The Ol' Fat Guy Blathers On

Topics For Today.... Aren't Stocks Wonderful     I've been involved in stocks, in investing, in the stock market~ one way or the other ~since I was about 12 or 14 years old, when I started following what my Dad was doing.  He helped a lot, pointing me in the right direction for an informal education.  In those pre-internet days, print media was the only resource I had.... Forbes Magazine, Finance, The Wall Street Journal newspaper; things like that.  With my Mom working in a subscription agency we had access to practically any magazine or paper, worldwide .     After my last divorce and about six months after my return to the manufacturing sector~ working for minimum pay plus piecework rate ~I decided being an 'over-the-road' truck driver would solve a lot of immediate problems.  Driving truck would~ for the most part ~keep me away from people and feed my nomadic nature.  In the late '90s I finally got a laptop comp...

Why Won't It Do....?     We are both avid readers.  To that end I bought my wife a Kindle Paperwhite for one of her recent birthdays.  With 'turnabout' being fair play, she bought me one for my last birthday.  She doesn't have the problems I have, primarily due to having a better memory than I have.     Today I have twenty-one books on my Kindle all of which, I've read.. I THINK!  All the books are in two genres, either "hobby/sustainable farming" or military-related novels like those WEB Griffin writes.I recently bought another book... which today, I can't find.  Did I actually buy it?  What was the title?  Dam'd if I know! I kinda think it was a "hobby farming" one.     When we bought the first Kindle , I asked the ' BestBuy ' guy how we deleted the books we'd read.  He said "Not necessary, with the size of the memory you'll never run out of space."  Well, " running out of space " ain't ...