Charity auctions are over…. »

By Mike on Feb 8, 2010 in Life and what it throws you | 0 Comments

I am going to donate all of the shipping and handling money that was paid as well, to help increase what the SFSPCA will be receiving this month. So since my PayPal account was empty at the beginning of these auctions, it looks like the donation will be roughly $335.

Spring cleaning starts a little early this year »

By Mike on Jan 26, 2010 in Life and what it throws you | 0 Comments

So it is only the end of January, but Stacy and I decided to do some elbows-deep spring cleaning on Sunday. We went thru each of our closets, pulled out the items that we don’t wear anymore, and this went into two piles. Goodwill and eBay. Actually only my things went to eBay, and the rest of my stuff and all of her stuff went to Goodwill.

Four years later: eBay sells Skype for the same price it paid for it »

By Mike on Sep 1, 2009 in Finance and Stocks | 0 Comments

If I were still an eBay investor, I’d be content to know that the Skype acquisition didn’t turn out to be a big negative, and hopefully the company can re-focus on its core business. Four years of holding onto a company, and dumping it for what you paid for it is a decent situation in these times we are in.