Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Wrong Way

Ever found yourself going the Wrong Way?

Here's how to get to the Wright Way:

http://maps.google.com/
Wrong Way to Wright Way

Driving directions to Wright Way, NY 12059
39.5 mi – about 1 hour 23 mins
Wrong Way, Averill Park, New York 12018
1. Head northeast on Wrong Way toward County Rte-43/Oak Hill Rd 0.1 mi
2. Turn left at County Rte-43/Oak Hill Rd 0.2 mi
3. Slight left at County Rte-40/Plank Rd 2.5 mi
4. Turn left at NY-351 3.7 mi
5. Turn right at NY-43 6.5 mi
6. Merge onto I-90 W via the ramp to Albany 1.5 mi
7. Take exit 6A to merge onto I-787 S toward Albany 4.0 mi
8. Turn left at McCarty Ave/Southern Blvd/US-9W
Continue to follow Southern Blvd/US-9W 0.5 mi
9. Turn left at Delaware Ave/Main St/NY-443
Continue to follow NY-443 14.3 mi
10. Slight right at Helderberg Trail/NY-443 2.7 mi
11. Turn left at Filkins Hill Rd 1.8 mi
12. Turn right at Woodstock Rd 0.8 mi
13. Turn left at Cole Hill Rd/County Rte-2 0.7 mi
14. Turn left at Wright Way 0.1 mi
Wright Way
NY 12059

Friday, March 13, 2009

reactive versus proactive

http://sampath.dassanayake.name/2005/12/reactive-vs-proactive-language.html

Friday, January 23, 2009

Tatu - 30 Minutes

Tearjerker, for me, for some reason... a very sad video...


http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/tatu/30minutes.html

t.A.T.u. LYRICS

30 Minutes Ringtone Send "30 Minutes" Ringtone to Cell Phone 30 Minutes Ringtone


"30 Minutes"

Out of sight
Out of mind
Out of time
To decide

Do we run?
Should I hide?
For the rest
Of my life

Can we fly?
Do I stay?
We could lose
We could fail

In the moment
It takes
To make plans
Or mistakes

30 minutes, a blink of an eye
30 minutes,to alter our lives
30 minutes,to make up my mind
30 minutes,to finally decide

30 minutes,to whisper your name
30 minutes,to shoulder the blame
30 minutes,of bliss, thirty lies
30 minutes,to finally decide

Carousels
In the sky
That we shape
With our eyes

Under shade
Silhouettes
Casting shade
Crying rain

Can we fly?
Do I stay?
We could lose
We could fail

Either way
Options change
Chances fail
Trains derail

30 minutes, a blink of an eye
30 minutes,to alter our lives
30 minutes,to make up my mind
30 minutes,to finally decide

30 minutes,to whisper your name
30 minutes,to shoulder the blame
30 minutes,of bliss, thirty lies
30 minutes,to finally decide

To decide
To decide, to decide, to decide

To decide
To decide, to decide, to decide

To decide

[30 Minut]

Zarevet ubezhat
Ili dver na zamok
I molchat I lezhat
Izuchat potolok
I mechtat ne kak vse
Tselovat nebesa
Potolok karusel
Polchasa polchasa

Polchasa poezda pod otkos
Polchasa ne tvoya polosa
Polchasa, polchasa ne vopros
Ne otvet polchasa, polchasa
Polchasa bez tebya, polchasa
Polchasa on I ya, polchasa
Kazhdyi sam, kazhdyi sam Polchasa
po svoim adresam Polchasa

Sorvalas I kak vse
Kak vo sne
Ya ni ya
Ne moya karusel
I mechta ne moya
Ili dym, ili grust
Ili dozhd, po glazam
Ya vernus, ya vernus
Polachasa, polchasa

Polchasa poezda pod otkos
Polchasa ne tvoya polosa
Polchasa, polchasa ne vopros
Ne otvet polchasa, polchasa
Polchasa bez tebya, polchasa
Polchasa on I ya, polchasa
Kazhdyi sam, kazhdyi sam Polchasa
po svoim adresam

Polchasa-a ...



[Thanks to thecrossinggaurdssupreme@hotmail.com, socksrocks01@aol.com for correcting these lyrics]

[ www.azlyrics.com ]

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Expiration week

Yeah, another option expiration week. Am I watching my positions? Not obsessively, I like to think. Once or twice a day. Still, looking at my positions sometimes leads to an impulsive trade. Well, that's partly what got me into one that was looking good yesterday, long OIH with two diamond butterflies 1x2x1 70/80/85 Jan 09.  Worth $2000 if all goes well and OIH goes to exactly $80.00 on 3:59:59 EDT Friday, January 16. Ha! Not likely. It'll probably either blow past 80 to 85 or so and be worth $1000, or it'll expire worthless as the market crashes in expiration week again.

Is this on my mind constantly, even if I'm not watching my positions obsessively? Well, with $26,000 of debt, no income, and trading with debt money, I suppose it's unavoidable. So maybe all the obsessive FaceBook gaming these past few weeks has been a way to distract myself from being obsessive about trading. That is *NOT* proof that I am not obsessive about trading, now! It is merely proof that I can replace one habitual obsession with another. Yes, addicts can find substitutes, but substitutes do not cure the addiction.

Hmm, I should probably try some EFT... (Emotional Freedom Technique, some sort of tapping recommended by Joe Mercola of Mercola.com, see http://www.emofree.com/)

Friday, January 9, 2009

Slow work / tiredness / trading

I just stubled across this in my history:
http://luckiestone.blogspot.com/

It's about a law student afflicted by a gambling addiction.

Well, did my gambling addiction take over my life, perhaps to an equal extent? I think that question need not even be asked, if one were to include all the money-loaning activity I did from 1999 through 2004 in the category of my gambling activities. Surely, it did. Does it now, when I just have $10,000 at risk on some option positions that bounce back and forth by about $1000 a day on average, lately? Hmm... It's not so unsettling anymore. No, I don't want to nor expect to just lose that $10k, but I am familiar with the risks now in a way I wasn't three years ago, and I *still*, despite the pain of losing about $100,000 trading these last three years, am glad for the experience of finally coming to understand risk better. But I suppose there may be cheaper and better ways of learning such...

My work on the project, the startup I joined 5 years ago, as has been the case several times these past few years, has been very slow in progress in the last few months. Considering I have no income, I really should just drop it and go get a job, but I am somewhat concerned about how my poor performance of late reflects upon me, and even if that does not affect someone else's judgement of me, it affects my own, so I am determined to get this project to the point I intended to ... to a point of satisfactory completion, having redesigned the database and optimized the cube and the front-end of this BI application. But my perfectionism slows me down, as does some sort of aversion I have to the whole project (maybe because I resent not being paid for it, lately.)

Ahh, hopefully these next few days will go more productively. But once again I was awake most of the night, and am a little bit tired now... need to sleep the next 6 hours, but I plan to fight it for now. That fighting sleep leads, I fear, to a stress loop that makes it hard to get good-quality sleep, but I think exercise should help me work out of it. It seems to me to have helped yesterday.