Bowling night.....
Solitaire: 0
Poker: 0
Friday, November 30, 2007
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
November 27, 2007 Results
Not that much progress today, as it takes a while for the 100 people to enter the 100 people tournaments....LOL
Solitaire: +50
Poker: 0
House imaginary balance: 44,781
Solitaire: +50
Poker: 0
House imaginary balance: 44,781
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
45K Gone
And in further developments, the 45K mark is now gone :-)
That makes 6 marks off the board this month, so a little bit better than normal. I was hoping to get to this point by the end of the month to be able to have a shot of having the balance of the mortgage be below 40K before the end of the year, so going into 2008 we will owe something in the 39K range.
That makes 6 marks off the board this month, so a little bit better than normal. I was hoping to get to this point by the end of the month to be able to have a shot of having the balance of the mortgage be below 40K before the end of the year, so going into 2008 we will owe something in the 39K range.
November 26, 2007 Results
Another good day in the solitaire world. They have switched over to the 100 player tournament, so I've been doing fairly well again.
Solitaire: +200
Poker: -11
Solitaire: +200
Poker: -11
Sunday, November 25, 2007
November 25, 2007 Results
Solitaire: +250
Poker: +57
Did fairly well in the 100K tournament on PokerStars today. Finished 311th. Should have held off and gotten another 19 dollars for my trouble, but oh well. AJ suited ran into AA. Not a good match up. Did catch 2 clubs on the flop, but didn't get the ultimate suck out....oh well...
Poker: +57
Did fairly well in the 100K tournament on PokerStars today. Finished 311th. Should have held off and gotten another 19 dollars for my trouble, but oh well. AJ suited ran into AA. Not a good match up. Did catch 2 clubs on the flop, but didn't get the ultimate suck out....oh well...
November 23, 2007 Results
Solitaire: +200
Poker: 0
Nice to have the 5 dollar / 100 dollar payout game back....
Now where is that Survival????
Poker: 0
Nice to have the 5 dollar / 100 dollar payout game back....
Now where is that Survival????
Friday, November 23, 2007
Another Mortgage Payment
So we got the next Paypal in a lot more quickly than I had expected, so I got to pay another mortgage payment today. Today's payment was 1304.05.
What this does for the numbers:
We have now paid 9639.84 towards the mortgage this month with 9036.36 extra going straight to principal. Kind of funny to think that we have paid off 1/5th of what we owe on the mortgage in one month. I keep on telling Susan that I don't know how much longer this will last and she keeps telling me that it just keeps "happening", doesn't it? LOL I guess she does have a point. For the last 3 months I keep saying there is no way, and every month we keep on paying more than we did in the previous month.
Original Mortgage Payoff: February 2019 - minus 7 months
Official Mortgage Payoff Date: August 2009 - Stayed the same
Dream Mortgage Payoff Date: July 2008 - Stayed the same
Not too bad of a month, not bad at all. All I can say right now is....c'mon Survival Touranment!!!!
What this does for the numbers:
We have now paid 9639.84 towards the mortgage this month with 9036.36 extra going straight to principal. Kind of funny to think that we have paid off 1/5th of what we owe on the mortgage in one month. I keep on telling Susan that I don't know how much longer this will last and she keeps telling me that it just keeps "happening", doesn't it? LOL I guess she does have a point. For the last 3 months I keep saying there is no way, and every month we keep on paying more than we did in the previous month.
Original Mortgage Payoff: February 2019 - minus 7 months
Official Mortgage Payoff Date: August 2009 - Stayed the same
Dream Mortgage Payoff Date: July 2008 - Stayed the same
Not too bad of a month, not bad at all. All I can say right now is....c'mon Survival Touranment!!!!
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Mortgage payment
Got to pay another 1377.07 to the mortgage yesterday. That brings the extra paid this month to 7732.32. Not too bad, still wish I would have won that Survival Tournament!!!!
Original Mortgage Payoff: July 1, 2019 - Down 6 months
Official Payoff Mortgage Date: August 1, 2009 - Down 1 month
Dream Payoff Mortgage Date: July 1, 2008 - Down 1 month
Finally got the dream payoff back down to July again!!!!
Original Mortgage Payoff: July 1, 2019 - Down 6 months
Official Payoff Mortgage Date: August 1, 2009 - Down 1 month
Dream Payoff Mortgage Date: July 1, 2008 - Down 1 month
Finally got the dream payoff back down to July again!!!!
Sunday, November 18, 2007
November 16 and 17, 2007 Results
Hmmm
Solitaire: 0
Poker: +11.50
At least the poker account is above 200 again.
