In late August 2025 I bought 60 shares of IBIT at a price of $62.46 per share. IBIT is the Ishares Bitcoin ETF. About two weeks later, I sold all my shares at $66.86 per share. This gave me a profit of $263.53. My plan was to only hold for
Continue readingXbox Controllers Sold in 2025
So far in 2025, I have repaired and sold 32 Xbox controllers. My goal (was) to sell 50 controllers, but it has been extremely difficult to find controllers that are priced low enough to make a profit. My average profit this year is $8.78 per controller. That doesn’t include the
Continue readingCredit Card Budget in 2025
Although we still have two months left in 2025, I decided to compare my monthly credit card bill to last year’s. In 2024, I had three months where I had over $500 on my cc bill. One of those months was when I had to buy a new refrigerator. Since
Continue readingGovernment Shutdown Thoughts
It seems like every six months we have the threat of a government shutdown. This time I think it will happen on schedule and may possibly be one of the longest in history. For the simple reason that Trump hates Dems and is going to blame the whole thing on
Continue readingMy Downstream Data Cap
The Xfinity Internet plan I have limits downstream data to 150mbps and caps the monthly data at 1.2TB. Upload speed is 35mbps. They apply additional charges if you exceed the monthly data limit, so I utilize a setting on my Linksys EA6350 router to limit my bandwidth. The setting is
Continue readingMachineshoplist.com
Back in 2012 I created a website for listing machine shops based in the US. One goal was to help machine shop owners by providing a free searchable database for their listings. The other goal was to see if I could create the code for a custom online database. Back
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