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This has been a crazy week. Getting my mom out of the hospital and back home, followed by getting her healthy again took up most of the time from Saturday until Tuesday. Since then it's been relatively quiet around here until yesterday a little after noon. I was hoping it would be quiet as far as work was concerned but I got a phone call saying to be ready to possibly head out Friday night. No bueno! I was really looking forward to being home through the weekend since I hadn't received a call yet, but that's what I get for thinking that might happen. There's still a chance that I didn't have to leave yesterday, so I'll update y'all sometime this morning.
In other news I did loosen up the purse strings this past week and bought 4 books. Ooops! I never should have walked into Half Price Books or gone to their website. I purchased Buffetology, The Single Best Investment, The Ultimate Dividend Playbook, and Options as a Strategic Investment for an average cost of $8.48 per book. Not bad considering it would have be over $100 if I purchased all of them new through Amazon or Barnes & Noble. I've never read any books on dividend growth investing and was hoping to find these at the Half Price Books that's near my house. Well that never happened so it was time to just go on and order some. I'm looking forward to getting a chance to read through all of them and will share my findings.
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- Weekly Roundup - November 9, 2013
Somehow yet another week has flown by. I had to head back to work but I was just glad I got the weekend off and got to spend it having fun with my wife. Thankfully no other issues with the house to have to take care of. This week was done in a flash,...
- Weekly Roundup - September 21, 2013
This past week has been an absolute whirlwind. My wife and I continued to move things over to the new house and then of course it was time for me to head back to work on Tuesday. I really dislike when I first get back because we drill for a day and...
- Weekly Roundup - August 24, 2013
This past week was very busy for me. It started off with a quick call out on Monday to head back to work. I was hoping to be home at least until Tuesday and maybe until Wednesday, but they got things done at the rig much faster than I expected. I...
- Weekly Roundup - July 14, 2013
Well my first attempt at the roundup for this week went horribly wrong. I had finished and scheduled it for yesterday morning and then wanted to add one more thing to it and changed my mind. Needless to say I didn't save it again and then it got...
- Weekly Roundup - June 9, 2013
Well it was time to head back to work again. This time in sunny southeastern New Mexico. It was a fun 11.5 hour drive from my house in Houston to near Carlsbad but luckily I didn't have to drive it straight through. They paid for a travel day...
Money and Finance
Weekly Roundup - May 11, 2013
This has been a crazy week. Getting my mom out of the hospital and back home, followed by getting her healthy again took up most of the time from Saturday until Tuesday. Since then it's been relatively quiet around here until yesterday a little after noon. I was hoping it would be quiet as far as work was concerned but I got a phone call saying to be ready to possibly head out Friday night. No bueno! I was really looking forward to being home through the weekend since I hadn't received a call yet, but that's what I get for thinking that might happen. There's still a chance that I didn't have to leave yesterday, so I'll update y'all sometime this morning.
In other news I did loosen up the purse strings this past week and bought 4 books. Ooops! I never should have walked into Half Price Books or gone to their website. I purchased Buffetology, The Single Best Investment, The Ultimate Dividend Playbook, and Options as a Strategic Investment for an average cost of $8.48 per book. Not bad considering it would have be over $100 if I purchased all of them new through Amazon or Barnes & Noble. I've never read any books on dividend growth investing and was hoping to find these at the Half Price Books that's near my house. Well that never happened so it was time to just go on and order some. I'm looking forward to getting a chance to read through all of them and will share my findings.
Read more »
- Weekly Roundup - November 9, 2013
Somehow yet another week has flown by. I had to head back to work but I was just glad I got the weekend off and got to spend it having fun with my wife. Thankfully no other issues with the house to have to take care of. This week was done in a flash,...
- Weekly Roundup - September 21, 2013
This past week has been an absolute whirlwind. My wife and I continued to move things over to the new house and then of course it was time for me to head back to work on Tuesday. I really dislike when I first get back because we drill for a day and...
- Weekly Roundup - August 24, 2013
This past week was very busy for me. It started off with a quick call out on Monday to head back to work. I was hoping to be home at least until Tuesday and maybe until Wednesday, but they got things done at the rig much faster than I expected. I...
- Weekly Roundup - July 14, 2013
Well my first attempt at the roundup for this week went horribly wrong. I had finished and scheduled it for yesterday morning and then wanted to add one more thing to it and changed my mind. Needless to say I didn't save it again and then it got...
- Weekly Roundup - June 9, 2013
Well it was time to head back to work again. This time in sunny southeastern New Mexico. It was a fun 11.5 hour drive from my house in Houston to near Carlsbad but luckily I didn't have to drive it straight through. They paid for a travel day...