Cramer: Wachovia Just Ran Out of Time - TheStreet.com

Cramer: Wachovia Just Ran Out of Time - TheStreet.com: "Wachovia is dead"

Wow, things are happening fast. What a weekend...

Just recently Bob Steele was on Cramers show and broke down how strong Wachovia was... I guess strong is $1 per share. Whats left will be very small compared to what it was. Waiting to see how this impacts my projects since they span both parts, but I'm guessing I may no longer be needed.

Is Gas Supply & Demand?

Two points recently make me really feel that gas at the pump is a futures market and not based on supply and demand.

Today I heard rumors of stations running out of gas and the pumps being set fill slowly so people will get frustrated.  So on the way home I stopped to check it out.  The first station was completely out of gas.  The next two only had regular, so I filled up (I'm glad my cars don't require high octane).    The funny part was, even though they were running short, the price dropped almost 20 cents from the last time I filled up.  My wife had the same experience at Costco earlier this week, they were completely out and went next door to sheets who had only regular.  I also got heard similar stories from friends and coworkers in other parts of NC.

The second thing is the margin that's normally claimed is pennies.  Well the last spike hit and the state started going after several of the stations that were gouging their prices.  One station offered a day of gas at cost - 3.38.... this one normally is 3.79+  That's not tons, but its more than a few pennies.

Since I used to be close to the computer hardware business, this margin isn't so bad for a commodity.  

It was real interesting that the local news didn't mention anything about stations running out of gas tonight.  I wonder when the real crisis will hit?

Blogger Details and Download - Internet Explorer Gallery

Blogger Details and Download - Internet Explorer Gallery

OK, I might be behind the times, but I'm playing w/ IE8 looking at their accelorators. Just trying this one out to see if it might help me blog more of the places I go.

So what's this look like, will it be a useful feature for IE? I havent looked yet, does anyone know if there's an equivalent for Firefox or Safari?

We dragged our feet getting Eric's room cleaned out and painted, but its done!  Katie's been dying to move in and has started to but still has a bunch of stuff in her old room w/ her sister.

Eric, if this is too bright, a bucket of paint is cheap.

Nighmares

Oh the nighmares of little ones. Last night my youngest had a bad dream and came in to wake us up. Apparently there was a witch party and they were doing all sorts of scarry things. This was a little more reasonable than the last nightmare she had. Appareantly she was dreaming about waffle day, we ran out of syrup and she didn't get any. What a nightmare!

It would be nice to go back and have that as my biggest issue of the day.

Swimming in NC's Triad

It's been a long time, and many pounds ago, but I used to be a swimmer.  I'm finally trying to get active again, I'm serious this time.  Anyway, I've been biking, walking, running and lifting weights.  So, I decided to look into swimming again. 

This area make getting into shape hard.  There are very few public facilities offering anything for adults, other than pickup basketball.  I live in Guilford county and work in Forsyth  county, there are 2 public indoor swimming pools between the two!  they are both at high schools in Greensboro.  Public lap swim is either 5pm-9pm or 7pm-9pm depending on the pool.  No mornings, noon... No open family swim time...   I went to the pool tonight for 1 hour and I was the only one there!

This is very weird, I grew up in FL and there was always times to go to the pool and always people in it.  I moved to Oregon, lap swim starting at 5am and the pool stay open with programs all day until 9 or 10 pm.  I've traveled all over the country and found public pools in Chicago and Milwaukee full on winter evening...  Even other areas of NC the pools are at least used some.

Swimming is very inaccessible here.  The YMCA's have the best facilities and many swim teams rent space from them or have their own private pools.  There are summer pools for recreational swimming, but again most are private.  Outdoor public pools get great attendance, but plans for new indoor pools are driven by local swim teams competing for space. 

These designs meet their needs for lap swimming but ignore providing recreational facilities that draw large crowds in the summers - slides, tubes, fountains, shallow areas for little ones....  I've been in the upper mid-west and the public pools include all of this while having lap swimming and competitive swimming space - and they are packed all winter long.

I would be nice if the area could get together and build many smaller pools where the community would feel welcome to use them in many ways all year long... hopefully its not a pipe dream.

Eric's off to Turkey

Eric left for Turkey yesterday morning. A big day for the family. We will all miss him, except Katie who plans to move into his room while he's gone.

Follow Eric's adventures at http://fridturky.blogspot.com/