Warms the cockles of my black little heart, this does. Only pity was that my neighbor's lawn people were nice enough to set it back upright earlier today. (These are the same neighbors right across the street who have the corner lot, therefore, they felt it necessary to get two signs. The temptation to swerve, I'm telling you...)

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From mac - ohhhh mom, you are SO immature.

From the mouths of babes... Oy.

Nah, the economic news has got oil speculators thinking demand will drop steeply. I have confidence that OPEC at some point will cut production to stop the free fall.

An interesting consequence: Crude oil is the largest single component in your basic commodities index. Not so surprising. So when the price of oil drops, commodities indices will also fall. Now, the Aussie dollar is IIRC the fourth-most traded currency in the world. That's way above what you'd expect from the size of our economy; people trading in Aussie dollars aren't just buying Aussie products. It's a speculative currency, is the thing. Investors view it as a play in the commodities market - because our exports are dominated by commodities. We have a lot of coal, a lot of different kinds of metals, even some gold, and we dig it up and ship it out; so our currency gets affected by commodities prices.

What we don't export is oil. We have some oil fields, but they're a lot smaller than our own demand. Nonetheless, the price of oil is dropping, and so the commodities index is dropping. And so the Aussie dollar is also dropping. We're down to US$0.654 now. Apparently the speculators haven't noticed that we don't export oil.

He learned the word immature from the Captain Underpants books, the irony it burns.

From mac - ohhhh mom, you are SO immature.

Ha ha ha! It's funny cuz it's true.

My current obsession is how to get to the airport on Wednesday. I want to be there by 5. So do I take a cab, which is expensive and could end up stuck in traffic, or do I take the train, which is kind of schlep and will take longer than a good-luck cab, but possibly less time than a bad-luck cab?

Ahahaha! I just got your note today, msbelle (&mac!) I loved having you here. Farty McFarter.

Am trying to let go of the sheets. Took me months to decide on them. Bitter.

Have sleepy kitty. He's clucking in his sleep. I think being stoned last night is catching up with him. Devi only got stalkery for a short period tonight. Maybe shutting her in the bedroom when I'm gone is a good thing. (I had just been shutting Loki in ther.)

I want to go to her [link] guesthouse. In another lifetime, I thought I'd be her, without the shopping and blog.

Just got called for another political poll.

I'm seeing more positive Obama tv ads than negative McCain.

sara, I hope you can get a refund from your credit card company and eventually get the sheets.

OMG, ita, I hope you shut off GA after the first five minutes. That's all I've seen so far, but I can only imagine.

I'm grim on getting my money back, but who knows.

Loki showing off his recovery.

Sleepyheads