I’ve fallen off this wagon so I’ll backfill stuff I’ve read and watched but I also have some big news I’ll share later which will also force me to post updates for the next few weeks.
I’ve fallen off this wagon so I’ll backfill stuff I’ve read and watched but I also have some big news I’ll share later which will also force me to post updates for the next few weeks.
I should really write more in this blog. In due time I suppose. I’ve also been quite busy the past few weeks.
I was working on some A/B Testing between Amazon and eBay for selling used books but the results were inconclusive (meaning that my testing failed because I sold no books during my time.) What I can say based on my experience is that for a regular seller eBay is much cheaper and therefore take less of a percentage of your profits.
Also, for all those spam bots out there, I was tired of getting all the notifications about your comments posting to my blog so I had to enable registration. So, if you are a real person and wish to post comments I’m fine with that, but because I get spammed like crazy with comments I force you to register and log in now.
I somewhat expected to have long spans where I didn’t write in this but months seems a bit long. Winter has been rather lacking from what I expect from a typical winter but I’m not sure if I’m happy or upset about it. On the one hand I don’t have to walk to the train in the snow and weather and it hasn’t been cold to the extreme (note: it has been cold) but on the other hand it isn’t very much like winter these days. It’s the first part of February and I think Chicago has received only a few measurable snow falls this season. I do look forward to the snow each winter and I think the worse the winter is the more apt I am to be excited for spring and summer. I’m looking forward to playing outside this spring and summer but I have to ask myself if I am looking forward to it as much as if we had a bunch of snow this winter. As mild as it has been I can’t imagine more winter weather this year. It’s been in the 50s the past week or so which is highly unusual.
Anyway this update is short to say that I am still around and I’ll hopefully get back into the writing mood from time to time. I am also going to start reading my next book, Jim Cramer’s Real Money: Sane Investing in an Insane World.
Why am I reading this? I’ve read this book before but I want to get a refresher in his books because my 401k starts at work soon so I want to be prepared to make the appropriate decisions. The stock market is fascinating to me. I’ve played around with it a little bit and I’ve had some success in it. I just don’t devote enough time or money to make it really worth my while.