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After much deliberation, and seeing just how fast my brokerage accounts were outpacing my money markets, I moved most of my inheritance money into the brokerage account. I've now got about 10% in cash instead of the 50% I had before. It's riskier, but I made as much in 6 weeks in stocks and mutual funds than my money market would make in a whole year!
I sold off most of my porn stocks on Thursday, except for Penthouse International (PTHL.PK), which I was still in the negative. Unfortunately, my 45 day free trading period expired Friday. I thought I was going to be stuck with the stock, but luckily, it shot up to $0.0065 a share Monday, so I was able to unload all 16,000 shares, pay the commission and still make a (small) profit! Whoot!
While driving into Omaha on Saturday, Animale's car started overheating really bad. We pulled off the road and checked under the hood. Coolant had started spraying from under the radiator cap and I could see steam coming from a couple spots on the front. Fortunately we were only a mile or so from a Chevy dealer, so we were able to limp in. We had to stop twice more on the way because the engine kept heating up so quickly. Apparently the radiator was both clogged and leaking. That's another $500 expense we weren't ready for. I had been worried about living out in the boonies and the fact that taxi service would probably be insanely expensive, but I learned there was a local cab company and it only cost about $30 (with tip) to go 15 miles. I paid $25 to go 3 miles in San Diego!
We saw Spiderman 3 on Saturday. Ho-hum. I think Stan Lee's mind is no longer in mint condition.
Huge storms on Saturday, but for some strange reason, they all passed right to the east and west of us. There were tornadoes reported in Glenwood, IA, a few miles away on the other side of the Missouri. There were also a lot of flooded rivers, including the Platte. Here, we got a lot of rain, and one VERY close lightning strike (when the flash and the sound occur at the same time, it's hit less than 100 yards away), but no apparent damage.
Our ISP wasn't so lucky. Lightning hit the tower housing their wireless transmitter, knocking them offline for a good while. Service wasn't restored fully until this afternoon.
I've been running a fever since at least Thursday. It got up to 100.8ºF (38.2ºC) Sunday night. I'm not sure what the problem is, I don't really feel ill, other than a headache and a bit of fatigue. I was coughing a bit last night, but I haven't today. I've increased my intake of Vitamin C and garlic and started taking myrrh (nasty tasting stuff!), hoping to beat down whatever infection I might have. I still need to rebuild my herbal medicine chest, just for these kind of situations.
I sold off most of my porn stocks on Thursday, except for Penthouse International (PTHL.PK), which I was still in the negative. Unfortunately, my 45 day free trading period expired Friday. I thought I was going to be stuck with the stock, but luckily, it shot up to $0.0065 a share Monday, so I was able to unload all 16,000 shares, pay the commission and still make a (small) profit! Whoot!
While driving into Omaha on Saturday, Animale's car started overheating really bad. We pulled off the road and checked under the hood. Coolant had started spraying from under the radiator cap and I could see steam coming from a couple spots on the front. Fortunately we were only a mile or so from a Chevy dealer, so we were able to limp in. We had to stop twice more on the way because the engine kept heating up so quickly. Apparently the radiator was both clogged and leaking. That's another $500 expense we weren't ready for. I had been worried about living out in the boonies and the fact that taxi service would probably be insanely expensive, but I learned there was a local cab company and it only cost about $30 (with tip) to go 15 miles. I paid $25 to go 3 miles in San Diego!
We saw Spiderman 3 on Saturday. Ho-hum. I think Stan Lee's mind is no longer in mint condition.
Huge storms on Saturday, but for some strange reason, they all passed right to the east and west of us. There were tornadoes reported in Glenwood, IA, a few miles away on the other side of the Missouri. There were also a lot of flooded rivers, including the Platte. Here, we got a lot of rain, and one VERY close lightning strike (when the flash and the sound occur at the same time, it's hit less than 100 yards away), but no apparent damage.
Our ISP wasn't so lucky. Lightning hit the tower housing their wireless transmitter, knocking them offline for a good while. Service wasn't restored fully until this afternoon.
I've been running a fever since at least Thursday. It got up to 100.8ºF (38.2ºC) Sunday night. I'm not sure what the problem is, I don't really feel ill, other than a headache and a bit of fatigue. I was coughing a bit last night, but I haven't today. I've increased my intake of Vitamin C and garlic and started taking myrrh (nasty tasting stuff!), hoping to beat down whatever infection I might have. I still need to rebuild my herbal medicine chest, just for these kind of situations.
