Good early morning, everyone.
Tom, thanks for the tip on that book. The people who bought it sure seemed to think it helped so what I can I lose for 10 bucks? I know all about the health problems that smoking acuses - I started out my medical career as a respiratory therapist, for cripes sake. As one of my old psych professors used to say "Intellectual insight isn't worth a damn". I made a comittment to quit when my wife drops her weight. It won't be easy but it will be worth it. I'm not getting any younger and those things are starting to take their toll. I buy the cheapest cigarettes I can get (why pay more to get cancer
) and those are now up to $32 a carton and Alabama is still relatively cheap compared to places like the People's Republic of California. I'll save money, save my health, and keep my promise to my wife, so that will give me enough incentive to quit, I think. I'm really lucky never to have much of a taste for alcohol and, with my Meiniere's Disease, one drink and I'm on the floor barfing. If the same thing happened with nicotine, I would have quit real quick.
Ken, I'm really looking forward to your article. The 360 degree view thing they can do with Flash is pretty neat.
Andrew, sounds like you made some good decisions in your youth. Since my layout is in the basement and the only time cats are allowed down there is in cages when we have tornado warnings, they haven't had the chance to destroy anything yet. They'd have the whole thing dismantles in an hour if I let them near it.
Rex, I'm stuck pulling security duty at our church for a big women's conference this coming weekend or I'd be up there to watch the Angels. Saturday looks like perfect flying weather. Sunday looks a bit more iffy.
Karl, sure sounds like you've been through the wringer. I hope you can quit whenever you feel you're comitted to do so.
It's going to be a rough day in the market today. First, Obama essentially fired the CEO of GM. Now the news has leaked out that the auto industry committee had decided that GM and Chrysler haven't done enough to meet their terms and they are only going to fund them for 60 more days to allow them to do a structured bankruptcy, something that should have happened about 30 billion dollars ago. The Dow Jones futures are down about 200 points, which should translate into a 400 to 500 point decline tomorrow. The Asian markets have all finished around 5% down. I'm afraid that all the buyers who have been chasing the tail of the bear market are going to get bit this morning.