http://new.music.yahoo.com/carole-king/tracks/first-day-in-august--650517
On the first day in August
I want to wake up by your side
After sleeping with you
on the last night in July
In the morning
We'll catch the sun rising
And we'll chase it from the mountains
to the bottom of the sea
When the day is over
ANd the night air comes to chill us
You'll build a fire
And we'll watch the flames dancing
You'll fall asleep
With your arm around my shoulder
And nothing will come between us
On the first night In August
The first day In August
I think I posted a link to this song last summer as well.
Takes me back to the Summer of '81.
How quickly this life fades. Not long at all before we're all sitting by the window watching shadows lengthen and reminiscing.
My siblings were all in town last weekend to celebrate my Mom's eightieth. Dinner in Burlingame. Afterwards, a slide show at my parents' home- which included prints from the fifties and sixties. Wilkinsburg. Palo Alto. Pittsburgh. Atherton.
Personally, the passage of time doesn't sadden me as much as it deepens my faith in an afterlife- one that allows unlimited time to live (or relive) any of infinite possible threads. If I were doing time in solitary confinement, there would be a ton of 'situations' worse in the 'real world.' In fact, faced with a life sentence, I would opt for solitary. What better place to read, write, and meditate?
You are a real intellectual. What's your Myer's-Brigg profile? I am an INFP. That is an introverted,intuitive,feeling type...not judgmental but more of a perceptive type.
ReplyDeleteI had an old link to a site for this but just discovered it is broken. You, 2nd, may not have ever taken the exam unless you were with a big corporation or for some other reasons. It's a psychological thingy.
My undergraduate degree was in Psychology, so I'm familiar with the test. Can't recall taking the exam (maybe half-heartedly as a class exercise), but INFP would certainly fit me as well.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of solitary confinement, I've often driven past farms and ranches in isolated areas of Northern California that appeal to me as places to while away a few months in solitude.
The pace of life in the twentieth/twenty-first century, combined with an unending stream of distractions in the form of television, radio and now the Internet- I think writers and musicians in the nineteenth century had major advantages in terms of time, and certainly the 'peace and quiet' required to think things through.
Even 'life' in solitary wouldn't do it for me. I really think I would pretty much need eternity. There needs to be no 'hurry' attached to any thought/string of thoughts or experience to fully understand/absorb the thought or the experience.
ReplyDeleteWe only experience 'fleeting' thoughts or images in this life- sometimes vicariously through a film or book. Can you imagine the emotional/intellectual 'depth' possible with exploring a single experience from an infinite number of perspectives? That's probably what 'Eternity' is for.
Yep, 2nd is definitely a thinker.
ReplyDeleteDaily Bell: You've been successful for a very long time – and you may be, indeed, the oldest active investment writer and consultant around. How has the world changed in your opinion?
Harry Schultz: It's gotten unpleasant morally, as everyone now realizes – but it's too late for the wakeup call. It's gotten speedier, but not better because of speed. There is scant benefit to speed, whether by car, plane, email or market facilities. Speed has forced people to act before they can think things through. Often speed means you don't weigh the risk/reward factors – as there doesn't seem to be time for it. High-tech makes things easier in many ways, but causes more stress, partly because it keeps breaking down. You see this with computer glitches, crashes and viruses. Also, high-tech goads you into making fast decisions.
Daily Bell: Has the Internet made a difference in terms of information flow?
Harry Schultz: Yes, some good and some bad. The overload of information makes it hard work to sort the wheat from the chaff. There is more to read than you can cope with, so you need great discipline. Not everyone is good at discipline. Oddly your cultural background affects this. Germans are good at discipline. Latins are less interested in it. Weather also plays a role in this, by the way. The thinkers, the book writers, are mostly from cool climate countries. Almost nobody writes books in Africa. It's too hot.
Train
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xf-Lesrkuc&feature=avmsc2
Drops of Jupiter
I'm guessing Sharkie would disagree, but I really think Train gets a bad rap from the purists. I enjoy their music.
ReplyDeleteT3D- Do you have the link to the interview. I've asked those questions here many times. ie, if some idiot like me can short a stock with day trading power 250% of cash is crazy. Like 3X ETF's, it has to make a difference.
ReplyDeleteJust returned from a great party with our friends from Sweden that visit every year. It's strange/interesting/wonderful how much value our kids place on these relationships. I think it the sense of "family" the Swedes put out.
ReplyDeleteMark no, but if you goog daily bell and harry Schultz it may come up.
ReplyDeleteHere are the other parts I copied to word.
Daily Bell: Has investing changed?
Harry Schultz: In some respects, the more things change the more they remain the same – which applies mainly to our emotions. And emotions are what make you or break you in markets. You must control them, be able to switch from long to short in a flash, without 'caring' whether your investment has changed direction. I can switch from long gold to short gold in a flash, without emotion. It wasn't always so. You need to learn emotional control. You can be a believer in the gold standard, as I am, but still sell it short during a gold market correction. It's the same with every market.
Daily Bell: Is there manipulation in the markets – especially the gold and silver markets?
