Vincent's Journal

11/29/2008 02:41 #46880

Wine Bar
Category: going out

Tonight (e:Heidi) and I stopped by the Wine bar @ the corner of Virginia & Main. We had a pretty good time, althought the place cleared out at about 1:30am. Thanks to (e:jbeatty) for bringing it to our attention

with the initial review & (e:mike) for burning the image into our minds html of what the outside of the place looked like!!!

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I have to admit just from my eyeballing the list, it does have a better selection of wine as opposed to Allen St Hardware. The feature that the guy behind the bar informed us about made me make a note in my future calender. On Sunday every glass is 50% off! Even though (e:jbeatty) initially like the concept that they did NOT have a TV, if I'm going to stop by on a Sunday afternoon, personally I would need a TV to keep me updated on the games. Especially since the time I may actually fit it in it most likely the NFL will be in the middle of playoff season.

jbeatty - 11/29/08 12:44
I was incorrect in my orignal post. I didn't notice the TV because it wasn't turned on. But I have seen it tuned into sports on busy nights.

heidi - 11/29/08 12:14
There is too a TV at Just Vino - it was set on food network with the big platinum blond guy. Whether they'd set it on sport is a different question :-)

I had the French White Flight (who comes up with names like that?) a set of four wines to taste.

11/25/2008 22:45 #46838

Rehab, Party @ the Hard Rock Show
Category: vegas

This is such a weird feeling. I'm watching this show on some channel called TruTV on Direct TV 246., or at least that's where i saw it.

It's freaking "so there" on what actually happens.

The scary part is that I did go to one Rehab Sunday during the summer in August. Now I just hope that I don't show up on some episode ;-/

11/25/2008 00:08 #46826

Dow Wow
Category: finance

It's actually good to see a nice bounce. Even though the Auto Bailout was a bit of a confusing pathetic exercise in money grubbing, Obama got the ball moving his his treasury appointment on Friday & the more money out of thing air coming from the "Bailout Funds" going towards Citigroup.

The breakout of the Long term Support was a "Fakeout" for the time being. Just for future reference if we break though and close for a long time below 7,591, then it's lights out Not the 7,842 which was the low from the "Asian Financial Crisis" in 1998.

All I can say is that I will be glad to take a break from Armageddon for a while. Although I have to stress "Happy Days are not Here Again"

On another note, I'm happy that U.B. has clinched their first bowl game in 50 years! I'd never thought I'd see the day that U.B. was playing in a Bowl Game. Plus, they're the most successful sporting team in the city if you really want to get technical about it.

11/20/2008 16:30 #46776

support fail
Category: fiinance

Pack it in; If you're owning stocks you better be on the 2028 plan. Meaning that if you are thinking of getting your money back until the year 2028!!!

Officially the stock market is screwed for a long, long time.

Get out now before you lose everything....This is an economic collapse, just like the Pan-Asian countries had in 1998 the year that we were last at these levels.

dcoffee - 11/21/08 09:02
I feel bad for people who want to retire. This sucks.

vincent - 11/20/08 19:59
Peter, If anyone had stocks that were purchased over 11 years ago and did not sell them by now they're screwed. The trillions of dollars that were accumulated over the last decade are gone. They are not coming back anytime soon. Look at GE a great "Orphan and Widow" Stock, it hasn't been this low since 1996! Seriously do you remember what you were doing back in 1996? Well your GE stock would be back to where it was + dividends.

metalpeter - 11/20/08 19:12
This should be the sign for those of you who have some cash hidden away that as people start to sell there stocks find some companies you think might have a huge up swing and buy stocks in those and make lots of money maybe in the future.

11/20/2008 13:02 #46772

Auto Rescue Plan Reached
Category: finance

So they did slip a "bailout" for the U.S. Car makers into an energy Bill

To me this is just going to delay the day of reckoning. What they are going to give them still won't make them whole. If you consider their outstanding debt and Pension liabilities this may make the company only say - 35 Billion in the hole instead of -60 Billion. Consider the Market Cap of GM and Ford was 6.14 Billion on 11/17/2008. In the end this is just good money after bad. They are not going to help change the wage structure that puts them at a disadvantage to Honda and Toyota or change people's buying habits. In the end the only way the will keep the current GM Structure of workers making $75 an hour if you include their benefits is to nationalize the companies.

metalpeter - 11/20/08 19:08
You make a good point. I don't know what ones. I do know that in an Add one of Toyota's trucks or maybe all of them are made here I think in Ind. but not sure. I think what these companies don't understand is that they are part of the Global Economy and so is the labor force. What I mean is that is that conditions are different in Japan and Germany then here so that has an effect on how cars are made. I have heard that the ironic things is that in I think it is China the #1 Selling car is ford.

vincent - 11/20/08 18:48
The ironic part about what you said Peter is that those companies do build cars people want to buy right here on U.S. Soil. Yea, the plants are in those "Red" States like Alabama, South Carolina and Texas which are for the majority Non-Union.

metalpeter - 11/20/08 18:42
The thing is that a college education says a lot about a person, more then High School does. it isn't true for everyone but it shows certain things. First thing that comes to mind is that if you live on campus or not with your parents that you are responsible enough to go to class on your own and pay rent, and that means you will show up at work. It also shows a certain level of being able to learn stuff and retain information. With four years schools it shows you are dedicated. If I did hiring I could tell a bunch of other things that it can tell. It is often a help in getting a job.

The Auto insudstry is in trouble because both the workers and the big wig ass holes who fly on Private Jets are both greedy. The bottom line is that that other countries and companies can make cars cheeper and better, so Americans buy them. The thing about the Japanase is that they aren't good at inventing things, we made "The Bomb" first (then blew them up) an American Made the VCR but couldn't figure out what to do with it. The Japanese are good at making things better and changing them. Hence why they make better cars then we do and most of the Hybrid stuff is their's. If An American Car company figured out how to Make a cheeper, Clear fuel and made their cars run on it then they wouldn't be in bad shape. We shall go with say Pure Alcohol. Ford would grow all the Wheat in a 40 story building then own farm land. You own a ford you go to any place that sells ford Cars and Fill up then they sell that at a profit to say gas stations or what ever. The problem is that when you are Rich you don't think "out side the box" so there is no inovation when you are lined up with the gas companies and so is the government.

james - 11/20/08 15:02
I have heard this argument before and I have to wonder why we always blame the workers? As if the overall business model of the company was flawless and would succeed were it not for those parasite workers. Yes, the union should accept that the industry is such that it can no longer support workers wage and benefits entirely. But that is not what is driving the company into the ground.

And Jenks, a college education is entirely useless for most jobs. It is sad that secretaries now need an associates degree. It is sad that seas of douche bags are in MBA programs just so they can do a job that requires only basic communications skills.

Speaking of douche bags. Did you hear about CEO's of the crumbling auto industry flying to DC to beg for bailout money... in a private jet. :::link:::
$75/hr is nice. Such arrogance.

jenks - 11/20/08 14:09
jesus. maybe it's time for people with no more than a high school education to accept that maybe they can't make $75/hour anymore.

I am really not very sympathetic to this cause at all.