So an historic day in US History – the largest one day drop for the DJIA in terms of points (+770) and still a hefty percentage-wise. Are these companies really worth 7-10% less today than they were Friday? No, of course not, but you’ll have people pulling the plugs on their portfolios and causing a [...]
Archive for September, 2008
What would Chicken Little say?
Posted in Uncategorized on September 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Ed McMahon is what is wrong with this country
Posted in Uncategorized on September 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The hope of millions, the voice of America, the posterchild for what’s wrong with this country. Ed McMahon is now apparantly going to sell his skills as a ‘rapper’ for Freecreditreport.com which is owned by Experian and allows individuals to see all three of their credit reports. My how the mighty have fallen.
Mr. McMahon don’t [...]
Friends
Posted in Uncategorized on September 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’ll be a whopping 38 in October. I’ve lived seemingly all across this country now. When you move somewhere you’re bound to lose touch with ‘friends’ and acquaintances. You keep in touch with those you want to, or at least you try. Certainly distance, although supposedly making the heart grow fonder, seemingly makes staying friends [...]
Did I mention my house was for sale???
Posted in Uncategorized on September 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Five weeks, half dozen showings, not bad for this market. Now that we’re closing (hopefully next week) on the house in NY, we’ve dropped our price considerably…into the ‘we’re ready to sell category’ of $479K. Since we’d started at $550K, it’s only a 12.9% discount – consider it a big coupon. Now considering that the [...]
So long Yankee Stadium
Posted in Uncategorized on September 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I remember being 7-years old and driving down the Saw Mill River Parkway on our way to Yankees Stadium. We’d be in the back of the family station wagon, you know the kind with the wood paneling on the side? We’d have our baseball cards with all the ‘great’ Yankees of the time along with [...]
Poker – a Monday night tournament
Posted in Uncategorized on September 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I played at an acquaintance’s card room last night taking down 2nd place out of 18 players. This is mostly a ‘country club’ game near Alpharetta/Roswell and played as such. There’s some fairly deep pockets and it’s certainly a good-ol’ boys game. The players are friendly and the atmosphere was nice, clean. They have a [...]
Poker in Atlanta, my last few games
Posted in Uncategorized on September 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My last game is coming up soon. It’s been fun running my own game. It’s also been interesting and fun playing in other games throughout Atlanta. I’ll certainly miss the regular Friday night game with players I’ve played with for years now. It’s not even about the money…not in the least. Some of these conversations [...]
Is it college basketball season yet???
Posted in Uncategorized on September 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Syracuse vs. Penn State in football. If you go back 15 years, this was one of the fiercest rivalries in all of college football. The “rivalry” continues this weekend as Penn State visits the Carrier Dome. You know….at one time the Yankees-Royals used to be a fierce rivalry in the George Brett/Graig Nettles days… But [...]
10th year wedding anniversary
Posted in Uncategorized on September 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Ten years ago I walked down the aisle with my college sweetheart and best friend. We celebrated last night by spending an evening at Roy’s which was one of the places we dined at on our honeymoon in Hawaii. It was nice to walk down memory lane and think about all we’ve been through and [...]
Who’s Barack’s daddy? He has two dads…
Posted in Uncategorized on September 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.tmz.com/2008/09/02/barack-makes-his-tory-with-his-two-dads/