Harry Schultz: Of course! There is no free market anywhere. Every commodity and all markets are manipulated, sometimes by government, often by mega corporations, or small but strong groups. Cheating comes easily to mankind. The closest thing we have to a free market is the bond market-because it is so big it's almost impossible to control.
Daily Bell: Where are the best countries to live? And why?
Harry Schultz: I've written on this subject for years, having lived in 17 of them. The "best" must be different for each of us. Much depends on your ancestry, your genes. We can only speak of the surface aspects and in generalities. Loosely speaking, the best countries are where literacy is high – Northern Europe, the UK, Ireland, Canada and South Australia. But there are exceptions to that.
Daily Bell: What are the best investments for the next few years?
Harry Schultz: I'm not going to give my views on that here. I would probably be wrong anyway, as the world is changing so fast it's not as predicable as it was 10-20 yrs ago.
Daily Bell: Where is gold going? Silver?
Harry Schultz: Much higher. Sky is the limit for gold. Governments are losing control of gold. They cheat, steal, lie, maneuver ... but gold will beat them and is already doing so, in stages.
Daily Bell: Will the world come out of the current financial crisis?
Harry Schultz: As a physical planet, yes. There is no global warming by the way. That was and is a con by the insiders, to gain more land control. Will society come out of the crisis? Yes, but not for at least seven years. People's attitudes will change 180 degrees as we go through very bad economic times and social upheaval.
Daily Bell: Will the EU survive?
Harry Schultz: Perhaps. Euro nations reverting to their pre-Euro currency days is certainly feasible. So is a new, smaller euro zone. I liked Europe when each nation controlled its interest rates & money supply. That was freedom. The euro zone was malformed by former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl who didn't understand money or markets. He only understood politics. The euro is elitist.
Daily Bell: Will we see a currency region of America, Canada and Mexico?
Harry Schultz: Odds don't favor it, but the criminal elements of the insiders will keep trying. It is an idiotic idea but great for the elite.
Daily Bell: What are some books and articles of yours that you would recommend to readers?
Harry Schultz: Most are out of print, although second-hand book-stores may have some. Bear market investment strategies is the only one still in print, I think – published by John Wiley & Sons.
Daily Bell: Thank you for your time and your free-market trailblazing.
Harry Schultz: You seem a dedicated, freedom-loving group. Good luck. We need a younger generation to carry the torch now.
T3D- Thanks. I'll snoop around.
ReplyDeleteCheapy- Can you give me a quick run down on how the racing you do works? We have Sears Point here, and a dirt tack in Petaluma. I can here then racing now. It interests me. Best I've ever done is 0-60 in 3.9 seconds and a top speed of 160. Scared the crap out of me. I was afraid a cow would walk on one of the back roads I take.
ReplyDelete"There is no global warming by the way. That was and is a con by the insiders, to gain more land control."
ReplyDeleteHarry lost me on that one but of course we may not know for a long time. Not a further topic for trading discussion on this blog, of course, now that I have offered my 2 cents. LOL.
Mark,
ReplyDeleteThat is a fantastic pic of your kicker. My oldest granddaughter, recently 11, does not kick like that and is more interested in setting up her teammates, usually. Couple years ago though she scored 4 goals on a soggy field. Maybe a mudder: "a race horse that performs especially well on a wet, muddy track". Not a common term.
She is a blond just as yours.
Harry Schultz is my kind of guy.
ReplyDeleteillini- Then your oldest granddaughter really gets it. Good for her. As one moves up the ranks, the pass that set's up the goal is more important than the goal itself. Bravo little illini!!
ReplyDeleteAre you still in TBT?
His mother was a muda…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0umYspP3_4
Used to spend too much time at the track.
Hmmmm... Catching up on CNN news. Looks like Watters/Rangel are toast. Pelosi, "It's time we drain the swamp".
ReplyDeleteI'm still trying to understand why I want an open transom and bulb keel on a sailboat.
ReplyDeleteCheapy ever find out?
e5, care to explain?
Is this the link to the interview w/ Harry Schultz...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.thedailybell.com/1204/Harry-Schultz-on-the-Power-Elite-Free-Markets-the-Internet-and-Why-Gold-Is-Going-Much-Higher.html
Mark,
ReplyDeleteI bought TBT on Jun 28 at 36.81 thinking it was way low. Wrong! Two days later I was stopped out at 35.52. Since then it was up near 38 on two swings and closed Friday @ 35.85.
The problem is that these 2x and 3x ETF's are too volatile for me.
An open transom bails water instantly if for some reason your boat becomes swamped, very handy!
ReplyDeleteConcerning the bulb keel, I don't know much about sailbotes and what type of counterweights are best (bulb/swing/canting), best have an experienced/professional describe the various attributes.
YRCW - Nice rally for the month of June considering the company is totally bankrupt according to the way I interpret their balance sheet.
ReplyDeleteThanks CP!
ReplyDeleteHi Everybody,
ReplyDeleteI'm planning to buy Rubicon RBY.
Happy August 1!
illini said...
