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It's been a pretty great week. I've been off of work, a little bittersweet since no work means less income, but I'm so glad that I've been off. I got home a week ago Thursday and Luke was not doing all that well and was extremely swollen. Like worse than Will Smith's character in Hitch when he had the allergic reaction. But they finally figured out a combination of things to get rid of some of his swelling. Between a week ago Thursday and this past Thursday he's lost about 1.4 kg. That's about 3 lbs of fluid. Luckily Luke has done well since I've been home. He's still got a long ways to go before we'll even be discussing a discharge date but he's slowly making progress.
Unfortunately I made no purchases for my portfolio this past week but I do have some open limit orders right now on some excellent companies. One company that I'm pretty excited about it Ross Stores, Inc. but I'm not 100% sure how the upcoming stock split will work. Ross Stores' stock split had an "ex-dividend" date of 4/22/15 but the split won't take effect until 6/11/15. I've honestly never paid attention to stock splits before and whether they were announced as stock dividends or not. So if anyone has a better idea of how the stock split will work I'd appreciate it very much. I'm not ready to buy shares yet because the valuation isn't where I feel comfortable purchasing shares but I'm definitely not going to buy shares if it means I don't get to participate in the 2:1 split.
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- Weekly Roundup - July 18, 2015
I'm back home now and now that means it's back to the grind with our son, Luke. They had him medically paralyzed for about a week to let his body relax and build up some strength and lifted that on Thursday. The unfortunate side effect of...
- Weekly Roundup - June 14, 2015
As per usual we've had a few steady days with Luke and then a few rocky days. Hopefully the down days will start to be less frequent as we give him better nutrition but his body is so sensitive to fluid balance that small changes for most babies...
- Weekly Roundup - April 11, 2015
Lots of interesting news in the work side of my life this past week. The really great news is that I finally can have some resemblance of work/life balance. I have a 20/10 schedule now, so I work 20 days then I'm off for 10. This is the first...
- Weekly Roundup - April 4, 2015
Well I'm sure you noticed that I didn't get a lot of writing done this week. That wasn't for a lack of "want to" but just a matter of lack of time. Monday at the hospital with Luke, Tuesday I headed back to work, Wednesday and...
- Weekly Roundup - August 2, 2014
Well this past week was just grinding away in the blistering heat down here in south Texas. Luckily I don't actually work outside but man it was extremely hot. We should be able to finish this well up sometime this weekend and I can't wait...
Money and Finance
Weekly Roundup - April 25, 2015
It's been a pretty great week. I've been off of work, a little bittersweet since no work means less income, but I'm so glad that I've been off. I got home a week ago Thursday and Luke was not doing all that well and was extremely swollen. Like worse than Will Smith's character in Hitch when he had the allergic reaction. But they finally figured out a combination of things to get rid of some of his swelling. Between a week ago Thursday and this past Thursday he's lost about 1.4 kg. That's about 3 lbs of fluid. Luckily Luke has done well since I've been home. He's still got a long ways to go before we'll even be discussing a discharge date but he's slowly making progress.
Unfortunately I made no purchases for my portfolio this past week but I do have some open limit orders right now on some excellent companies. One company that I'm pretty excited about it Ross Stores, Inc. but I'm not 100% sure how the upcoming stock split will work. Ross Stores' stock split had an "ex-dividend" date of 4/22/15 but the split won't take effect until 6/11/15. I've honestly never paid attention to stock splits before and whether they were announced as stock dividends or not. So if anyone has a better idea of how the stock split will work I'd appreciate it very much. I'm not ready to buy shares yet because the valuation isn't where I feel comfortable purchasing shares but I'm definitely not going to buy shares if it means I don't get to participate in the 2:1 split.
Read more »
- Weekly Roundup - July 18, 2015
I'm back home now and now that means it's back to the grind with our son, Luke. They had him medically paralyzed for about a week to let his body relax and build up some strength and lifted that on Thursday. The unfortunate side effect of...
- Weekly Roundup - June 14, 2015
As per usual we've had a few steady days with Luke and then a few rocky days. Hopefully the down days will start to be less frequent as we give him better nutrition but his body is so sensitive to fluid balance that small changes for most babies...
- Weekly Roundup - April 11, 2015
Lots of interesting news in the work side of my life this past week. The really great news is that I finally can have some resemblance of work/life balance. I have a 20/10 schedule now, so I work 20 days then I'm off for 10. This is the first...
- Weekly Roundup - April 4, 2015
Well I'm sure you noticed that I didn't get a lot of writing done this week. That wasn't for a lack of "want to" but just a matter of lack of time. Monday at the hospital with Luke, Tuesday I headed back to work, Wednesday and...
- Weekly Roundup - August 2, 2014
Well this past week was just grinding away in the blistering heat down here in south Texas. Luckily I don't actually work outside but man it was extremely hot. We should be able to finish this well up sometime this weekend and I can't wait...