Maple Leaf Festival Parade

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A rare day

Haven't stepped foot outdoors. That is a rare day. It was raining hard this morning and kept up off and on most of the day so we have spent the day indoors. Yeah, the usual. Butch is playing spider solitaire on his computer. I am finishing up a Swedish weaving project. We got a nap in and watched the DOW drop another 700+ points...you know, ...the usual.

Monkeys anyone?

A friend sent this and I thought it explained things pretty well.

Economics 101

Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each.

The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest, and started catching them. The man bought thousands at $10 and as supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their effort. He further announced that he would now buy at $20. This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again.

Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to their farms. The offer increased to $25 each and the supply of monkeys became so little that it was an effort to even see a monkey, let alone catch it!

The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $50! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now buy on behalf of him. In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers. "Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has collected. I will sell them to you at $35 and when the man returns from the city, you can sell them to him for $50 each."

The villagers rounded up all of their savings and bought all the monkeys. Then they never saw the man nor his assistant again, only monkeys everywhere!

Now you have a better understanding of how the stock market works.

Whatcha doin?

Oh not much...My morning routine is to make coffee then fire up this old computer. First I go to my home page which happens to be iGoogle. I have it set up for various things like the weather in various locations and different news feeds. I have a ToDo list on it, a dictionary and travel direction finder. There are all kinds of gadgets that can be added. If one of the headlines grabs my attention I may click on it but most of the time I pass on the negativity. Even more so of late. Then I check the Atlantic News Telegraph. When you live in an area for twenty years the ties bind at least a little. Then I check the Des Moines Register.
After that it is time to check email. In there will be messages from friends that I answer first unless I do not know the answer and then it may wait till I find out. I subscribe to several newsletters that come on various days. There are a couple of techie ones with computer info, a few Swedish weaving ones and RVTravel.com and I am sure there are ones that are not coming to mind right off.
Of course then it is time to do the puzzle. www.jigzone.com Butch and I have competed on this for years. Sometimes he wins and sometimes I do. It seems to go in streaks. We have signed up for the daily puzzle to arrive in email everyday and we always do the 48 piece classic.
And then I might put something on the blog and that is easier if we have been busy. Right now we are not and thus the ramblings.
After Butch gets up and we have a bite to eat we will get our walk in.