Christmas was fun, but it always goes too fast. I thought I put it back to the old theme for now But I will probably be working on a new theme. I am trying to decide how often I will change the theme. I am also trying to figure out the best way to upgrade and move WordPress installations.
Archives for 2008
Merry Christmas Everyone
Happy Holidays. Just trying out a Holiday theme for a couple of weeks. I have been thinking about changing my theme for a couple of days. I am not sure What I would do with a new theme. Of course this theme is just temporary.
And a Merry New year to all.
Recession, Depression, Stocks and Credit
We’ll it’s upon us. The economic downturn of our generation. As with every economic event there are opportunities.
The first thing we need to remember money is not happiness. Most of the serious happy people I know don’t have much. And most of the ultra-wealthy I know, people that are worth more than 10 million dollars, are pretty miserable. Even a bunch of people I know that are making over $250,000 a year are not happy either.
If you are not happy I have advice for that too. But not here
If you have a lot of money there are so many bargains. I’m not a licensed stock guy or real estate guy so any advise I give on particular stocks or property don’t hold any weight. And I believe if you are going to put any money in Stocks you are looking at 5 to 10 years before you are really going to make your money. None of the options I see for investing money are short term. This is not the time to save. This is the time to spend on investments for the future. Just look at the housing market. Almost everthing is down.
For those of you like me with very little money, do what you can. Invest $50 a month. Learn how to invest. Lots of the those licensed guys have free advice too.
But I do have advice for those of you who can’t pay all their bills, or all the credit cards you maxed out while you thought the stock bubble, housing bubble, oil bubble or what ever other economic bubble you thought would last for ever burst and left you with a bunch of unsecured debt.
Most Creditors are willing to make deals, but you need to know how to get them to deal.
I am intersted in how many people would be willing for some free advise one that?
Thoughtful at this season
Yesterday I was reading the WallStreet Journal and there is a lot of bad news. Companies in trouble, Companies having to layoff workers, companies closing their doors, Greed, Graft and corruptions. People with lots of money CEOs, Presidents, Chairmen and World leaders, all rich powerful and begging, all asking for us to give. They are all talking about stuff, basically worthless stuff
It seems to me they (business and world leaders) lost touch a long time ago and we followed. We need to stop worry about GDP and start thinking about PP, Personal Production. We need to stop worring about how much we have and start worrying about how are we helping our family, our friends and our neighbors. Thisis the type of thing that is going to fix the world economy.
We need to get off the sandy foundations of selfishness and onto the rock solid foundations of selflessness service and Charity.
Stop worring about the economy and start worring about helping your neighbor.
Snow in Austin
Yesterday the weather got crazy in Austin. It started out as a fairly warm day. The humidity level was up and so the 77 degrees farenhit felt like summer. However, by 1:00pm the wind was blowing and the grey cloud cover started moving in. By 5:00PM the wind had become pretty cold and was probably in the 40’s. Then by about 11pm it was snowing.
This morning the streets were dry but there were traces of snow on the roof tops, parked cars and tree branches. I just glad it didn’t get any worse. I am sure the kids are going to be crazy this morning at school. I know they are hoping for more, and believing it’s going to happen.