Accounts register update Last Thursday after market close I noticed my shares of IDV had gained more than 10% over the 2016-12-30 purchase price of $29.6079, reaching prices not seen since 2015-06. So today I dumped them at $33.384, i.e. a gain of $3.7761 per share, or 12.75%. Commission-free, too. Not bad for a 6-month ride. Of course I won't get the end-of-quarter dividend, but in the past couple years Q2 dividends were only ~55 cents per share, and annual return only ~4.10%. So I'm still way ahead by... (...more)

Whistling in the Wind blog: "Why Taxation is not Theft" Accounts registers up-to-date Zeroing my webmail inbox is going to require me to either create a LinkedIn account or get comfortable with ignoring and deleting LinkedIn connection invites. Another big source of email influx is political messaging. I do want to keep abreast of what's happening with ActBlue, OurRevolution, The Sanders Institute, #Resist and all, but they all need to figure out how to cooperate and organize among themselves to e... (...more)

Many recovery meeting groups follow a monthly cycle of formats: Speaker, Chair's Choice, Step Study, Annniversary. Each time I go to a meeting and hear the reminder that anniversaries are this part of the community traditions, I think "gee I should decide when to count my anniversary from". I ordered the Kindle ed of the "Big Red Book" 2016-08-24 and sampled a number of different meetings (GA FLL, NA Pompano, ACoA Boca FUMC East and Glades Presby) in Aug-Sept., so I'm good with rolling that anniversary up ... (...more)

Haircut Fuel-up: 301.4 mi / 10.5 gal = 28.7 mpg In 1976, Margaret Thatcher stated in an interview "The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." That's a very pop libertarian-conservative narrative. Unfortunately it rests on a few wholly false premises. First, that "money" has any meaning outside the social context. Second, that entitlement to a stake in society, benefitting from institutions like law, police, infrastructure, environmental protection, courts, etc.,... (...more)

first coffee Taps to Riches: earn 10K Bizbots and reset second coffee + 200mg pay auto ins (6mo in one shot, yay for budget jars) and phone accts register update finished Haugk: "A Time to Grieve" bk 1 transcribed 2 biz cards to contact list Checked health insurance ID cards vs. online and scrapped the incorrect one Entered Publix survey drawing for gift cards Reviewed benefits claim form to mail tomorrow - can be downloaded in PDF to rework if needed After not finding the correct watch batter... (...more)