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Well, I have to be honest. I was disappointed with the way that my T-shirt and sweatshirt auctions went. Quite a few of the shirts didn’t even sell for the 99 cents that I started them at, and a few of them sold for exactly 99 cents.

Even with the incentive that the auctions were being held in the name of charity, it just didn’t spark much interest. So I have decided to err on the side of generosity. 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.

That said, I think this is a pretty nice sized donation to make. But seeing that number and knowing that how little some of the shirts sold for, it would have been nice to raise up closer to $500.

I haven’t written to give an update on my MBA in quite some time so I figured this would be as good of a time as any. The spring semester of the part-time program at San Jose State University begins right after the new year, so I am already midway thru the two courses that I am taking. Both classes are core requirement classes:

• BUS220 is Accounting Principles
• BUS250 is Managerial Law and Ethics

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Most of us are used to hearing this question whenever we pull out the plastic from our wallets. Over the past few years, I have flip flopped on my answer to this question depending on my current situation. And now, that I have worked myself out of debt, I think the situation may be even more complex. Let’s go over the history of things to see how we got into this situation.
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Here is the first post since joining Project 52.
I recently signed up at the web site Lending Club after considering doing so for a while.  A friend of mine had signed up for it and it looked intriguing.  It’s nothing new for sure, a quick search into their crunchbase profile tells us they got started in May 2007 as a Facebook application to promote peer-to-peer lending.  In a nutshell, it means if you need $100 and I have $100 to loan out, they put us together.  You don’t need to go to a bank for a loan, and I can get more interest on my money than a savings account would give me.
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When I restarted this blog for yet another time LAST year (yes 2009, you are last year) I really wanted to focus on quality feature type writing. I always preferred “magazine” style writing as we called it in journalism school to the news reporting of newspapers and agencies like the AP and Reuters. I wrote a few pieces like this over the past year. The Mint review, my retirement finance piece, and last but not least, my piece on quitting the game of Warcraft.

These are the types of pieces that I’d like to continue to write, but I don’t think these can be produced once a week with my current schedule. Work, school, life, you know all that, I’ve mentioned it before in previous posts as well. But I am joining Project 52, a personal challenge to myself, that others have asked of themselves as well. I want to write more. I enjoy writing.

So that’s it for now. Let’s see what 2010 brings for Perfect Mike Dot Com. Until then, You can keep up with my Google Reader links which is probably what I update most often these days, followed by my Twitter.