I am traveling to the "Beast" (aka NYC) today and will return Wednesday evening.
I have a new suit to wear and new shirts, too. Both are custom tailored to fit. I've worn custom business clothing for 25 years. But I gained some weight slowly from about 2001 through early last year and my old suits didn't fit well anymore. A problem I've always had has been getting suits & shirts to fit. Years of lifting weights make my size non-standard (lol, the tailor said "weightlifting does terrible things to a body"). This new suit & shirts fit me much better and I think I'll be lot more comfortable.
PS: The action this AM still looks like beefer trading action; nothing meaningful. The Rut leading the selling and the oils selling off indicate that to me. We could get the rotation I mentioned a few days ago, but I thought they'd load up on the Rut more. I guess there weren't many real buyers in that move to the old high. The ISM mfg. number was good.
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have fun in that crazy town. great place to visit, especially the beacon theatre but i wudnt wanna live there, for sure.
shaved another bean.5. 1 hour run last nite, 3 beers, some turkey and veggies for dinner.
i refuse to buy new clothes!
I'm taking the train nowadays. Flying stinks & driving has gotten worse every year.
I'll make an inflation check at the corner deli ;-)
eco data still singing stagger lee to me, but im wrong
I think Florida probably does have a lot of stagflation. Too many retired people cause prices to increase irrespective of the econmy. But in SE Ohio where I just visited, there's no inflation. Zero. Nothing local costs more. Some stuff & services cost less.
cheating HS and college. 50% admit to doing and about another 40% r lying. i went to an extremely competitive public hs (22% went to ivy school in my graduating class and a lot more went to stanford and swarthmore). i was pretty much the biggest dumbass going to dayton. in hs and college my experience was the shame. the more u studied, the better your gpa was, the more u cheated too.
i didnt cheat often, too worried about getting caught. plus i just didnt care as much.
hs was really bad, they wud cheat their butts off to get straight A's but u cant get 1500 on your sat's by cheating, so they werent dumb.
so gasoline isnt more expensive. health care, college education, property and casualty? its also hard to believe food isnt up. the ethanol push as really seemed to inflate the prices on a lot of foods u buy at publix.
florida is in a raging recession. no doubt it. they r advertising houses on the water on cnbc. i saw a sick house for 337k on a deep water canal. it looked bigger and much nicer than the pos i sold on a canal for a tad over 400 in 2004.
there r many many people losing their homes here or r close to. for sales signs rule my nieghborhood.
i did a few shorts off eco data but slutted them already. we shud go down huge and the fact im not short probably makes that a better possibility
oy vey, working on a resume
rofl
krypto give me some gud lies to put on there
LOL
give me some professors i studied under at MIT and Harvard
;-)
heres my resume so far.
almost 200 grateful dead shows.
1 dui.
1 possession of weed charge which shud have been expunged but wasnt
bs in finance from dayton
taken lsd almost 1000 times
love to play sports especially soccer and tennis.
i need 150k to start
LMAO!
lol Mern. My HS was so easy I ran out of classes to take as a junior. I should have taken shop, since I do some of that for a hobby now. Ditto at Harvard - I had to hit that grad school courses as a sophomore. I think cheating existed in the big undergrad college classes - I know a few examples. I don't know if it was common in HS. I never saw much.
But that was 35-40 years ago. It was different then.
I said anything local hasn't gone up. Gasoline & some food. But insurance, labor, other services by people are the same or less. Housing is down from 5 years ago.
uh, Mern, I think you should focus on your vast financial experience.
Also managerial experience running the dog shop - understand people, a business, etc. Sounds like I'm ;-) 'ing, but am not. That was good experience few ever get. :-)
I don't understand why any B-school student would cheat. Grades meant zero in getting a job, when I went (graduated 1981).
Getting ready to go.
Good luck.
Peace.
my hs was within walking distance of swarthmore. most of my hs teachers went to swarthmore. it wasnt till i moved to crackerville that i realized what a "liberal" education i had.
i was taught all these crazy ideas like evolution, reading and calculus. when i dont think i learned much calculus. loved those tests. id get a 24 or something on a 1 problem test. the teacher wud usually say u did almost everything right except on the second line u shud have squared the 2 and thus so were so wrong the 24 is a gift.
i also found out, just a few yrs ago, most of soccer team was on steroids my senior yr. that explained much to me becuase (as i did every summer) i went to the beach the whole summer, came back for preseason 2 a days and i cundt believe how much better everyone was. we were ranked 9th in the country by USA today, but i barely played. some juniors and freshmen just got huge over the summer and lapped me. it was about 5 yrs ago when a team mate told me was just about the only on the team not taking roids and lifting weights.
cheat your way to harvard, duke or stanford. they did both in school and on the field. the pressure from our parents was insane.
i love playing soccer and i know im just about the last guy from the class of 89 who plays competively. much easier in tampa, we have the biggest adult league in the country (i believe), and the weather is yr round conducive except july-nov but we play then too. i love playing the game. i think those guys just loved being popular and getting all the girls (which we did, football players got nada). 5 got full rides and 1 went to harvard witch had no scholarships for sports. (how mad were his parents. he cud have gone to stanford or duke for free but instead 100k to harvard?) most of the guys blew out thier knees in college. was very surprised the harvard guy didnt end up on team america but again i think he blew his knees out a few times, gave professional ball in germany a shot, but his wheels were gone.
we shud have like a 20 yr renuion of that team. most of played together since we were 8 and won several state championships starting at age 9. i think if we scrimmage id finally be better than most of them again, like i used to be until about age 15.
im talking to a gud friend who lives in cincy. he has 2 kids, wife makes over 200. asked him about inflation. "well seems to me, and i pay all the bills, everything goes up, every yr. if that is inflation, then yes i see. i dont know what it is, companys being more creedy or what but it definitely costs more and more to live the same life. i dont know how people down the street making 50 k a yr r making it. i barley save a dime"
and it doesnt live a life of excess except for the yearly trip to vegas and dropping 10k in a black out.
Sounds like a different world (or age) than the small town I grew up in during the 1960s. I guess it was.
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