As promised, I’ve donated all of the revenues I earned last year from this site though Google Adsense. Thanks to the visitors in 2007, I earned $103.99 from the Google ads on this site.

Tonight, I donated that $103.99 to March of Dimes.

Thanks to all the visitors and supporters of this site.  I know seeing the ads sometimes gets annoying, but I hope knowing that I do put the income from the ads to good use makes them more bearable!  I post to this blog more for myself and keeping my trading thoughts straight, so it wouldn’t be right if I kept any of the money.

However I’m glad some of you have found these posts even remotely helpful to your trading/investing.  Yes, I’d admit half the time I’m not sure if I’m saying the right thing.  Then again, if you’ve got a 50% success rate in this business you’re considered pretty good. As we push on through this recession and this bear market, I hope all this will be a great learning opportunity to become that better of an investor/trader when the bull market does return. I know I’ve learned more in the first quarter than ever.

I will be launching a site I’m making for fun to gather online resources for doing homework on our stocks.  I have registered the name SuckingLess.com for this purpose, so keep an eye out for when I put that up and I hope you’ll all contribute something and help everyone do homework better and faster!  Why call it SuckingLess.com?  Like I said, a 50% success rate in this business is considered pretty good, but that still means half the time we suck!  So, the plan is, if we can help each other do better homework, and suck less, we can make more bling.  Until then, bling bling, and take a look at March of Dimes and make a donation if you can. If you already have a favorite charity, please write in and let me know where to donate my 2008 website earnings!

March of Dimes Mission Statement

“Our mission is to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth, and infant mortality. We carry out this mission through research, community services, education and advocacy to save babies’ lives. March of Dimes researchers, volunteers, educators, outreach workers and advocates work together to give all babies a fighting chance against the threats to their health: prematurity, birth defects, low birthweight.”

Ain’t nothing to it! I lost my voice screaming anyway, but it didn’t measure up to little Kaya’s “Julia!” “Julia!” Official and candid photos will be up on Julia’s site soon! It was a great trip before she won, now it’s just undescribeably fantastic. Thanks Jules for letting us be such a big part of this whole weekend. Your whole family and everyone we met in Utah is just amazing.

Utah ’till Monday!  Going to the Miss Utah USA pageant to fan Julia’s flame! (and fame!)…hang out with Julia, her family, and Diana!  Best weekend ever?  It will be!  The most anticipated event of the year is here.  And no, it’s not because that rhymed.

Last month, Julia and I began working on a website for her: JuliaBachison.com. Among other things, you’ll find a portfolio of things Julia’s done, from pictures of her Miss Utah tour to TV she’s doing right now. You’ll also find updates on her various projects as well as get to know her on her blog. JuliaBachison.com. Please go, get to know Julia, and leave some comments to show some love! This is also my first big website project (that I completed!) so we’ll definitely look forward to your comments on improvements and stuff we can add. I hope you’ll bookmark Julia’s site and show as much interest for her site as you have for mine.

**I know this is another off-topic post, but this is an important post for me, Jeffrey…and I hope (at least some of you) would like to know more about me than just the stocks I write about. If you only care about my stock thoughts, then you should know working on JuliaBachison.com is why I haven’t been writing much here! And yes, Julia is a big part of the motivation and inspiration for my successful trading and analysis this year, so there’s nothing for you to complain about!**