Warren Buffet

It was almost four months ago when I unwrapped this biography of Warren Buffet that my mom thoughtfully picked out. I flipped through the pages and noticed very few pictures and thought to myself I would probably never finish this.

For those who know me the focus of finishing any book is a challenge unless it captivates all of my interests (or at least the strongest ones) and until today that list has consisted of mostly smaller books. Four months and 838 pages later (while still keeping up with my textbooks) I finished my largest "recreational" read ever.

I wouldn't consider Buffet to have a role model life but he is a decent business man who had solid time proven advice. I couldn't summarize it into anything of substance here but would point out that the interest that consumed me most was the eerie similarities of both of us making every thought into something related to business starting as a young child.

After reading this book and reading about the "other" people who put up with this obsession about Warren, I have to apologize to my "others" my parents, sisters and childhood friends who put up with me wanting to play nothing but "jobs" which really meant they worked and I made the money :) Being around someone like that can be too much, so thanks for putting up with me... (as if you had a choice right Evaly?) Hopefully it pays off to even a fraction of what buffet did. I know that's what Christy is hoping considering she chose me after knowing I was wired that way.

I've already promised to pass this on to Mike S. since he and I share the same business disorder. But when he's done let me know if your interested. Anybody here already read this?

"Misty Eyed"

So, what about this picture made me misty eyed? This was Parker's first fast food trip. Again, why does that make a Mom teary eyed? It was a sign to me that my baby is growing up! It feels like a big step to be able to feed him something from wherever we go. I don't have to pack him food in the diaper bag? Really? Isn't he too little?

The same day as Parker's first-fast-food-trip he swung in the baby swings for the first time. I don't know why we waited so long for that, but Parker could take it or leave it. Wasn't too impressed.

(No lectures on feeding my baby fast food! I don't plan to do it frequently! That would mess up all the good I did nursing him for a year : )

*Oh yeah and I'm glad you all got a kick out of my previous post. Of course, except for you, Staci.

Couldn't stop laughing

I guess its going to happen sometime

It's really out of Parker's nature to be to difficult sleeping through the night, but last night this is how it was at our house.

We had a power outage that woke him up around 9 pm, and he was so spooked that I couldn't calm him down for anything. Eventually he fell asleep on my chest after nearly two hours of crying. Poor kid.

Dueling Match Up – Who Would Win???

I am extremely troubled by the way government has behaved lately, maybe they feel they are just acting out the frustrations of the people however comments like executives should "resign… and commit suicide” is professionally uncalled for. Since Government insists on taking on AIG and the Greedy Evil Corporate Executives I thought we’d match them up and see who wins. This should be FUN!

ROUND I – Fuel to the fire

Sure AIG should have seen the public whiplash coming from handing out millions to executives didn’t they watch what happened to Merrill Lynch? Congress has this round with plenty of people out of work, and losing homes it’s easy to light the fire on a few dozen people nobody knows anything about except they made a lot of money this year when there company went belly up.

ROUND II – Private Jets

Obviously we’ve learned that if you want to get money out of the government you better carpool to Washington. Most of the corporate executives are relearning the art of traveling couch or finding a new job. Apparently however the 500+ members of the house and senate don’t need to be as frugal considering they increased there own spending limits in the last “stimulus” bill they pushed through. Would you like a pillow Mrs. Pelosi? Corporate wins this round although they probably wouldn’t want to.

FINAL ROUND – Wasting money

AIG wanted to spend $168 million in bonuses, that’s bad right? Well depends, out of the $170 billion they received those bonuses were less than one tenth of one percent. Just a few weeks ago Government gave away somewhere between $3.8 - 12.8 billion in nearly 9,000 earmarks. Even if you took the low number that’s over 22 times what AIG wanted to spend. I think corporate knocks government out.

Outcome: Corporate - 2 vs. Government – 1

The Winner is… nobody. The Loser is all of us. No matter who wins this mud throwing and saber rattling we are all still fronting the bill. I do find it ironic that congress would act so outlandishly to such a small amount comparatively speaking. Maybe it’s so all the news networks stop pointing out congress oversight and blunders. Either way shame on them both, let’s move on to that Hope and Change we were talking about…

Dear Uncle Brent,

Thanks for playing trains with me in California!

You're the best uncle!

~Parker

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