As you know one of my biggest dreams is to have my own business. I have written about that here, just check under the Business category for all related posts. Just because I have not posted anything about it recently does not mean that I have given up, not at all. I still have my plans for world domination, I just don’t have a set date. What I am going to do from now on is to keep a journal of every step I take, from beginning to end and sometime down the line post it for everybody to see. Hopefully that will help somebody who is in the same situation that I am in and that in itself is worth all the effort. Anyway, that is all I am saying about it for now.

You might have noticed that there are no more ads in my posts anymore. I stopped using them about two months ago if I remember correctly. There are a couple of reasons why but the main one is because I was too lazy to go through the whole thing every time I posted. I had to log in to my account, find an ad and then paste it to my blog and honestly it became too time consuming for me. The second reason is that they were not making me any money, I did make about $8+ dollars with them but that is it and why keep at it if they are not working, right?. Will you ever see ads again on my blogs again?, the answer is yes but probably not in the posts themselves. I think the sidebars are a good place for them and when that happens I am sure you’ll notice and I will let you know as well just in case you miss them.

If you are a regular reader of this blog then you know that I have been paying a lot of attention to the market and my investments. However, I have not forgotten my dream of one day having my own business. So many ideas and so little effort on my part when it comes to that that it can be depressing at times. I have no one an I mean no one to blame but myself. Maybe if I keep the blame coming long enough I will do something about it. 

I have been putting ads in my new blogs from the beginning as you know. I like how ads look and that is one of the reasons I decided to go ahead and use them but the main reason has to be to make some money of course.

After five months I finally got my first check in the mail on June the 6th. The amount was $3.15 but wait there is more. On July the 7th I received my second check and the amount for that check was $2.75 and hopefully I am going to get another one today but I am not holding my breath to be honest.

Instead of cashing my first check I am going to frame it for one simple reason, it is the first and as you know “firsts” don’t happen everyday. The second one on the other hand, I am cashing that sucker today. This is the first time that my blogs have made me money when it usually is the other way around. Is that the mailman I see outside?………………………………gotta go.

Exxon Mobil reported the largest ever quarterly profit in U.S. corporate history, the company had a profit of $11.7 billion dollars and that is a lot of money. I am sure all their shareholders must be quite happy. I wish I was one of them but sadly I am not but maybe someday I will be. 

On a related note, the price of a barrel of oil is close to $123 dollars. The price of oil is considerably down from the record of $147.27 on July 11 of this very year. Some say that the price went through the roof because of speculators, I couldn’t tell you if that is true or false because I honestly don’t know.

A stock that I have been keeping my eye on and is on my watchlist is First Solar Inc (FSLR). I remember seeing this stock at about $250 not too long ago. From the graph below you can see that it has been on quite a ride since April. As I write this post the price is $285.03 which is too expensive for me but I do have a good feeling about this one.