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Jan. 28th, 2006 09:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vicarzThe following post is domestic - that is to say the links are from my mom, and the rest is quite domestic and dull.
My arms hurts really bad - I think I really do need to try the doctors. I thought it was just stress when my neck was all balled up, but now keeping my arm on the desk is causing a lot of pain in my shoulder. Sometimes it shoots up my neck, other times along the back, or in the tricep. I haven't done the gym in 3 weeks now. This fucking blows.
My experiment with the Motley Fool is about a year old, and overall I beat the crap out of the market. I was up 9.28% while the Dow and S&P were up 0.07% & 5.22% respectively. I bought 10 stocks, and went nuts watching them. The one that did the best (until a recent plummet) was MWY - midway, as in the maker of my pinball machine. I didn't care if it did well or not, I just liked being silly and having it. When it did well I was thrilled, if it died I would have laughed because it was a stock purchase based on my love for my pinball machine. So with that in mind, I was wondering what to fund my Roth IRA with. Last year I got Merk and PFE thinking the lawsuit scare had lowered their stock too much. Well it's a year later and they basically flatlined, but when you work in dividends I have a slight increase. I left them in place...but what do I buy while BushCo runs the country into the ground? Bullets? Oil? Wiretap equipment? I went back to my MENTAL STATE and decided I should have fun with my investments - I bought TOPP (makers of tootsie rolls!) and MVL - marvel comics. the MF likes MVL, but not TOPP. I love TOPP, their financials are very sound - only they are not being innovative...but really I just like the idea that I bought stock in tootsie rolls. So if it dies, I can giggle that "Gee, I bought stock in tootsie rolls. How could that have gone wrong?" If my other goes down, HULK SMASH! Giggles!
This year I need to hone in a bit more on my finances. I am thinking of terminating all my mutual funds and mixing up my own stock purchases a bit more. The problem is all the research you need to do - reasonable risk tolerance and hard work really would pay off. Playing with my IRA is one thing, but my real finances I have to be more careful with (understand the vast majority of my funds are in the TSP - government 401k type thing).
For ten years this apt has been humid, even after running a humidifier all day. Well, I just ebayed a great humidifier and...I can't use it. I don't turn it on. For some unexplained reason, the humidity has plunged from 50-60% (40 after running a dehumidifier for 8 hours) to 20-25%. That's w/o runnining the dehumidifier, and leaving the window closed when I shower. It's...too dry. I'm going to wait this out a bit, but I'm in the awkward space of potentially needing a humidifier. Maybe all the humids saw this terrifying Dr. Who-like robot and are scared off.
Now - great points from my mom:
Lawyer Dons Dominatrix Mask in Mass. Trial
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060127/ap_on_re_us/dominatrix_trial
I actually have a huge problem with charging a dom on manslaughter for her customer dying. What if he had a heart attack while banging a hooker? What a waste of taxpayer resources.
Recently the Washington Post sent out the following trivia question:
Which President had sons named Abraham, Martin and John?
A. Anthony Kennedy
B. David Souter
C. Antonin Scalia
D. Sandra Day O'Connor
Reworded version: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/politics/
My arms hurts really bad - I think I really do need to try the doctors. I thought it was just stress when my neck was all balled up, but now keeping my arm on the desk is causing a lot of pain in my shoulder. Sometimes it shoots up my neck, other times along the back, or in the tricep. I haven't done the gym in 3 weeks now. This fucking blows.
My experiment with the Motley Fool is about a year old, and overall I beat the crap out of the market. I was up 9.28% while the Dow and S&P were up 0.07% & 5.22% respectively. I bought 10 stocks, and went nuts watching them. The one that did the best (until a recent plummet) was MWY - midway, as in the maker of my pinball machine. I didn't care if it did well or not, I just liked being silly and having it. When it did well I was thrilled, if it died I would have laughed because it was a stock purchase based on my love for my pinball machine. So with that in mind, I was wondering what to fund my Roth IRA with. Last year I got Merk and PFE thinking the lawsuit scare had lowered their stock too much. Well it's a year later and they basically flatlined, but when you work in dividends I have a slight increase. I left them in place...but what do I buy while BushCo runs the country into the ground? Bullets? Oil? Wiretap equipment? I went back to my MENTAL STATE and decided I should have fun with my investments - I bought TOPP (makers of tootsie rolls!) and MVL - marvel comics. the MF likes MVL, but not TOPP. I love TOPP, their financials are very sound - only they are not being innovative...but really I just like the idea that I bought stock in tootsie rolls. So if it dies, I can giggle that "Gee, I bought stock in tootsie rolls. How could that have gone wrong?" If my other goes down, HULK SMASH! Giggles!
This year I need to hone in a bit more on my finances. I am thinking of terminating all my mutual funds and mixing up my own stock purchases a bit more. The problem is all the research you need to do - reasonable risk tolerance and hard work really would pay off. Playing with my IRA is one thing, but my real finances I have to be more careful with (understand the vast majority of my funds are in the TSP - government 401k type thing).
For ten years this apt has been humid, even after running a humidifier all day. Well, I just ebayed a great humidifier and...I can't use it. I don't turn it on. For some unexplained reason, the humidity has plunged from 50-60% (40 after running a dehumidifier for 8 hours) to 20-25%. That's w/o runnining the dehumidifier, and leaving the window closed when I shower. It's...too dry. I'm going to wait this out a bit, but I'm in the awkward space of potentially needing a humidifier. Maybe all the humids saw this terrifying Dr. Who-like robot and are scared off.
Now - great points from my mom:
Lawyer Dons Dominatrix Mask in Mass. Trial
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060127/ap_on_re_us/dominatrix_trial
I actually have a huge problem with charging a dom on manslaughter for her customer dying. What if he had a heart attack while banging a hooker? What a waste of taxpayer resources.
Recently the Washington Post sent out the following trivia question:
Which President had sons named Abraham, Martin and John?
A. Anthony Kennedy
B. David Souter
C. Antonin Scalia
D. Sandra Day O'Connor
Reworded version: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/politics/
