The My Day In Pictures articles are to keep friends and family updated on what is going on with my life. It was instituted at the request and for the benefit of one of my favorite people in the world, one of my aunts who is a retired telephone operator and lives a few hours away from me.
The house sitters have moved into my townhouse for the next month, the security system has been upgraded, and we are off to New York. It is 9:54 a.m., Central Standard Time, and I am flying somewhere over the Midwest on an Express Jet bound for Newark, where a driver will pick me up and…
Tonight, we had dinner at Aaron’s parents house to celebrate some birthdays in his family. His dad made fried catfish and his mom an angel food cake, both of which were good.
One of my sisters went to a Comic-Con event and brought me a Legend of Zelda pixel art magnet. I love it.
The experience of Johnson & Johnson owners over the past decade is informative in understanding the role valuation and growth plays in determining total return outcome. Let’s take a closer look.
Last night, I realized that I needed to take a trip to the local Charles Schwab & Company branch office to turn over a framed Berkshire Hathaway Class B certificate that we had on the office wall for a few years as decor because the stock split 50-1 and the transfer agent had been continually…
We had hoped to have time to swing by Washington, D.C. on our upcoming business trip to New York but it looks like that won’t happen because we need to spend more time in New York and New Jersey. My mom wanted to try this place called Georgetown Cupcake in Washington and now that we…
Most days, I spend my time working and generating money to grow my investments. Today was one of those days that we cashed in some chips for enjoyment and spent. I didn’t plan on it but shortly after lunch, Aaron told me the custom shirts he designed at Brooks Brothers on January 13th were ready for…
This upcoming week is going to be busy. I have to finalize the accounting approval for last year before sending off all of the records to the firm that prepares our taxes, I have to drop off the finalized terms contract for the attorneys that are helping me explore launching my own financial vehicle, I have to write two or three new pieces of About.com content, I need to continue studying CSS because I love it, and I have to work on a lot of other stuff that you probably don’t really want to hear about – I’d like to get through the technology sector annual reports, finalize the list of stocks I plan to buy through my pension plan once the upcoming contribution is finalized, etc.
Another addition to the Scrooge McDuck collection, reading a tobacco annual report, and picking up more books were on the list of things I enjoyed today.
There is so much going on I don’t know if I’ll have much time to read, but the sunset and great lighting, combined with reading about R.J. Reynolds today, made me grab a copy of Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco, the book famous for chronicling the leveraged buyout that changed the…
