Archive for April, 2008

Double your pleasure, double your fun… »

I’m two days behind on this blog post, mostly because I really wanted to make my new stock purchase post first, but the stock I am after has had 3 strong days in a row, and a good earnings report, so I’m hoping for some fast money to get out of it, so I can [...]

Minty fresh. »

Back in October I started using a site called mint.com to start tracking my spending.  Having crossed the country into the land of “higher cost of living.” I wanted to see just how Stacy and I’s budgeting would do in this environment.  Groceries seem to be more expensive, and gas definitely is.  But what would [...]

Goodbye Lilly, we barely knew you… »

In the first or, hopefully, many stock blog posts, I am disclosing the first ever sale from one of my IRA accounts.  Back in August of 2000, I bought shares of Eli Lilly(symbol: LLY) after they had dropped off about 20% when they had lost a fight to keep prozac from being sold as a [...]

Podcast version of the beach trip »

So I did a narrative podcast of our trip to Fort Funston.  Stacy put it up on a page on her dot mac site.

Off to the beach… »

Stacy and I took Stuart to the beach at Fort Funston yesterday.  The weather was great, and Stuart even got some rough swimming lessons.  His doggy paddle skills are a bit rough, but from what my mother tells me I was the same way when I got started.  Stacy put together a page in iWeb. [...]

Old acquaintances… »

Stacy and I went out for dinner and drinks last night with two former co-workers of mine from boston.com.  We had a fun night of reminiscing on the past and getting caught up on where we are in our lives now.  It still seems strange to me that two people I used to work with are [...]