Life of an Investor

Life of an Investor Archives: March 2010

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31 March 2010

Improving Employee Performance

So, I’m considering opening myself up to my company a little bit regarding some of the de-motivational factors that are present within my office.  I’d like your opinion.  When we received our annual reviews this year, the CEO added a new objective to each employee’s list for the coming year.
A significant threat to any successful [...]

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18 March 2010

Square Foot Gardening – My Experience So Far

Sorry it’s been so long since I’ve updated you on my life.  I’m sure you were worried.  I have actually been thinking quite a bit about investing recently (including researching some of the methods utilized in day trading), but right now I’m spending more time becoming one with nature.  OK, not exactly, but I have [...]

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11 March 2010

Bank of America Eliminating Debit Card Overdrafts

I previously blogged about a situation which I am not proud of in which I racked up some overdraft fees from Bank of America due to a lack of planning.  Then a few months ago, I told you about the fact that BOA was limiting their fees to only $140 a day.  Now I have [...]

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8 March 2010

Is Obama Dyeing His Hair Black

It seems that only a couple of months after taking office, Barack Obama’s hair began turning gray.  There were news stories and blog postings exploring whether or not he was dyeing it gray to look more distinguished or if it was the stress or hereditary.   Well it appears to me that he might be [...]

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1 March 2010

What would be your last supper?

Take a look at this archive of last meals requested by prisoners on death row in Texas?
http://web.archive.org/web/20031202214318/www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/finalmeals.htm
Although they no longer publish this list, Archive.org has a copy from several years ago.
I’ll admit up front that this post has nothing to do with investing or finance, although I did see an interesting discussion regarding state’s rules [...]

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