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Super Bowl Ads 2021
I feel sorry for the people who had to produce ads for the 2021 Super Bowl, and yet, maybe not too sorry. We’re in a pandemic that’s mutating. The US is so not-united that one of the ads was wise … Continue reading
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Tagged advertisers, advertising, electric cars, Great Recession, Microvision, MVIS, pandemic, personal finance, Second Great Depression, stocks, Super Bowl
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Gamestop And Moving Smaller Stocks
Oh dear. Some financial institutions are upset that some individual stockholders figured out how to play the market taking advantage of the institutions’ techniques. The big players are upset that others have begun beating them at their old game. Simply … Continue reading
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Tagged collusion, Dream. Invest. Live., Gamestop, GME, invest, investing, LCTX, MVIS, personal finance, shorts, stocks
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Retiring Anxieties – Plumbing, Health, Government
Use By Dates? Ha! In the midst of tackling yet another anxiety, I found a bottle of (probably haz-mat) stuff that was so old the bottle didn’t have a Use By Date, or a bar code, or (gasp!) even a … Continue reading
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Tagged anxieties, government, health, plumbing, politics, retiring anxieties, stress
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Off Grid Living In Town
Power! People were offering me power! And I turned them down, with thanks. One way to experience off-the-grid living is to move to a rural area where storms are common. Up comes the wind, down come the trees, out goes … Continue reading
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Tagged community, emergency preparedness, frugality, off the grid, off-grid, power, Puget Sound Energy, solar power, technology, Whidbey Island
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Go West Or Somewhere
Things are changing. Ha! That and other gross understatements are provided at no charge (so far). “Go west, young man.” was advice delivered to people (men) struggling to escape terrible conditions on the east coast of the US. Gold rushes … Continue reading
Popular Posts in 2020
Oh, what a year it was. Some of the topics I wrote about where: Politics, a pandemic, wildfires, storms, floods, changes in a social structure (including social media), health care, health insurance, Social Security, tea, writing, science fiction, real estate, … Continue reading
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Tagged anxieties, community, floods, food, frugality, Gig Economy, health care, health insurance, kindness, pandemic, politics, real estate, recovery, rural life, science fiction, shop local, Social Security, storms, sustainability, taxes, tea, wildfires, work from home, writing
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Semi Annual Exercise EOY 2020
While the wide world and my private world were in turmoil, something unexpectedly positive happened in 2020. In the last six months since my mid-year semi-annual portfolio review and exercise my portfolio rose by a factor of 2.7. Since the … Continue reading
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Tagged GERN, Geron, investing, Investor Village, LCTX, Lineage Cell Therapeutics, Microvision, Motley Fool, MVIS, NeoPhotonics, NPTN, personal finance, reddit, Silicon Investor, stocks
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Cratchit Is Not Scrooge
Cratchit is not Scrooge. That seems like a silly thing to write. The two main characters in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol are known well. Scrooge, of course, is the better known. He is the wealthy character that is dragged … Continue reading
Lessons With LTBH Via MVIS
A stock goes up over fifty percent in a week, and people get curious about it. Why? What happened? Should I do anything about it? Well, I’m not a certified or professional financial advisor so I won’t answer what you … Continue reading
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Tagged dilution, Dream. Invest. Live., early retirement, frugal, investing, LTBH, Microvision, MVIS, personal finance, Retirement, speculating, stocks
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