ReplyDeleteYou have the "golden handshake". I have the "Uncle Sam handshake". Interesting juxtaposition. I believe you win bigger but may be more dependent on Mr Market.
Naaaaaa, the retirement I have coming was from tons of hard work, with some dumb luck and good timing, none of it handed out by any company at all. I still have 10 or 12 years before I can get the social security and medicare I paid into at double rates, and no job or income to carry me till then. The glitter in it was only because I got lucky and bet against the counterfeiter's running the nation, and I think it will eventually prove a very wise bet at that.
On the subject of boats, I have yet to see one with an open transom and bulb keel pop up in my search. Not that they don't exist, but maybe are just generally out of the price range I'm trying to squeeze under.
See you guys in a few. Off to a dinner for my parents 50th wedding anniversary.
ReplyDeleteChicken,
ReplyDeleteThat helicopter is a CH-47 Chinook made by the Vertol Division of Boeing outside of Philly. I worked on the airworthiness qualification of the C model for the Army way back in the late sixties, later on the D model. There is a later model now but that original airframe design goes back to the late 50's! It's a great rotary wing aircraft but my favorite is the Black Hawk UH-60 utility helicopter (United Technologies, Sikorsky Div). I worked with it from the beginning about 1970. Replacement for the Huey. I am going to look for a picture.
illini,
ReplyDeleteYep, I should pay more attention to which whirly-birds they're flying past here but something's changed in the schedule since the presidential election and they rarely fly past here now for some reason... Budget cuts?
Anyway, I'm expecting to see Bernanke whizzing past in one of those big-boys loaded to the gills any day now...
ReplyDeleteTelestar3d said...
ReplyDeleteI'm still trying to understand why I want an open transom and bulb keel on a sailboat.
re t/ hi-tech sail boats pragmatic bob [PB] listed: many of those that might be tied up to his deep water floating dock, are all over 10yro. they also are light displacement in design and need a deep keel to balance all side push forces ,awa, wedging those forcees into forward thrust. they all appeared to have an open transom
the draft, depth in t/ water can be lessen by adding hydro dynamic shaped lead weight; thusly, called a bulb.
in an america cup race about 10yr ago. aussies innovated bulb into bilateral lifting wing shapes.
the j class was favored for well heeleed inter-club racing,now, used around $17k, which is a fantastic price.
PB said he probably would single hand this 30'+ boat, usually crewed by 4-5.
hands.
ok w/ automatic self steering, all control lines coming into t/ cockpit including reefing & furling it can be done. built in very heavy keel prevents capsize ie boat turned upside down. chicken was correct in auto dump of unwanted water coming aboard, an unexpected surge of wind could still knock t/ mast down to water level .pb 's lifeline will keep him with the vessel as it rights itself.
pb has 10- 15 thrill years left, single handers start scaling down toward a row boat after 60.
he wrote
On the subject of boats, I have yet to see one with an open transom and bulb keel pop up in my search. might i offer a suggestion that you wiki or google funny sounding terms. you've got t/riht idea no club, marina or dockage fees, once in a while you'll have hauling fees to clean and paint t/ bottom. taxes should be real low.
sounds like a sail school and power squadron beginner navigation courses might also be a good investments before you take on t/responsibity of control.
maybe it would be wise to start off w/ a 21' keel boat.
GL
e5
Ben might need a Chinook, the biggest lifter in the inventory. There was once one bigger but it faded long ago.
ReplyDeleteAs I recall, you live in Washington State (or is that Craig). If so, those copters are coming out of Ft. Lewis. Hope they don't disturb the chickens!
New pic is latest BH, M model. From Sikorsky website.
I've been using search criteria of length, age and price, then limit to PHRF of about 120 and under, and max draft of 6 ft or less. I then save candidates to a bookmark list. I went thru the list when you made the comments initially, and there were none that I know of with a bulb keel (maybe it wasn't mentioned or pictured), and only 2 with open transoms. Some do have roller furlers, and for those that don't it can be added for $4000 or less, I'd expect. Almost none have electric winches, and many have some sort of autopilot. I do agree that a bulb keel would allow more counterweight without the keel getting too deep for Caribbean water ease of use, and also agree that I probably only have 10 or 15 years of good sailing left in me, and that's a lot of why I'm looking to do it soon, and not wanting to invest a huge sum in a new boat.
ReplyDeleteI've been sailing over 45 years now, owning or crewing on boats up to 36 ft, and don't pretend to know everything, but would get bored with repeating beginner sailing classes, I'm sure. I have to admit I've never sailed a boat with a bulb keel or open transom, and never been knocked down in anything bigger than a Hobie 17 or Laser II. Usually I'd reef the main or reduce to a smaller jib if I knew heavy weather was coming that I couldn't avoid, but I would imagine if I got into weather I couldn't handle sailing in, I'd probable heave to and wait it out. Its not been very often that I've been caught out in bad weather, and its something I avoid as much as possible, LOL.
I'm not sure what funny sounding terms you were suggesting I google. It wasn't a problem of knowing what they meant or were, just a problem of not seeing boats meeting my search criteria that had both, probably because the boats within the price range are 20 yr old boats.