Update
Geez, haven't posted anything in over a week, so here's a huge freaking updatethingie.
Lots of thunderstorms this past week (I unplug my computer just to be on the safe side), and my SO and I have been driving a sick friend to work/doctor/etc the past couple weeks, so I haven't been online much.
Investments are mixed. Sirius (SIRI) and DJ Wilshire REIT (RWR) have been sucking, as have the Janus Contrarian Fund (JSVAX) and the Janus High Yield Fund (JAHYX), but Exxon Mobile (XOM), the Prudent Bear Fund (BEARX, heehee) and the Excelsior Energy & Natural Resources Fund (UMESX) are doing gangbusters. So far after a week and a half, I'm ahead by $120. In order to match what I could get at a bank, I need to make at least $50 a week. I still have a good chunk of money to move into some sort of vehicle, probably more mutual funds. Lots of prospectuses (prospectii?) to read.
My SO lost his job last week. The company he was working for has been dropping people like flies. Apparently they lost their biggest client. He was feeling really depressed, then I reminded him he could apply for unemployment and he started feeling better.
Monday we went to a job faire just outside Offut AFB. Both of us ran out of resumes. I still need to follow up and send electronic copies to all the addressed on the business cards I picked up. One of the companies there was a construction firm. They weren't hiring for any IT positions, as they don't feel they need any in-house IT, but that's what my last employer thought before they met me. ;)
OfficeMax had 2 gig SanDisk Cruzer Micro USB flash drives on sale for $25, so I picked one up. Then I discovered that RadioShack had the 4 gig version on sale for $60. My old 2 gig flash drive was nearly full, 4 gigs will really be helpful. (I have Puppy Linux, the entire PortableApps suite, Office 2003 Enterprise + SP2 and a ton of other useful utilities on it, basically an entire software toolkit)
Also picked up a weather radio from RadioShack. It has come in handy already (see below).
Chocolate-covered Ginger Altoids are strange.
Saw Meet the Robinsons today. Much better than I expected. I thought it was going to suck, but it was actually pretty darn good. You just have to forget everything you know about temporal mechanics.
When we came out of the theater, it was pouring rain, there was a wee bit of hail, and there were lightning strikes less than a mile away. Fortunately it let up pretty quickly and I didn't get too wet. When I got home, I noticed my new weather radio was displaying something about a tornado watch. It didn't go any farther than a watch though, at least in this county.
Lots of thunderstorms this past week (I unplug my computer just to be on the safe side), and my SO and I have been driving a sick friend to work/doctor/etc the past couple weeks, so I haven't been online much.
Investments are mixed. Sirius (SIRI) and DJ Wilshire REIT (RWR) have been sucking, as have the Janus Contrarian Fund (JSVAX) and the Janus High Yield Fund (JAHYX), but Exxon Mobile (XOM), the Prudent Bear Fund (BEARX, heehee) and the Excelsior Energy & Natural Resources Fund (UMESX) are doing gangbusters. So far after a week and a half, I'm ahead by $120. In order to match what I could get at a bank, I need to make at least $50 a week. I still have a good chunk of money to move into some sort of vehicle, probably more mutual funds. Lots of prospectuses (prospectii?) to read.
My SO lost his job last week. The company he was working for has been dropping people like flies. Apparently they lost their biggest client. He was feeling really depressed, then I reminded him he could apply for unemployment and he started feeling better.
Monday we went to a job faire just outside Offut AFB. Both of us ran out of resumes. I still need to follow up and send electronic copies to all the addressed on the business cards I picked up. One of the companies there was a construction firm. They weren't hiring for any IT positions, as they don't feel they need any in-house IT, but that's what my last employer thought before they met me. ;)
OfficeMax had 2 gig SanDisk Cruzer Micro USB flash drives on sale for $25, so I picked one up. Then I discovered that RadioShack had the 4 gig version on sale for $60. My old 2 gig flash drive was nearly full, 4 gigs will really be helpful. (I have Puppy Linux, the entire PortableApps suite, Office 2003 Enterprise + SP2 and a ton of other useful utilities on it, basically an entire software toolkit)
Also picked up a weather radio from RadioShack. It has come in handy already (see below).
Chocolate-covered Ginger Altoids are strange.
Saw Meet the Robinsons today. Much better than I expected. I thought it was going to suck, but it was actually pretty darn good. You just have to forget everything you know about temporal mechanics.
When we came out of the theater, it was pouring rain, there was a wee bit of hail, and there were lightning strikes less than a mile away. Fortunately it let up pretty quickly and I didn't get too wet. When I got home, I noticed my new weather radio was displaying something about a tornado watch. It didn't go any farther than a watch though, at least in this county.