Solitaire: 0
Poker: +11.50
At least the poker account is above 200 again.
Friday, November 16, 2007
2008 Goals
Its getting fairly close to the end of the year so I'm thinking its time to go ahead with the 2008 goals or goal even....
The big one is to finish paying off the house by August. I'm saying by August because as of today, we have right at 46,000 left. I'm figuring, depending on the tax situation, that we should have 10K left in the Vanguard account to send to the mortgage which brings the balance down to 36,000. So 36K, we should be able to do at least 4K in extra payments a month, that's 9 months. One month left to go in 2007, so 8 months in 2008, August...tada!!!! If WW keeps their schedule on Survival Tournaments, there should be either 4 or 5 more Survival Tournaments left. If I keep on doing as well in them as I have been (averaging right around 4000 per tournament), that would be 16K in just Survival Tournaments. Add that to the other 2000 minimum we have been sending in extra payments per month (comes out to 18K), those 2 things add up to 34K, so only 2K left to come up with....LOL maybe I should be shooting for July. As long as we get it done in 2008, I will be VERY happy!!!! To think, that this time next year we will be done with the mortgage is a wonderful thought!!!!
Second goal is to have the Vanguard account at least at 30K by the end of the year.
That's it for the financial goals so far for 2008. I'm sure these will have to be readjusted at some point (hopefully upward).
The big one is to finish paying off the house by August. I'm saying by August because as of today, we have right at 46,000 left. I'm figuring, depending on the tax situation, that we should have 10K left in the Vanguard account to send to the mortgage which brings the balance down to 36,000. So 36K, we should be able to do at least 4K in extra payments a month, that's 9 months. One month left to go in 2007, so 8 months in 2008, August...tada!!!! If WW keeps their schedule on Survival Tournaments, there should be either 4 or 5 more Survival Tournaments left. If I keep on doing as well in them as I have been (averaging right around 4000 per tournament), that would be 16K in just Survival Tournaments. Add that to the other 2000 minimum we have been sending in extra payments per month (comes out to 18K), those 2 things add up to 34K, so only 2K left to come up with....LOL maybe I should be shooting for July. As long as we get it done in 2008, I will be VERY happy!!!! To think, that this time next year we will be done with the mortgage is a wonderful thought!!!!
Second goal is to have the Vanguard account at least at 30K by the end of the year.
That's it for the financial goals so far for 2008. I'm sure these will have to be readjusted at some point (hopefully upward).
November 14 and 15, 2007 Results
Didn't play too much Wednesday and didn't play at all Thursday.
Solitaire: 0
Poker: 0
Solitaire: 0
Poker: 0
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Random thoughts
So here it is, midnight again and for the second night in a row I'm not sleeping too well. It wasn't that big of a deal yesterday because I didn't have to go to work, so I could sleep in a little. Tonight, its a problem. I'm going to try to go back to sleep after I type this, but just thought I would type a little to try to help the sleep thing.
Boy how I wish the mortgage was done. We are getting so close, down to 46.1K now.....but it really does feel like this is taking a while. I haven't gotten any good Paypal in recently, so there has been any activity actually going to Chase. Chase still shows the balance at 50.8K. I'm now waiting on 2175 from solitaire to come in and have another 400 dollars in the checking account waiting to send once there is enough in the account to send a decent payment. I don't know why I'm getting impatient with this, I just am. The solitaire is going as good as it has been and that is probably why. I shouldn't say that, it has been going as well, its just not as easy as it use to be. I lost the final round of the survival tournament, AGAIN, so that probably has something to do with the down turn that is about to happen. I'm going to lay off the solitaire for a couple of days, just play the daily tournament and the one card tournaments and that's about it. Time to make a small amount of money on tournaments that I win everytime I play them.....
After we get done with the mortgage, the plan is to setup a rather large emergency fund in the Vanguard account, enough that if for whatever reason something happens at work, we don't have to worry about it. Once that is done, I will probably be a lot happier at work. It will be nice having that security of knowing we have money in the bank and we don't owe anything. We are living on less than 2500 dollars a month now, and with 50K in the bank, it would go a very long way. Then when we actually buy that first mutual fund, that's going to be a very nice day, not to mention the day we pay cash for the next car, and then again when we pay cash for the next house. Kind of hard to imagine having that kind of money on hand, but that is defenitely where we are headed. It will be a countdown to 5 million at that point. I'll be happy with 2 million, but right now 5 million is the goal. That would provide 20K in interest a month even at 4% interest, if we can't live off of that, something is defenitely wrong or gas has gotten way more expensive than it is right now.
