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Personal finance blogs that I find interesting

1. The Digeratli Life
2. My Dollar Plan
3. My Money Blog

A short note about growing old

As you grow older, you

1. realize that you are at the age at which you were 12 and exclaimed, when I grow up, I will XXX. Well you haven't done XXX yet.

2. realize that you don't recover from being sick as quickly as you used to. That bites.

3. begin to think birthdays aren't all that great.

4. really hate being sick (see point 2). I am sick and I hate it. Now get off my lawn.

5. forget stuff. So when I grow up and reach 40, make sure that I have already read Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letters. All of them. And try not to fall asleep while reading them halfway old man. [http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/letters.html]

6. think it's really cool that you are old, because you can now say things like, "you young people", and when you do something wrong, you just go, "meh, what do I know? I just a grumpy old man."

7. worry about becoming a grumpy old man.

8. think it's best to not count based on absolute age and we should be counting based on relative age. So from now now, my age is TBD (to be determined), but when I die, I would have been (current_age / age_of_death * 100%) old.

Money tools used

Just Thrive - Online money management. Pro: Nags you a lot. Con: Nags you a lot.

Mint - Online money management. Pro: Has alerts when bills are due, checks are cleared, etc. Con: Not great for investment monitoring.

Yodlee - Online money management. Don't know. Have not tried it yet.

Credit Karma - Free credit report supported by ads. Pro: Free credit report score! Con: Score only comes from Transunion and site is ad-supported.

Cake Financial - Investment portfolio management. Pro: Great analysis tools. Con: Only investment portfolio management (if that's a con).

Overheard today

Bad Joke of the Day

Question: How do Microsoft employees greet each other lately?
Answer: How have you bing?

Awesome Google Finance Discussion

Discussions for OceanFreight Inc. (OCNF)

muzz...@gmail.com

In just about a week I lost half of my bankroll. Between commissions
and a nasty hit from OCNF stock, and now with CVM on a downturn I
need a big turn-around, otherwise I'm toast. I've got to be very very
careful from now on. I still feel OCNF should pay me the .77 dividend
after all it's posted on the GOOGLE finance chart, that would help out
a lot..

srt4r...@gmail.com

[some advice]

muzz...@gmail.com

I know but CARRIER said I should sell my 100 shares of OCNF and buy
CVM, and I would make a lot of money. I'm not listening to him
anymore.

ac36...@yahoo.com

[some advice]

carrier...@gmail.com

Muzzie, OCNF will not pay a dividend until 2015 they relased that
document a while back... If you did your research before you bought
OCNF, you most likley would not have bought it for the dividend
because there is none, and will be none. This stock is now trash! Im
sorry that you think CVM is on a downturn... But the downside risk is
to .25 and the upside risk is to $1 . Now if you want a greater risk
to reward ratio than that, may I suggest these stocks NM CPE WRES CEP
UYG FBR and if you really want to get risky BCON PAE.

muzz...@gmail.com

To arse36...@yahoo.com, You also should have listened to CARRIER,
take a look at OCNF pre-market, All you who have been bragging about
the multi K shares you own and making fun of my 100 shares, do the
math and see how much you're going to lose today I'll bet you wish
you only had 100 shares. My advice to you guys is to go on E-BAY and
type in "CRYING TOWELS" in the search box.

bmy1..@aol.com

LOL............ Ask your monny to change your diaper.

I leave tips for waitresses after dinner bigger than your 100
shares.......... Get a job! Save some cash! And then come back to the
stock market with a half way decent bank roll. You're waisting your
time with what your doing.

muzz...@gmail.com
I bet; you're probably a waitress at that diner. OCNF still going down.
I got out at $1.6, you should have listened.

rickharrison
are you seriously whining about losses and you only had 100 shares?

studwilli...@gmail.com
It's not a loss until you sell.

carrier...@gmail.com
It's not nice to make fun of Muzz because of the little bit invested!
Maybe $100 is all he has to invest...

muzz...@gmail.com
CARRIER, I checked out all of the stocks you listed, every one of them
are DOWN, don't you know any good ones, I'm
looking for stock that goes UP. I want to make money not lose money. I
got hammered with OCNF, I don't want that to happen again, It would
wipe me right out..

muzz...@gmail.com
That's correct; about $100 left but I started with $211and look how
fast I went through that. That's why I keep telling you guys I need a
good stock so I can make myself whole again.

greg.o.roo...@gmail.com
muzz, you make it interesting to be involved in this company's stock.
it makes things way more interesting.

everyone else, you keep it up too, it is entertaining.

bmy1...@aol.com
idiots.

Ah yes. Internet forum humor.

My Top Two Purchases from Amazon.com

I did not think much of white noise as a sleep aid. But since I am a sleep deprived parent willing to try anything. I figured I would just buy some white noise MP3s with the cutest album cover - Yes, that was how I decided. I was that skeptical about the effectiveness of white noise that I figured I would get more utility out of deciding which album art was cuter.

Combined with a cheap MP3 player, and spare computer speakers. Bam. My own white noise machine that also plays classical/jazz music on the side for the cheap.

It's not a panacea for cranky baby, but it sure helps me go to sleep. That's why this is my top two purchases. I now get solid 6 hours of sleep. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.