Two Hammers

The plunge in the value of the stock market takes its toll on investment and retirement accounts; and we call these paper or unrealized losses.  I guess that one does not realize that they lost something if they never had it to begin with.  Whereas, my machinery and tools may not be worth as much as they were before, but, they are still here and real.  My machines still make money for me, though again, not as much as before.  Likewise my house is worth a fraction of what it was worth a year ago.  Yet, I will not realize the loss until I sell it.  In the meantime it is a nice place to raise a family.

This line of thinking is probably way to utilitarian for the Wall Street types.  But if I can live in, or rent my house, it will always have value to me.  Maybe instead of worring about my unrealized paper losses, I should work on completing some of the remodeling projects around the house.

“I was scared and running for my life; tile falling off the wall displays and crashing everywhere”, said Melinda, the store manger for Tuscany tile and Stone in Brea, CA.  The Chino Hills, CA 5.4 earthquake on July 29 2008 shook nearby Brea, CA, damaging homes and businesses.  Though most damage was fairly minor, cracks in walls, fallen over block walls and stucco damage; some areas felt the trembler more.  “It looks like a bomb exploded in our showroom”, said Terry, one of the proprietors as he surveyed the aftermath of the earthquake.  The trembler devasted Tuscany Tile’s designer tile and custom stone displays. 

This was a major blow to Tuscany Tile and Stone, coming in the middle of their summer tile sale.  Melinda and Terry could use the communities support in recovering from this disaster; if you are shopping for tile please give them a call.

The business news keeps reporting about the large number of home foreclosures plaguing the country.  Looking out from under my rock in north Orange County, CA I have only seen two.  Are they all being kept low key by the banks?  Clue me in, where are all of them?

This is how the scenario plays out.  Obama is elected president with Clinton as vice president.  A Rush Limbaugh dildo head shoots Obama in the head, then a jealous girlfriend shoots Clinton.  Pelosi then becomes president, and we all shoot ourselves in the head because we should be voting Libertarian.

Spare me the hate mail; this was just a weird dream that I had.

The Writer’s Guild of America strike  has been a major boost for blogging.  With nothing but reruns to watch on late night tv; what else does a body have to do but blog.