This may well go down in history as the most miserable week in stock market history. The Dow was off 655 pts from opening not long ago. Here at close, the my non-delayed-reporting trading account says the Dow is still down OVER 600 pts. I remember a George Carlin (GRHS) comedy routine I listened on our old stereo record player (yes, wayyy back then...) where he did a joke-newscast. One of his lines was "The Dow took a little dip today as it dropped 600 points." The audience laughed. Well, when he said that he probably didn't think such a thing would ever happen. Well, it has. It happened today. As I sit here and write this at around 4:10, the Dow is still falling. (Trading information is still coming in, so the actual close value won't be reported for some time, maybe another 1/2 hour or so.) It is going south however, not north. Not even fluctuating. Right now it's down 675 pts! I can't believe it.

On a more amusing note, it seems I have lost my GPS/PDA. I am pretty sure I left it someplace public and someone has walked off with it. So while this is annoying it is not the end of the world and there are other fish in the sea. So I went fishing and decided on a model I wanted that fit my price range and what I am looking for in features. Of course one place I looked was on amazon.com. One of the affiliate sellers had an unusually low price-- but then I saw the shipping cost. Yep, it's that $155 shipping charge that gets ya! So I decided to order from a different source. =)

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