Tax Season...

A long time ago, I blogged about investing.

The blog post was called Investing 101 or something along that line.

The blog post was silly, as usual.

Tonight's blog post is somewhat like... all ... of my other posts.

It's one hour past midnight and I woke up a little while ago with strange thoughts.

Yesterday, I finally submitted my personal tax return and reviewed some of my financial activities for 2023.

2023 was a complicated year for me; a lot happened. Anyhow, in 2023, I continued to use two places to trade.  Both places were self-direct.  I had to call one place a few times last year to DRIP for me because I was unable to set that up by myself and the procedure I knew was call in to set it up.  My instructions were not followed at first, the place even UNDRIP a stock I had been dripping for years.  I was surprised and shocked.  As soon as I discovered that my instruction was not followed, at least a quarter later, I called to find out what happened and attempted to fix it.  Took a few calls to execute what I want and I adjusted my investment strategy as a result.  Sigh, needless to say, the automation, ie. DRIP, is not going as well as I hope due to the hick up.  I hope I remember correctly where I left off.

The second place I trade in, does not charge any transaction fee, so I buy stock one share at a time some time.  I didn't look at all of my activities at that place for the year 2023 while completing my tax return because I didn't have to do that for taxes; however, I have to do that for myself because I am scared that someone swapped my portfolio.  My thought is probably not true but I didn't see any one share purchasing activity for 2023 so I have to see when was the last time I bought stock one share at a time.  You see, it's no longer my first year trading at the second place.

Life really do get more complicated as each year pass by.

Cheers to another prosperous year and many more to come ;)

Samsung or Google

I don't really like Samsung products.  They are ok and affordable but I don't like their routine and regular scheduled maintenance.  My combat against their regular update is to shut off my device at every scheduled maintenance time.  I hope they understood my action that I intentionally turned off my device so they cannot remotely update it.

From time to time, I forget to turn my device off that's when the software get updated :(

There are setting on my tablet that was not set by me and bothers me.  I don't bother fixing those nuisance because I tend to get more frustrated when I try to adjust the setting on my own.  They ask too many questions.

People know their preference, I prefer a blank page.

My favourite smart device was a first generation Google product.

I have always been a low-end smart devices user.

I know the market well enough for myself.

I miss ya

It's been a while since I last blogged on a Dreamy Thursday.  It's 4:12 a.m. right now and I had a good 5 hours of sleep.  Too bad it's shy of 6 hours :(  maybe I am dreaming right now...

I guess I am at an age where I take naps in afternoons.

I am not sure if I ever blogged about I.T support before but that's today's topic.  I am not sure what it is still but I think my preference is to not use them.  I know I know, it is impossible to not use them and they work in background.

I say the above because their preference might not be my preference and I am not good at set up or alteration.  It is a challenge for me to read the entire questionnaire, check or unchecked all the boxes to set up my equipment that works for me and know my preference.  

Most time, I just give up. I miss my old laptop, the one that carried me through my student years.  It suffered water and fire damage and is certified dead by me for sure.  I love you!  Miss ya lots and lots.  You held all the music, videos, photos, games, and work that was important to me.

I am not a back up and restore girl.  I am not a cloud girl.  I am a crash, burn and cry me a river girl.

Since losing you, I never found a replacement for you.