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11/29/2008 23:01 #46885

100 K
Category: blogs
Wow, currently I have about 40 more views to go until I hit 100,000 views. I'd never thought I'd ever get any where near that or anyone would find my blog interesting enough to read though the content. It's not like I'm a chick blogging about my love life, so there's pretty much zero readership for the "juicy" content reasons. But some how or another people come across thing thing for whatever reasons and for that I'm 100K reasons grateful.

The only thing that I could come up with that would draw Google hits would be my financial/trading ranting and raving.

So with 100K views in 1007 days of this (e:strip) blog that's about 99.3 views per day. Not bad where I come from I must say. For my livejournal I may get that a quarter and not in a day, that's for sure. It just goes to show what great work (e:paul) does with this site.
paul - 11/30/08 11:03
Thanks Vincent - its nice to be appreciated and congrats on 100k views. It really is the google bots that eat the site up and then people get here by the most random searches.

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!!! .

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.