Blended Living

Mayor bloomberg held a press conference to reveal that the strange odor that has pervaded NYC over the last few years has been solved.  Its a factory in NJ.

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Joe’s Goals I’ve been using daily for over a week and it looks like a keeper.  Remember the milk has soured and I ended up using the simple task list in Gmail more.  That MagicJack phone VOIP gizmo is fun to use, but it won’t be replacing anything anytime soon.  It’s nice to have at gatherings for people to place free domestic calls to their loved ones.  Its pretty transportable and will work at anybody’s home that has broadband and a PC.

It works at work and fills that niche when you want to be able to talk but not make longdistance charges show up on that bill.

Facebook seems like a great social, yet it seems more effort at times than I’m willing to do daily or weekly or whatever.

No coding break throughs but a nice steady learning curve.  It would be nice to be 10 pounds lighter, but running season isn’t far away.  Pitchers and catchers report in a couple weeks, so spring isn’t far behind.

Time to fine tune some goals for the next 7 weeks.  I’m dividing the year into 7 – 7 weeks periods.  The first 7 are almost over.  The second 7 week goals should be fun.

• its cold its warm its snowy then sunny the market is up and down
• we are on a sideways ride
• bad news isn’t so bad, and good news doesn’t particularly linger
• the winter is taking its toll on me
• I can sense the weakness as I shop online for things I don’t need
• and daydream about vacations to far away hot places
• with beaches like the ones in the pictures I was sent in email
• with a kangaroo, yes, a kangaroo that seemed to swim out into the ocean
• and I found myself envious
• a first for me – to be envious of a kangaroo
• which makes me think of the story about the origins of the word
• when the white traveler asked the pygmie and he answered what sounded like ‘kang a roo’
• which meant ‘I don’t know’
• so I’m envious of –I don’t know– what
• which is neither here nor there
• and this stream of thought seems to be mired somewhere between winnie the pooh and Dr Seuss
• yet I haven’t had a drink today
• or maybe that is the problem or the solution…
• just rearranged my 4x trading charts layouts
• and I like it but the first trade is agin’ me
• as I lose 8 cents in my pursuit to reinvent the trader in me
• and am glad 4x allows for microtrades
• as 8 cents is cheap to pay for the lesson I just (re)learned about trading ranges, simple moving averages, and the fractal nature of time and prices
• which makes me think just like a kid on a swing
• its easy to see the turns closer to their apexes as well as take a non-blurry photo of them being so into their present moment
• just that the pendulum of trading has so many participants
• and I only have a handful of kids I’d photograph
• and usually just one at a time
• yet the market reveals itself in moments just like a girl you are enamored with and you just know exactly what to do next.

Sometimes a handwritten note provides that personal touch necessary for that special communication, but if you don’t have the quickest or neatest handwriting it can get tedious.  What if you could create a font for the computer that is your handwriting?

This site allows you to download a PDF template, you fill it out with your handwriting, scan it, send it back to them and they create a truetype font – for free.

I haven’t finished this yet, but will post more details as we get something done.

There was a time when you left something precious on the subway or bus and you pretty much kissed it good-bye.  The MTA has been working to improve this process, using their web presence.   Assuming it was turned in, you can fill in a web form and try to get it back.

Now, if my bankcard would work at most stations when I really need to buy a metrocard… I’d be a happy camper.

In New Jersey. Preliminary 2.9 on the richter scale. 50 miles west of Newark.