I got my direct deposit payment from Amazon this afternoon. The payment was a little over $1000, so I went ahead, and bought another $1000 worth of IYR (DJ US Real Estate Index fund) fin my wife’s Roth IRA.
I have been playing with my wordpress theme, and tweaked it with some php code to add meta tags for description and keywords based on the page title. The description is the page title followed by a hyphen, and then the blog title. The keywords are parsed from the page title, with small words removed. Just edit your theme, and plug this into the header template under the title part (this requires some basic knowledge of html). I am still playing with it, and there is room for improvement.
(If you want a simpler approach, download one of my themes at http://www.zero2rich.com/themes/, and this code is already built in.
<title><?php
$title=trim(wp_title(”,false));
if ($title) {
echo “$title - “;
bloginfo(’name’);
} else {
bloginfo(’name’);
echo ” - “;
bloginfo(’description’);
}
?></title>
<meta name=”description” content=”<?php
$title=trim(wp_title(”,false));
if ($title) {
echo “$title - “;
bloginfo(’name’);
} else {
bloginfo(’name’);
echo ” - “;
bloginfo(’description’);
}
?>” />
<meta name=”keywords” content=”<?php
$smallwordsarray = array(”of”,”a”,”the”,”and”,”an”,”or”,”nor”,
“but”,”is”,”if”,”then”,”else”,”when”,”at”,”from”,
“by”,”on”,”off”,”for”,”in”,”out”,”over”,”to”,”into”,”with”,”this”);
$title=trim(wp_title(”,false));
$keywords=split(”[[:space:][:punct:]]+”,$title);
if (!$title) {
bloginfo(’name’);
$keywords=array(”");
}
$c=0;
foreach ($keywords as $k) {
if ($k and !in_array($k, $smallwordsarray)) {
if ($c > 0) {
echo “,”;
}
echo “$k”;
$c=1;
}
}
?>” />
With the new local Red Robin (RRGB) open, I convinced some co-workers to try it for lunch. I had been telling them how great it is. They went there with the idea that they wouldn’t like it, and they could tell me I was wrong. Joke’s on them. They loved it. One of them said it was the best burger he had ever had. Two of them tried the Banzai Burger, and they loved it. My short swarthy Italian friend thinks that pineapple on a burger is wierd. My next goal is to get him to try the Banzai Burger himself. The service again was great, and the food fantastic. Kudos Red Robin.
My wife and I went there for dinner. It was great. The food was fantastic, and the server was awesome. Excellent!
Regular Brokerage Account:
| Name | Sym | Shares | Value | Gain/Loss |
| Advance Auto Parts | AAP | 31.228 | $1,211.33 | ($30.50) |
| Amazon.com | AMZN | 23.495 | $1,033.78 | $286.80 |
| Cabela’s | CAB | 26.247 | $454.86 | ($43.05) |
| Carnival Cruise Lines | CCL | 20.549 | $987.79 | ($13.37) |
| Citigroup | C | 0.047 | $2.13 | ($0.10) |
| Dick’s Sporting Goods | DKS | 52.390 | $1,518.26 | ($322.68) |
| eBay | EBAY | 25.911 | $1,037.22 | $33.06 |
| US Real Estate Index | IYR | 8.675 | $538.20 | $24.77 |
| Lowes | LOW | 24.887 | $1,563.65 | $70.82 |
| Michaels Stores | MIK | 18.215 | $588.53 | ($157.24) |
| PetsMart | PETM | 49.012 | $1,109.63 | ($385.34) |
| Red Robin Gourmet Burgers | RRGB | 21.043 | $981.02 | ($92.98) |
| Target | TGT | 17.444 | $920.52 | ($31.68) |
| Total | $11,946.93 | ($661.49) |
My Roth IRA Account:
| Name | Sym | Shares | Value | Gain/Loss |
| DJ Select Dividend Fund | DVY | 0.061 | $3.70 | ($0.07) |
| MSCI Emerging Markets Index | EEM | 21.882 | $1,775.51 | $281.62 |
| US Real Estate Index | IYR | 49.780 | $3,088.49 | $34.17 |
| S&P SmallCap 600/BARRA Value | IJS | 23.839 | $1,476.35 | ($23.88) |
| Pengrowth Energy Trust A | PGH | 24.043 | $560.20 | $47.13 |
| Primewest Energy | PWI | 20.100 | $604.41 | $93.88 |
| Total | $7,508.66 | $432.84 |
401k:
| Name | Value |
| INVESCO 500 INDEX TRUST | $49,135.59 |
| DREYFUS MID CAP INDEX | $50,149.88 |
| ROYCE LOW PRICED STOCK | $52,394.64 |
| AIM INTERNATIONAL GROWTH | $53,478.99 |
| Total | $205,159.10 |