My blog hit 1,000 visitors since installing the Globe Tracker!

I'd like to take a moment to thank you. Today my blog hit its 1,000th visitor. That's not pageviews, but individuals who take time out of their day to read about whatever I write.

I started this blog for two reasons:

• To track my progress, so I can read it years from now to see how I started out investing.
• Just a place to put some thoughts, what ever is on my mind. Sometimes I'm just staring out of the window, thinking, I really want to make a habit to put those thoughts on paper. Again, so I can read them years from now, to see what I was thinking. 

When people find it interesting to read what I have to say, that's just an extra! I know that there are some blogs out there from other investors who have hundreds of thousands of views, but for me, 1,000 people is still a lot! It's awesome that people from America, Europe, Asia, Australia and all corners from the world read this. Fifteen years ago that would be unthinkable. All hail technology!

Thanks for reading.

The first $100,000 is the hardest

I'd like to talk about how hard it is to accumulate 100,000 from a standstill, a great Charlie Munger quote:

March 2013 Dividend Income Update

Anther month gone, another dividend update. Here is the dividend update for March 2013:

Latest buy: MSFT

Work. Save. Buy quality stocks that throw off ever growing amounts of cash. When I'm buying an investment, I'm buying additional household income. Then wash, rinse, repeat. The cycle becomes self reinforcing. Today, I bought some more additional household income.

I'm such a cliche right now

If you would walk into the door right now, you would burst into laughter at the absurdity. Here its 3 a.m. I'm sitting at my desk, reviewing the annual report of the Royal Canadian Bank  and Royal Dutch Shell, thinking about investments, about compounding my wealth, going over my own personal income numbers, drinking single malt scotch, all this while listening to Johan Sebastian Bach at full blast.

Latest buy: WFC

New DOW record! Looking at the market, I see some overvalued stocks, especially in the consumer staples. Pepsi Co. has a 20 P/E, Kellogg's has a 22+ P/E. Further more, MLP's and REITs are being bid up by yield-hungry investors.

And then, there are some stocks nobody wants to touch and everyone seems to be afraid of, the financials... *Insert dramatic sound*

February 2013 Dividend Income Update

Another month behind us, it's amazing how fast time flies by! Here is the dividend update for February 2013: