Guard Dog

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

Indeed. That , or a Korean restaurant. I was in Korea for Team Spirit in '90 and Valiant Blitz in '91. I actually tried fried dog. I can't say that I liked it but you never look at a dog the same way again. It was still better than kimchee though.

Actually after browsing their website it looks like the UFL is actually doing 3.5 of the five things I suggested. The best part is the free game video on the internet. I always thought it was low class by the NFL charging what the do for that. MLB too. www.getufl.com

The one thing I've always wanted to do is run the Iditarod. God knows I have enough dogs to do it.

Dunno about Sacramento, I just threw that out there as a city likely to support a team with no other pro sport. As for the UFLs long term prospects, who knows. I think it can succeed if it does five things: 1. Do not antangonize the NFL. Do not go after NFL advertisers, compete with the NFL for broadcast time, aggesively pursue NFL free agents. They can not help but lose. The NFL casts off legions of players every year, those are the ones you build your teams with. 2. Do not exepect or plan on TV revenue in your business model, focus on attendance and local marketing (local indepedent broadcasts coupled with cable deals with a network like VS or Fox Sports. Offer games for free (with commercials) on the internet until the brand grows. Radio (including satellite/internet radio) is a must as well. 3. Keep control over your franchises and their business models. Let the league own the teams because an owners interests are not always the leagues interests. This will also keep salaries under control (that is what killed the Arena League). 4. Stay within your scope while you grow your brand. They should be locating in midsize cities that have no other pro sports like Memphis, Birmingham, Oklahoma City, etc. they should target cities with a fair standard of living and basic necessities are not too expensive. Not San Fransisco where everything is expensive and if you do have money for a game, you are going to see the 49ers or Raiders. Keep the tickets cheap and make deals for families and activities for kids and for Gods sake, outreach, outreach outreach. Get the team and players out in the community, sponsor little leagues, charity drives etc. Make the team part of the community. Minor League baseball does this very well. 5. Respect the game and your brand. The XFL wanted to be NFL meets Pro Wrestling. The result was an utter abortion. Basicly follow the AFL model from the 60's and 70's.

Stinkin Bucs. I'm too frustrated to even rant. It just sucks. Volo, I think you might be in trouble. I count eight wrong just as things stand now. So far Enoch is looking like the winner this week. Wow, what a finish to the Vikes Ravens game. And I think it's safe to say the Saints are for real. Can you believe I actually watched a UFL game from start to finish? Yep, I watched the delay broadcast of the Redwoods/Sentinels game at 2 this morning. Sloppy, sloppy game play and very ugly uniforms. But is was intersting and there were a lot of "so thats where that guy ended up" moments. I doesn't make sense though, this league was supposed to be in underserved markets like Orlando and Las Vegas. Why the heck did they put teams in San Fransisco and New York, two markets with four NFL teams each? Sacramento and Memphis would have made more sense.

Wow, is anyone watching NLCS game 2? Go Dodgers.

Heading down to Jackson MS tonight. I bid on a bunch of old stuff at a bankruptcy auction. A snooker table, 2 jukeboxes, karaoke machine, and a broken pinball machine. Should be worth a little bit once restored. Have a good weekend everyone.