Slow Response Texts 

If you’ve texted me before you know that I don’t respond to texts instantaneously as some people do.  This screenshot shows a text at 6:25 on 9/3 that clearly asks the question, “something I should look into?”  Notice I completely ignored it.

I started writing that it’s not because I purposely do it, and I really don’t purposely not respond, but then I thought about it further and subliminally it is because I don’t know what to write.  The answer to the question is obviously yes because I wouldn’t have brought it up.  If I answer yes though then I have to explain why and at that moment of time I wasn’t into it and just didn’t respond.

I ended up giving a further explanation on 9/8.

Dodgy Details

This is a conversation with my sister when we were talking about getting together on a Saturday night.  In my mind I’m telling her where I’m going to be with the idea that she could come if she wanted to.  The next day she tells me, “your texts don’t even say if I’m invited”.  She’s right.  I completely understand not knowing whether she’s invited where I’m under the belief she knows I have no problem if she ever wants to hang.

Being an Ass

One reason I’m showing this is because someone took a picture of their screen and sent it to me.  In the age of screenshots, I think this is hysterical.  The other is because I want nothing else to say that there is no way in hell I’d play Owen Daniels.  I held my tongue but it took all my will power not to say, are you kidding me?  One of my faults is believing that I know it all and this is both good and bad.  It’s tough to know when to say to someone that there is no way they can be right and when to say they might be on to something.

I thought this was cool because I’d never before seen how a mural gets painted.  You can see the grid over the wall and then they paint each individual square.  I was told that this was going to take 2 months.  Maybe I’ll post updates each day as I walk by.

Long weekends are a bit of a conundrum for me. I spend my time working and while I’m working I can’t stop wishing that I could just stop working and enjoy life. Then I get time to not work, and I end up trying to figure out how to spend it. So, how did I spend it?

On Thursday I went to Atlantic City to gamble which seemed like a great idea, however, my enthusiasm pre AC did not hold up post AC. Without going into details, I got absolutely rocked. In the 4 different games I tried, I don’t think I was up at ANY point. I’ve done AC so many times that I know this can happen but it’s just a horrible feeling. So this was the way I started the extended vacation.

There’s not much to note other than I went bowling a few times and just sort of killed time which left me to last night where I wasn’t feeling tip top and decided to call it a night. I woke up at 6 this morning, snapped this picture which I am using as symbolism for a fresh start.

I’m quoting Vince Lombardi here:
It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.

I was eating at PJ’s in Blue Bell last night with the Wads and the Weens when a discussion came up about half price wings vs a hot waitress.

We were expecting half price wings but mixed up the days (Tuesday instead of Wednesday) so we were a bit disappointed.  The waitress said they are “swamped” on half price wing nights and it was relatively open that evening which brought about this question I will pose.

Would you rather eat at a restaurant where all the wait staff looks like sloth from the Goonies and get half priced food or would you rather pay full price and get served by a good looking staff in a nice environment?

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The phrase close but no cigar comes from a time period when cigars were handed out as prizes for carnival games.  So when you lost it was “close, but no cigar”.  What.  The.  Fuck.  Anyway, this is going to be a shit entry but I wanted to get a post out there.

Close but no cigar can be used to describe my weekend because I had two instances where I was money but didn’t quite get there.  The first was the draft kings golf tournment where I put 5 guys through the cut but ultimately missed cashing by 11 spots with 9500 entries.  Goddamn Jonas Blixt.

The 2nd was a poker tournament that had about 115 players and I ended up getting 15th for a min cash of $34 dollars.  I played well and wasn’t called all-in except 2 times in the tourney (I had a boat once and the other was my going out hand where my 10-9 couldn’t beat 2 other pre-flop callers when I was short).  This is great and all but I lost $12 on a trifecta bet and had at least 5 beers which put me down for the day.

I also went bowling on Sunday where I put a 170 something game but wasn’t too great at picking up spares.  I also had my first draft which I was pretty pleased with.  I’ll share results after tonight’s.

So if you have any money in the market you are sweating right now. I’ve been through this wild volatility before and you want to sell as soon as shit hits the fan which is definitely happening. The market opened down 1,000 points today and is still down between 300-500 points (which is still a huge drop). Time to sell?

As you can see with this email I sent on Thursday, I sensed this was coming.

I actually did purchased TVIX at 6.86 and sold it Friday a little above 8. Little did I know it would shoot above 15 today. The market is hard.

I should also note that if you are a blog reader and took my advice on buying February Puts on TAXI, you would have made over 100%.

Now on to more important notes because I’m a perenial loser in investing in the market which is why I have only about 10% of my portfolio in it. I own some some stocks that lose money but I don’t expose myself to the shit that we are going through right now. Why?

When losing money starts to affect your emotional well being, you have to say to yourself, “is it really worth it?” For me it’s not. I’ve gone through ups and downs and I prefer being straight. Sure the market will probably swing back from this down run but who knows when that could happen? It could take a year. Then you start saying, well it can’t go down any more and you start purchasing at these lower prices but it still goes down. I’ll be on the sidelines.

Every so often I’ll get about 5 smaller ideas that don’t round themselves out to full posts so I’ll just combine them into a simple, bullet point list of splat.

• I had some back and forth with Sam on Friday night that deserves some clarification.  I was hanging with Brookes and Laura when Sam told me he was going to Howl at the Moon.  I was there on Wednesday and basically blacked out and had no intention of going.  Plus the line to that place gets absurd at 11pm and the idea of sitting through that, mostly sober, to get into a place with mostly drunk people wasn’t appealing.  At 12:30 or so, Sam gave my phone a call, I was just about ready for bed and didn’t pick up.  A 2nd phone call from a member of his group called and I didn’t pick that up either.  It’s nothing personal, I just didn’t want to hear drunk ramblings of how I should be out and about.  This is old man shit but I actually wanted to wake up in the morning before noon and not feel like a piece of shit.  Funny how that changes as you get older.
• Drinking Naked Juice makes you take a shit.  I don’t eat enough fruits and vegetables so I see these juices at Wawa for 2 for $5 and think “why not”.  My instinct is that if they are expensive, they must be good for you.  After drinking a few, I’m pretty sure they are so high in nutrients that they are too much and then overload your system and it makes you take a shit.  They aren’t normal shits either. It’s like one minute your enjoying the game and next minute you have to run to bathroom.
• Sam made a comment that said “good post” on my Chris Farley post.  I always like a comment but I need a little more (claps to actually commenting though)  Here are my actual thoughts on that post.  I essentially combined as many facts and comments about Chris Farley as I could in one post.  I highlighted videos that were on point and gave insight into what his life was like.  The writing wasn’t beating around the bush and presented info straight up.  I know I’m not the best writer but if I had an editor to improve my writing, that was as good as or better than 95% of the posts that grace the internet.  Most likely 21 people will read it.  This is what makes is difficult to get better feedback.