It's time once again for my monthly re-emergence into the interwebs. I really do plan on coming out more often, perhaps when I get a bed installed in my office, so then I don't have to worry about all these intra-day-transitions from home to work, work to home. I can just have a nice little work/home.
Speaking of work/home, I have successfully completed my Series 63 License. Because of this little gem, you can now look me up on the FINRA website and see that I'm not a terrorist.
Outside of work/home, I've been trying to create a weekly study session with the local jr college's Japanese class. We had our first meeting last week, where I met a lot of kids who are way more fluent than I was in the level 1 program. It must be the clean air and water here.
I also got in touch with an old flame: Kathy Babcock. She was my old ballroom teacher/slave-driver. She was the woman who whipped our immature, high-school minds & bodies into dancing machines for a 40's Night Club Reenactment that we put on every year. Not everyone survived the training regiment though, and some of the parents got mad. I mean, I guess it's a big deal, but I don't think they understood the "vision". Anyway, I'm trying to get back into the Redding dance circuit (insert sad laughter here).
Speaking of visions, this is something that I found while going through some Machiavelli and Wolin:
Speaking of work/home, I have successfully completed my Series 63 License. Because of this little gem, you can now look me up on the FINRA website and see that I'm not a terrorist.
Outside of work/home, I've been trying to create a weekly study session with the local jr college's Japanese class. We had our first meeting last week, where I met a lot of kids who are way more fluent than I was in the level 1 program. It must be the clean air and water here.
I also got in touch with an old flame: Kathy Babcock. She was my old ballroom teacher/slave-driver. She was the woman who whipped our immature, high-school minds & bodies into dancing machines for a 40's Night Club Reenactment that we put on every year. Not everyone survived the training regiment though, and some of the parents got mad. I mean, I guess it's a big deal, but I don't think they understood the "vision". Anyway, I'm trying to get back into the Redding dance circuit (insert sad laughter here).
Speaking of visions, this is something that I found while going through some Machiavelli and Wolin:
The vicissitudes to which empires are subject cause them to pass from order into confusion, and afterwards to return once more to a condition of order. The nature of wordly affairs prevents their continuing on an even course; when they have arrived at their greatest perfection, decline soon sets in. Similarly, having been overcome by disorder, and reduced to the lowest state of depression, unable to sink lower, they must necessarily reascend; and thus from good they gradually sink into evil, and from evil return once more to good.Replace empire with "account values" or "portfolios," replace chaos with "bloody day on Wallstreet," and you pretty much got it. I think I'm going to frame it.
Bah, the Chinese said first and more succinctly in Three Kingdoms: "The empire that is long divided will unite, and the empire that is long united will fall apart."
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