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777 DOES NOT MEAN A WINNER TODAY

Whenever I have been confronted with a bad day on Wall Street and the talking heads in the newsrooms are yelling at one another in exaggerated squeaky voices, I have gone to the graph of the Dow that begins in 1930 for perspective.

Yes I lost some money today, if I was going to sell something, but since I am not a seller when everyone is screaming that the sky is falling then perhaps I will be all right in the longer view.

The other perspective to take is when everyone is rushing past you saying, "Run, run, as fast as you can," perhaps you would do better to run toward them so that you get through the bad stuff faster. Be a buyer if you can. When stocks get hit hard by fear, rather than fundamentals, there are always some undervalued company that will reap rewards during a rebound.

I am not saying that I have not been concerned, only that when the stock market is falling precipitously that is probably not the best time to sell. What if you do sell, then what do you do next?

What is especially interesting is that this current condition is also tied to what Congress may or may not do. Double yikes! Since when has the making of political sausage been a healthy thing to watch. Not only are we getting national indigestion, we may not be able to eat anything after witnessing this scene. Personally, I could use a good diet, but I would rather not be forced into it by our national leaders during an election year. Oh, this could go on, and on, and on..........

Go to Scotland - Billy Connolly

Golf

Just too good to not share. If you have never seen this get some Kleenex and heart attack meds handy.

Florence - Rods N Rhodies Event

We had an Old Town Florence gathering of Hot Rods this last weekend and, although I am not a great fan of 500 H.P. vehicles, I do like to see the precise restoration work and remnants of old technologies.

At the end of the first day of the show the cars all fire up and cruise back and forth on Bay Street for about an hour, adding to both greenhouse gasses and the trade deficit, aka imported oil. This is great fun and the spectators hoot and yell especially at the convertibles because they can actually hear comments from the crowd over the exhaust noise from these monster engines.

Toward the end of the cruise I decided to head home and when I was getting the DeLorean out of the parking lot next to Bay Street a friend was retrieving a jacket from her car (Connie) and we decided to sneak into the lineup of the cruise. We made it down the street for 1/2 lap but were kicked out at the turn around point and I had to take alleys back to drop Connie back at the Grape Leaf. The Grape Leaf, as the name implies, has something to do with grape juice, but that is another story. It is a great spot from which to enjoy the festivities of Old Town.

This is a great weekend of fun and I spent nearly all of it hanging out and walking the street, revisiting the best examples........... here are just a few pics:

I have to kill some time while I am roasting my bi-weekly coffee supply and since I know many people with both dogs and excess computer paraphernalia I thought I would spend some time searching for uses of old discs.

This is by far the best example of what to do with your old data discs, and all of those old programs from a decade ago hiding in a box in your closet. ( I know there are others aside from me that have saved the 1996 version of a game they will never play again)

Anyway, the dog on Must Heart Dogs looks like a perfect candidate for this sort of fun - just a goofy looking very distant ancestor of the wolf.