I’ve been a lifelong AA flier, accruing almost 2 million lifetime miles. So, when I got an e-mail from AA a couple of days ago saying they had secured a bunch of options on the Boeing 787-9, I was elated. First, the Dreamliner has…
There were a couple of spots where we didn’t play as good as we could have, but the G-Men played fairly impressive throughout. A safety at the end sealed a convincing win against the 49ers. While the Redskins narrowly avoided losing to the Browns,…
SUBTITLE: Apple ProCare is the nuts! So, my “D” key stopped working on my laptop this morning. This had potential disaster written all over it. I drove to the Apple store near my house, and used my ProCare card to get on the standby…
BOSE is running a promo again for free airline miles: https://www.aadvantagemilesforbose.com/index.jsp 150 miles for watching a video, 450 miles for visiting a BOSE store. Easy miles.
I have two friends who had significant cashes yesterday in poker tournaments. Neither did as well as they wanted, but both achievements are very notable. First, Matt Matros finished 7th at the WPT North American Championship in Niagara Falls. The tournament had 454 entries,…
I really wish the candidates would agree to more debates. The standard 3 really doesn’t cut it for me, and 1 VP debate isn’t enough either. Barack Obama and John McCain met at Hofstra University last night. I think Bob Schieffer did a pretty…
Biggest one-day gain in Dow history. Just when I think I have things figured out, tomorrow will be a completely different day with the bond markets re-opened. On a separate note, here’s a good article on Apple. I’ve been an Apple guy for about…
Thanks to someone reading the blog, I now know that *just* the bond market will be closed today. This means that Treasury bonds won’t be bought or sold, so I have no idea how the market will react to that. For that matter, I…
We saw the worst week of our lives on Wall Street this week. While this should have been scary for me, the sum total of my investments are some sizable IRAs, which I’ve had enough discipline not to check the balance of. After the…
Thanks to David for sending me the link to this really good article. Basically, the reporters contention is that Mccain’s campaign “gets” what the media needs and wants as it covers the campaign. Will this get McCain any votes? Probably not, since I believe…