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This weeks results: Kelverin: 10-3 Volo: 10-3 Enoch: 8-5 GD: 8-5 Season Standings: Volo: 70-33 GD: 68-35 Kelverin: 67-36 Enoch: 62-41 Volo is alone in front again.

I've read LotR many times over the years and I always thought it was a great story told somewhat ponderously. As an adveture story it is good but I never thought it was a crowning achievement in western literature and I've never understood the folks who do. And I've found most of the one's who do are Brits. I guess they might be just national pride but considering the contributions of Bitish writers like, oh I dont know, Milton, Bacon, Shakespere, Austin, Mallory, Dickens, you might have heard of these folks, far outshine anything Tolkien wrote? In that scope the Wheel of Time series wouldn't even register.

Exactly why I buy all of my clothes, tools, appliances, etc at Sears. If they had groceries I'd never have to go anywhere else. Sears at least knows men are still men. And Outdoor World too. You won't find any fussy effeminete men, or merchandise geared towards them, in there.

Green Bay at Cleveland: Packers have a lot of question marks, Brown have a hell of a lot more. Packers win San Diego at Kansas City: Weather will be a factor. Chiefs win. Indianapolis at St. Louis: An unusually long scrimmage for Indy today. Colts win Minnesota at Pittsburgh: Once again weather will be a factor. Big Ben will be a bigger factor. Steelers win. New England at Tampa Bay: Hey Coach Morris, what is this hand basket we're in and where are we going? Pats win. SF 49ers at Houston: This game will come down to QBs, and Schaub is better. Texans win close Buffalo at Carolina: This one could go either way but Carolinas O is better and the Bills D. Panthers win NY Jets at Oakland: If the Jets lose this one they had better stay in Oakland, a lynch mob will be waiting at JFK. Jets win Atlanta at Dallas: Cowboys are a paper tiger. Falcons win. Chicago at Cincinnati: Cincy screwed me last week but I'll give them another chance. Begals win. New Orleans at Miami: Only a real gambler would vote against the Saints right now. So I'm a gambler! Dolphins win! Arizona at NY Giants: If this were in Tempe I might go the other way. In New Jersey the Cards are dead. Giants win. Philadelphia at Washington: Go Redskins. Eagles win.

What a 9th inning last night (it was all I watched truth be told).

Good for you, although that's some rather pricey bourbon to be mixing up with ginger ale. Save the good stuff for the sipping! Oh it was just a splash to give it a little fizz I assure you. My brother gave me a case of Woodford Reserve for my birthday last year. Now that stuff you drink neat or with just a little ice. I used to be strictly a beer man but I have really gotten to appreciate bourbon as I've gotten older.

I'll read it.... later. I'm with Hurlie, it's hard to get back into that one after a long layoff.

I am very uncomfortable with that whole idea. Obama has absolutely no constitutional power to regulate the pay of anyone not working for the government. This was one of the reasons I was so adamantly opposed to any private company being "taken over" by the government because it suddenlt means the government is no longer the neutral referee bound to abide by it's own laws but a business partner granted extraconstitutional powers over a private entity simply by the nature of it's investment in said company. So, these companies shook hands with the devil accepting bailout money and it's no surprise that when you do that you will do it in hell. But the Obama admin is arrogant in the exteme and might well use the fact that they are going to get away with this to push for more regulation, this time on companies and individuals that did not accept government "partnership". When that happens it will be time to fight. With speech, legislation, and ballots of course. While in the Illinois Senate Obama was in favor of a maximum as well as minimum wage. He may want to try to make it happen now. Suddenly Ayn Rand is making more and more sense.

Sooo barring a miracle we are looking at a Phillies - Yankees World Series. Ugh. Anyway they could both lose? I can not think of a less interesting match up. Oh I'll probably watch.... but I won't like it.

I just got home. Dogs are happy. I'm going to pour myself a drink (Knob Creek and Canada Dry), followed by another, and another, and sabotage myself right out of sobriety.