Not that I'm not happy now, just there is yet another big project on the way. One that will be the biggest yet. It would appear, no final actual confirmation yet, that the grant we wrote for is probably going to be approved to the tune of 12 million dollars. And, of course, Dr. G calls me tonight and says guess what, you are going to be in charge of it. I don't want to be in charge of it....LOL. Its going to be a royal pain getting this network setup. I know a lot of the hurdles I'm going to face at UMC, I can't imagine the hurdles I will face in Rural Hospital, Mississippi. This will probably entail a medical record for the entire state on the network as well. Good thing All Scripts has been started, guess I need to check to see how that is going. Its probably about to go from beta to full blown implementation.....
We got Rayman 2 today. Its pretty fun. Just doesn't seem to flow like the first one though. Maybe it will later on, we only played it for about 4 hours tonight. The bunnies in the real world back drops is rather strange. And there are bunnies EVERYWHERE. There is no way you could shoot them all.
Ok, I have to stop rambling now and head back to bed. Hopefully I won't wake Susan up. If I do, honey I love you!!!!
Boy how I wish the mortgage was done. We are getting so close, down to 46.1K now.....but it really does feel like this is taking a while. I haven't gotten any good Paypal in recently, so there has been any activity actually going to Chase. Chase still shows the balance at 50.8K. I'm now waiting on 2175 from solitaire to come in and have another 400 dollars in the checking account waiting to send once there is enough in the account to send a decent payment. I don't know why I'm getting impatient with this, I just am. The solitaire is going as good as it has been and that is probably why. I shouldn't say that, it has been going as well, its just not as easy as it use to be. I lost the final round of the survival tournament, AGAIN, so that probably has something to do with the down turn that is about to happen. I'm going to lay off the solitaire for a couple of days, just play the daily tournament and the one card tournaments and that's about it. Time to make a small amount of money on tournaments that I win everytime I play them.....
After we get done with the mortgage, the plan is to setup a rather large emergency fund in the Vanguard account, enough that if for whatever reason something happens at work, we don't have to worry about it. Once that is done, I will probably be a lot happier at work. It will be nice having that security of knowing we have money in the bank and we don't owe anything. We are living on less than 2500 dollars a month now, and with 50K in the bank, it would go a very long way. Then when we actually buy that first mutual fund, that's going to be a very nice day, not to mention the day we pay cash for the next car, and then again when we pay cash for the next house. Kind of hard to imagine having that kind of money on hand, but that is defenitely where we are headed. It will be a countdown to 5 million at that point. I'll be happy with 2 million, but right now 5 million is the goal. That would provide 20K in interest a month even at 4% interest, if we can't live off of that, something is defenitely wrong or gas has gotten way more expensive than it is right now.
Not that I'm not happy now, just there is yet another big project on the way. One that will be the biggest yet. It would appear, no final actual confirmation yet, that the grant we wrote for is probably going to be approved to the tune of 12 million dollars. And, of course, Dr. G calls me tonight and says guess what, you are going to be in charge of it. I don't want to be in charge of it....LOL. Its going to be a royal pain getting this network setup. I know a lot of the hurdles I'm going to face at UMC, I can't imagine the hurdles I will face in Rural Hospital, Mississippi. This will probably entail a medical record for the entire state on the network as well. Good thing All Scripts has been started, guess I need to check to see how that is going. Its probably about to go from beta to full blown implementation.....
We got Rayman 2 today. Its pretty fun. Just doesn't seem to flow like the first one though. Maybe it will later on, we only played it for about 4 hours tonight. The bunnies in the real world back drops is rather strange. And there are bunnies EVERYWHERE. There is no way you could shoot them all.
Ok, I have to stop rambling now and head back to bed. Hopefully I won't wake Susan up. If I do, honey I love you!!!!
November 13, 2007 Results
Another good day for solitaire, probably the last for a while.....
Solitaire: +400
Poker: +20
Solitaire: +400
Poker: +20
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
November 12, 2007 Results
Yesterday are the days I remember why I love Worldwinner so much....
Solitaire: +800
Poker: -11
Solitaire: +800
Poker: -11
Monday, November 12, 2007
47K
Yep, 4 days later, 47K is GONE!!!! Solitaire has been very good today, cashed out 500 so far today, so that has lead to the 47K mark being gone very quickly. I like it, I like it a lot!!!!
November 11, 2007 Results
Wooohooo, a dang good day in solitaire, and not too bad in poker.
