Today was a crappy day for the market! The dow dropped 358 points and it’s pretty nasty out there. The march bottoms have been broken and it’s anyones guess what is going to happen next. I had a few option positions that I was investigating; however, with the recent market action I’m going to hold [...]
Well, the fed is meeting again shortly, and it appears that they are going to hold the fed funds rate at its current levels. While I’m personally happy they are doing this (I have a floating rate HELOC), I’m not sure this is the best policy given our current ecnomic difficulties.
I am not a fan [...]
We’ve just picked up a Roomba for the Barr family household. It is a fantastic little tool! For those of you that are not familiar with the iRobot Roomba, it’s a little electronic robot vacum.
Last night we picked up the Roomba at Coscto, plugged him in and then set it loose. It was pretty funny [...]
It’s been a long, long time since I’ve said anything on the blog. So here is what’s happening. My single trade in May worked out just fine. The paper money account is nicely up for the year, so is my personal account.
I’ll try to find another trade coming up here shortly. The markets look pretty [...]
BOY!!!
Doc says he measures perfectly normal, and he has all his parts. We were excited and relieved to find out that A) he’s a he, and B) he’s very healthy. It was truly amazing to watch his little face come into view on the ultrasound screen (just the regular 2D kind), and the [...]
Posted on April 28, 2008 at 5:57 am
By Megan in Barr Family Blog
On Saturday, Ryan and I walked in the March of Dimes’ March for Babies along w/ 11 other Stroller Strides Modesto teammates. The weather was beautiful (not nearly as hot as last year!), and everyone was in really good spirits. As a team, we managed to raise over $2000. I was able to contribute $550, [...]
So, if you’ve read any of my other posts on personal finance you’ve likely figured out that I think debt (that doesn’t make you any money) is bad. If debt is bad, and you have it, then you’re goal should be to get out of it!
How to get out of bad debt…
There are two mainstream [...]
Here we go again. It’s just about option expiration Friday and it’s looking like the papermoney and my personal positions are all shaping up to be quite nice. I’ve also put out a few orders for a few new May positions, basically copying the current April ones and rolling them out. I’ll [...]
Borrow from your 401k.
A few days ago I was at a dinner party with some friends. We were talking about a ton of different issues from politics to economics and during the course of the conversation privatization of retirement plans came up. One of the folks in the conversation said that he supported [...]