On a serious note, Krezack are you familiar with an investment strategy called bottom feeding? The idea is to look for a penny stock (that is a stock whose common share is less than $1 US) that is a little volitile over a three to six month term. If it is bouncing in a somewhat predictable way you put in a buy and sell order at the same time. For example if GD Enterprises has a stock price of $0.75 and during the last six months the price has been below $0.60 and above $0.80 more than once or twice you put in a buy order at $0.60 and a sell order at $0.80. To make this work you need to go big, $10k-$15k. Once the sale triggers you have a positive return of $0.20 per share This is usually best accomplished with penny stocks because they are more volitile and will swing more and you can afford to buy bulk. A $0.20 swing when you own five hundred shares is beneath notice, a $0.20 swing when you own 7500 shares is a happy moment. I have used this in the past and was able to rack up a small but nice sum of cash from time to time. I paid for a tile floor in my first house this way. But it is not for the faint of heart because these companies stocks are low because their worth/performance/stability are low. And you need to do extensive reseatch or you'd be better off with the coke and hookers.

Lets see... In my life and career I have: Run for public office - Fail Got married - Fail Started two businesses - Double fail Went broke - Major fail Graduated College - Ok I did get that one done but there were times it could have gone either way Landed a high paying job with a major company - Fail Either I'm screwing myself up left and right or I just have really, really bad luck. In light of that track record I think you should all kneel in my presence... for I am the King of SH!

I believe she can restock food and water and still have the voyage be unassisted, she just cannot add or repair hardware with anything other than whats on the boat now. The thing is, the course she is taking will mean that ports will be few and very far between.

Yeah, from her blog it sounded like she was eating everything in sight.

I have four, three of which I keep paid off. One has a moderate balance (just south of $4k) but that all went to pay for surgery for one of my dogs earlier this year. Once I finish restoring and sell some of the stuff I just bought at an auction I hope to pay that off. After the car accident earlier this year I was close to $18k in credit card debt becuase I had lost my job, then had the accident and I was using them to pay bills and such. After the settlement I paid them all off.

Take it to Las Vegas and play $100 hand Black Jack. Just go easy on the booze! Seriously, $50k with a five year turn around I would split it up of course. Stock/Securities are a bad bet right now despite the recent uptick in world markets because of the weakness of the US dollar and the fact that the US is still just one bank failure away from disaster. So I would diversify by splitting the total three ways with the largest going into real estate somewhere with high growth potential and low tax (in the US I'd look at empty lots zoned for residental near Dallas/FT Worth, an area largely unaffected by the recession but prices are a bargain). The next largest I'd put into commodities but not gold I think because it is already very high and has to be nearing it's ceiling. Silver or some other real commodity would be a good bet with good growth potential and low risk. The last I'd use for bonds from a stable source with preditcable interest to hedge against any downturn in the real estate investments. That strategy will not make you rich but barring a disaster will give you a much better than 7% return on your 50k after 5-7 years. Of course over the 5-7 you will have to watch what you have and the market becuase un upturn in the market will lead to a downturn in commodities (usually) and you may need to make a move. If you want to invest for 5-7 years and not worry or think about it, you really need to think bonds or low risk mutuals. But you will not get a very good return.

And I believe their deal with Siruis is why they have a delay on internet audio. At least I can't imagine any other reason.

One thing is for sure, the season race between the four of us got tight pretty quick. Volo had a big lead and it vanished in one week.

It's because the iPhone uses WCDMA and the AT&T is the only WCDMA carrier in the US. Until a few months ago anyway, T-Mobile just started rolling it out but they are years behind AT&T.

Here is her blog for those that are interested: http://youngestround.blogspot.com/ After reading a few entries she sounds very... sixteen I guess.

The Vendee Globe is the race I was talking about. Only they have it every four years, not every year. Real hardcore stuff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vend%C3%A9e_Globe

This weeks results: Kelverin: 8-6 Enoch: 8-6 GD: 8-6 Volo: 3-11 (ouch) Season Standings GD: 60-30 Volo: 60-30 Kelverin: 57-33 Enoch: 54-36

I don't expect it to be free but $50 for streaming audio via the internet especially when it's not live is a little unreasonable. It's even more for the MLB audio. It is not delayed at least.

Now reading A Big Little Life by Dean Koontz and Where Men Win Glory by Jon Kraukauer