Solitaire: +300
Poker: +42
The poker was in the Sunday 100K tournament with an 11 dollar buy-in. I made it to 800 out of 17,000 people.....
Solitaire: +300
Poker: +42
The poker was in the Sunday 100K tournament with an 11 dollar buy-in. I made it to 800 out of 17,000 people.....
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Friday, November 9, 2007
End of Year 1 on WW
So I missed the first anniversay on WW by 2 days, it was November 7th...whoops. But I just pulled the numbers. I cleared just over 72K during the first year. Not too bad for playing solitiare. Probably won't ever have another year quite as good as that one, but hey, it defenitely helped getting out of debt and now paying off the mortgage. Just probably isn't going to look too good on the taxes, but oh well.
November 8, 2007 Results
Solitaire: +100
Poker: -2
Yes Benji, still on the losing streak in poker, 2 more 5 dollar games with only a 3rd to show for it.
Imaginary Mortgage Balance: 47,837
Poker: -2
Yes Benji, still on the losing streak in poker, 2 more 5 dollar games with only a 3rd to show for it.
Imaginary Mortgage Balance: 47,837
Thursday, November 8, 2007
48K
48K gone!!!! Another 1000 out the door. Only 47K more.....we are getting there. 3000 marked off the board this month.
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Doctor
Have to go to the doctor today...blah!!! I have 2 moles that I want to get looked at. I'm probably just being paranoid, but I would rather be safe than sorry....
November 5, 2007 Results
Another day, more profits :-)
Solitaire: +110
Poker: 0
Good to be in the positive again. I'm on the last step of getting the solitaire account to 500, so the profits from this 100 person tournament have been pretty good. Just withdrew the 70 for the 450 step, once it gets to 500, I'll take out 80 more and then just start keeping 500 in the account.
Susan and I have also been playing in the Family Feud Survival Tournament. We are actually up to level 7 at the moment, so not too bad!!!
Solitaire: +110
Poker: 0
Good to be in the positive again. I'm on the last step of getting the solitaire account to 500, so the profits from this 100 person tournament have been pretty good. Just withdrew the 70 for the 450 step, once it gets to 500, I'll take out 80 more and then just start keeping 500 in the account.
Susan and I have also been playing in the Family Feud Survival Tournament. We are actually up to level 7 at the moment, so not too bad!!!
Monday, November 5, 2007
Mortgage update
Ok, here are the latest numbers on the mortgage, haven't posted this in a bit, so I thought I would go ahead and do it.
Real balance: 50,826.84
Imaginary balance: 48,260.00
Still hoping to pay this off in either April, or May, depending on the tax situation which we should know more about in either February or March....depending on the tax situation, we might be able to pay off the last 10,000 with a payment coming from the Vanguard account. It will be sad to see the Vanguard balance that low again, but it will come with a paid off house, so that's defenitely not a bad thing!!!
Real balance: 50,826.84
Imaginary balance: 48,260.00
Still hoping to pay this off in either April, or May, depending on the tax situation which we should know more about in either February or March....depending on the tax situation, we might be able to pay off the last 10,000 with a payment coming from the Vanguard account. It will be sad to see the Vanguard balance that low again, but it will come with a paid off house, so that's defenitely not a bad thing!!!
November 3, 2007 Results - PROFITS!!!
Yeah, finally back on the winning ways. I'm trying to build up the solitaire account to 500 so that I can stop moving money back and forth, but I'm taking out bits along the way.
Solitaire: +130
Poker: -9.90
Solitaire: +130
Poker: -9.90
Friday, November 2, 2007
November 1, 2007 Results
Not much happening in Solitaire. I have hit another brick wall it would appear. I need to just let it happen instead of thinking about it....
Solitaire: 0
Poker: 0
Not a good way to start a new month....
Solitaire: 0
Poker: 0
Not a good way to start a new month....
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Mortgage Payment Again
Got to pay another big chunck of the mortgage today. Another 2925 was sent to Chase, this was the money from the Survival Tournament. This brings the extra for this month up to 6355.23.
Original Payoff House Date: January 2020 - Down 12 months
Official Payoff House Date: September 2009 - Down 1 month
Dream Payoff House Date: August 2008 - Even
Dream payoff still didn't go back down to July... I just don't understand...LOL
Original Payoff House Date: January 2020 - Down 12 months
Official Payoff House Date: September 2009 - Down 1 month
Dream Payoff House Date: August 2008 - Even
Dream payoff still didn't go back down to July... I just don't understand...LOL
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