I had planned on only updating this once every 3 months, but decided to do an extra one today.  I changed my account yesterday by adding another stock to it.  In updating, I had noticed a few months ago that I had over 60% cash in there, which really is too much.  I had planned on buying CSCO because at the time it was looking like it might go down to 48, which the price I decided I wanted to buy it at (for some reason).  Well, it never went down that far, and now has been over 50 since around that time.  So, yesterday, I went and looked at the Dogs of the Dow site, and lo and behold, there is MMM (3M company) as one of the 'small' dogs, coming it at $86 a share and paying an almost 7% (!) dividend!  Well, without asking any questions (which is not always a good way to do things), I went and bought 20 shares of it, which matched the amount of average value of the other stocks in the account - about $1750 apiece.  Not that I cared that much, but I found out MMM was going through some legal battles with some of the chemicals or something.  Nothing like the shit show surrounding Union Carbide many years back, but enough to instill some fear, making their stock fall under $100, which I couldn't recall the last time it had done that.  When I look at something like that, and it occurs as a surprise to me, I've learned that I should act on it, which I did.  Well, today I get up and look at the accounts, and the market jumped a bit, but it turns out MMM is all in the news and jumped up by $5 a share!  I had good timing for once, even though history shows that you don't really need good timing with AIM.  It was just nice to have some for a change.

I'll get back on schedule with this in a couple months...