I want to try to invest at least a portion of my Amazon earnings (Amazon Associates program) back into Amazon (AMZN) stock. Amazon has been very good to me. I think they are good company and will be around for a while. So hopefully I will buy a little more each quarter, if not more often.
I may also try to invest some of my Google earnings (Google Adsense) back into to Google (GOOG) stock as well, though my Google earnings aren’t anywhere near my Amazon earnings.
I finally got my Amazon payment. I placed an order for $1000 of EEM which is an emerging markets fund (ETF) from iShares. This was done in my wife’s Roth IRA, and will bring hers to the max of $4000 for the 2005 tax year. I chose EEM because it has been doing well in mine. I already have a bunch of IYR, though I will probably buy more when I start buying for the 2006 tax year. I still have some money from my Amazon payment left. I also have a few checks including one from Google that I need to cash. I may buy some more shares of something in my regular account…maybe a little more of Amazon.
These guys should have been tried a long time ago. Bastards! These guy’s and coherts such as Andy Fastow and greedy A-holes like them caused the collapse of the stock market. I did not even have a significant investment in Enron or any of the other companies that were involved in financial wrongdoing, but with money in the S&P 500 and other funds, I took a big hit anyway. My 401k which dropped to about 40% of it’s value, is finally back up to where it was. And it only took 5 years! And all of the employees of Enron, and the handfull company’s who lost their jobs and savings, while sons of bitches like these got rich. Ken Lay with those fat cheeks is going to make a nice bitch for some lonely prisoner with a name like Cletus or Bubba!
I heard tapes of some of these guys calling to have power stations taken off line to cause power shortages to drive the price of electricity up to make themselves rich all the while raping the end consumer. Now maybe Kenny and Jeffy will know what it’s like to be raped…literally! 
(from email dated 1/25 @ 6:46am)
Dear Amazon.com Associate,
It’s time again for referral fee payments to our Associates! December 31st marked the end of the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2005, and we have just sent payments to eligible Associates for the referral fees earned during the past quarter.
(from email dated 1/27 @ 9:29pm)
The following payment has been made by Amazon Services Inc.. It will be paid by bank transfer directly into your bank account.
Payment date: 30-JAN-2006
Huh? Was payment sent 1/25 or 1/27 or will it be sent on 1/30?
I just got off the phone with Amazon Associates support, and payments HAVE NOT been sent yet. Apparently payments were ‘released’ on 1/25. So when they said in the 1/25 email that “payment were just sent”, that was not true. And in the 1/27 that said payments had been sent, that was not true. He said that payments should be sent by the end of the month (either today or tomorrow). When I asked about the 1/30 payment date in the 1/27 email, he said that was not necessarily true either.
So I am still waiting for my payment!
Regular Brokerage Account:
| Name | Sym | Shares | Value | Gain/Loss |
| Advance Auto Parts | AAP | 31.228 | $1,342.49 | $100.66 |
| Amazon.com | AMZN | 27.641 | $1,248.54 | $301.60 |
| Cabela’s | CAB | 26.247 | $463.00 | ($34.91) |
| Carnival Cruise Lines | CCL | 20.643 | $1,082.73 | $76.46 |
| Citigroup | C | 0.047 | $2.20 | ($0.03) |
| Dick’s Sporting Goods | DKS | 52.390 | $1,924.81 | $83.86 |
| eBay | EBAY | 25.911 | $1,140.34 | $136.19 |
| GOOG | 0.437 | $189.08 | ($10.72) | |
| US Real Estate Index | IYR | 36.001 | $2,484.79 | $149.96 |
| Lowes | LOW | 24.912 | $1,623.02 | $128.70 |
| Red Robin Gourmet Burgers | RRGB | 31.934 | $1,279.60 | ($194.40) |
| Target | TGT | 17.476 | $947.02 | ($6.89) |
| Total | $13,727.62 | $730.49 |
My Roth IRA Account:
| Name | Sym | Shares | Value | Gain/Loss |
| DJ Select Dividend Fund | DVY | 0.061 | $3.83 | $0.06 |
| MSCI Emerging Markets Index | EEM | 22.120 | $2,220.63 | $703.81 |
| US Real Estate Index | IYR | 50.957 | $3,517.05 | $419.57 |
| S&P SmallCap 600/BARRA Value | IJS | 23.909 | $1,664.07 | $159.36 |
| Pengrowth Energy Trust A | PGH | 24.842 | $622.54 | $91.67 |
| Primewest Energy | PWI | 20.734 | $661.21 | $131.47 |
| Total | $8,689.33 | $1,505.94 |
Wife’s Roth IRA Account:
| Name | Sym | Shares | Value | Gain/Loss |
| S&P MidCap 400/BARRA Value | IJJ | 14.497 | $1,079.59 | $77.02 |
| US Real Estate Index | IYR | 32.731 | $2,259.09 | $237.38 |
| Total | $3,338.69 | $314.40 |
401k:
| Name | Value |
| INVESCO 500 INDEX TRUST | $54,345.03 |
| DREYFUS MID CAP INDEX | $57,618.68 |
| ROYCE LOW PRICED STOCK | $63,636.76 |
| AIM INTERNATIONAL GROWTH | $63,228.26 |
| Total | $238,828.73 |