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Christmas Eve Eve

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Bryan is back in town (for less than three days, as usual) so we celebrated in a way that is fast becoming a tradition — chili and hot chocolate at his parents’ house. The meal was great, of course, and the dessert consisted of a strange family concoction including chopped Butterfingers, butter, whipped cream, and I’m not even sure what elase. Surprisingly, it was good.

The food fest was followed by a foray back to our fine apartment where M-D, Darren, and to a smaller extent me, introduced Bry to the wonders of Mechassault (or as our lawyer roommate, Ward calls it, Mechattemptedbattery, since it more accurately describes the game), Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and some car racing game.

Today I get to work for half of a day (three hours and forty-five minutes to be exact). I wish I just stayed home…

Also, since the anticipation and temptation was too much for us, we decided to open a few presents that had been sitting underneath the tree. Ah, presents. I got a few DVDs and Denise opened her foot spa thing. We both tried it out. Relaxing.

Becca‘s home, too, and I hear she has some shopping and some Lord of the Rings watching to do.

Blogger Investment Club?

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So I’m seriously considering setting up an investment club for beginning investors. I thought I’d see how many bloggers would be interested in such a thing. If I can find ten bloggers (or friends of bloggers) interested, we’ll set it up.

Basically, after an initial meeting where we determine our investing philosphy, we would “meet” (online, of course, or in person if there are people local to others) once a month to discuss possible changes to the portfolio. At the time of the meeting, the members decide as a group what to invest in and then transfer their money into the account.

So spread the word and post a comment here if you’d be interested. Here are some links where you can get some more info on these types of clubs: Yahoo Finance, This Is Money, and Nat’l Association of Investors Corp.

A Year Later

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“Kids, this-piece-of-paper’s-got-47-words-37-sentences-58-words-we-wanna-know- details-of-the-crime-time-of-the-crime-and-any-other-kind-of-thing-you-gotta-
say-pertaining-to-and-about-the-crime-I-want-to-know-arresting-officer’s-name-
and-any-other-kind-of-thing-you-gotta-say,” and talked for
forty-five minutes and nobody understood a word that he said, but we had
fun filling out the forms and playing with the pencils on the bench there,
and I filled out the massacre with the four part harmony, and wrote it
down there, just like it was, and everything was fine and I put down the
pencil, and I turned over the piece of paper, and there, there on the
other side, in the middle of the other side, away from everything else on
the other side, in parentheses, capital letters, quotated, read the
following words:

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Remember?

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Remember David Duke? (His website is being blocked by my company’s proxy server.) He ran for president of the United States once. He was Grand Wizard of the Klu Klux Klan once. Apparently he’s been traveling around Europe lecturing about saving the white race from Jews and non-Europeans, etc. Apparently he’s been getting indicted on mail fraud and filing a false tax return. Sometimes I despise the fact I completely support First Amendment rights. Also, sometimes I despise politics, but I digress.

So Sleepy

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My boss is en route from London to the United States. Do you think anyone will notice if I slip into his empty office, turn out the light, lie on the floor and take a quick “power nap?” I feel this way every morning. I’m also hungry. Food and sleep are my two masters.

Speaking of my boss, he’s planning on taking a business trip to Japan over Christmas. He hasn’t told his wife yet. I hope she doesn’t read Aaafter Effect. Now I must rest.

Things Learned

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Here are a few things I have learned over the past few days:

In order to avoid headaches and a few hours of extra work, don’t miss any steps while upgrading Movable Type.

I’m eagerly anticipating seeing Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, especially after having seen the special edition of Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Rings on a large screen in a school auditorium compliments of Darren.

I can easily break all personal records in holiday spending now that I’ve actually had income for the past nine months.

Ahhh HBO

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So after the Sopranos season finale last night (which was alright but nothing special), I left the TV tuned to HBO. I watched an interesting documentary on women who make more than $200,000 a year. I’m in the wrong business. You can start calling me The New Dennis Hof.