government work is about as far from a startup atmosphere as you can get.

Could you give some examples of the kinds of analyst/research work people without PhDs do at these places? What kind of "formal background" do you need to get them to even consider you for one of the more thinky analyst/researcher positions?

I've looked before at some of the places you mentioned, but it seemed extremely difficult to get someone to even talk to you about the interesting analyst/research positions if you didn't have a PhD.

My background: For the longest time, I thought I would go to grad school and become a professor in pure math. I love doing research and don't care about money...but I hated the whole bureaucracy and lack of real freedom (until you're a tenured professor) of it all. I really miss having a research environment, though, so like the OP I've been wondering for a while how to get back into this.

Sounds like you might like living in one of the Hacker Houses? http://hackerhouse.bluwiki.com

Is rock climbing something you can do alone? (Indoors rock climbing or something similar, at least? I guess outdoors climbing by yourself would be pretty dangerous =P.) It's something I've wanted to get into, but I prefer solo activities.