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Saw on Channel 6 last night that there is a chance that they (the Bells) may be able to reopen in Coweta.  I would love to see Zingo back in business.  I remember one year that Rick Cook and I went to the fair and he had a bunch of free passes for the rides and we got in the very front car and rode Zingo like a million times in a row. (maybe not really a million).  It still would tense you up when you came towards that last curve shooting straight at 21st street and it “flew” around the corner and slammed on the brakes!

Memorial Day weekend is upon us.  I hope to get some pictures of the boat this weekend.  We took it out last Saturday and really enjoyed it, but didn’t have the guts to swim, water still a little chilly. 

We boated to my brothers cabin where they were having his grandsons 4th birthday party and my sister and her husband boated over with us.  After the party we cruised up the lake a ways and I can’t wait to get back over there.

We have internet at the cabin now, so maybe I can get some pictures uploaded. 

Till later,

Jim

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As I have been watching Palm stock the past week or so, I decided to jump in a buy a few shares.  Immediately after buying 20 shares at $4.06, it dropped to $3.90.  This is the way I usually do it.  The stock that I sold to buy Palm had been $20 and hadn’t moved in two months, and the day after I sold, it hit $23.  My luck.

Anyway, back to Palm.  Seeing it drop even lower, I thought buy more, but my chickenedness (is that really a word?) came out in me so I didn’t.

 Well, as you can see from the chart it finally gained today.  Hit a high of $4.74 and closed around $4.60.

So, if you took my advice (a scarey thing), and bought a million shares, you made $674,000.  Please just address my commission check to cash.

Be sure to come back from time to time to see if I have any other great tips, but never bank on them.

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I vote for Palm smartphone.  Not because I think they are a better, cooler phone, but because their stock price plummetted to an all time low, so I sold off a little non-moving stock (Solar Winds) and bought some Palm stock.  Immediately today it dropped $0.03 per share, but hey, what goes down, must go up, or something like that. 

 Anyway, my stock tip of the day is Palm.  It opened this morning at $4.04 and closed at $4.01.  It’s 52 week high though, was just over $18.  So, wait and see.

 For those of you who bought DOW when I said to, “you’re welcome”.  If you bought at $8.20 per share, it closed today at just over $30.   If only I owned about 100,000 shares, right? 

Believe me folks, I have no plan to quit my day job.  I am not gambling with my kids college fund or planning on being able to retire early off all my portfolio profits, but it is fun.

Till later, Jim

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………..Or down. 

I found my old bottle cutter, which I bought in Singapore with birthday money while living in Duri.  I really never was able to do much with it then because I broke more bottles than I ever got cut straight.  Hey, I was 12 years old.

Debbie had a wine bottle from Thanksgiving at the Lake last year and said it would make a nice vase, so I gave it a try.  Not too bad.  I figure she can clean up the rough edge where it didn’t break real straight with either her grinder or maybe just a breaker.  It etched it pretty straight, but it didn’t break all the way around on the line.  Actually, it popped apart.  You have to heat it up and then are supposed to cool it, but I probably got it too hot.  With practice, I may get better.

What got it all started was going to Mollys Landing in Catoosa for my Birthday Thursday night.  We noticed that all their drinking glasses appear to be bottles that have been cut off.  They aren’t all perfect cuts either, so maybe it just adds that touch of flair.

So, I guess we will have to start drinking more wine.  If we want a full set of glasses, at the rate we drink wine, it will take 10 years to get a set of 8!

If you have a bottle you want cut, bring it by, no promise, but I will cut it.

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No, not the bad kind of wet, soggy rain, but a cool concert about the Beatles at the PAC in Tulsa.

My loving wife bought tickets for my Birthday for us (and Kati) for around the 1st part of April.  I am so looking forward to it.  I love concerts anyway, but when you add the sounds of the Beatles, it makes it even better.  

Did I mention, it is my Birthday?  Presents are welcome by the way (haha).  Actually, my wife told me last night that she hates my Birthday because I never ask for anything and that makes it really hard for her to figure out what to get me.  Well, let me tell you, the concert is all I could have asked for, but then she went and let me order a new radio for the boat too!  I am one lucky man.

I am turning 53 this year and as I look around, I realize how lucky I really am.  I have a loving, beautiful wife, two daughters that are both growing up to be wonderful, smart people, a great son-in-law, who spoils his wife in the manner she has become acustomed to. 

It makes me happy to see my Sister, my Mom and Dad singing in the Church Choir on Sunday morning and my brother and his family enjoying the business that he has built. 

I have managed to stay gainfully employed for the past nearly 33 years and have many, many good friends and continue to make new ones and am having a blast using Facebook to find ones that I haven’t seen or heard from in 40 years.

Okay, mush time is over.  I hope each and everyone of you can find even half the happiness that I have found.

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Well, give the weather guys a star.  They had been telling us all week that a big, bad snow storm was coming this week.  Though they were a few hours off, it got here.

Debbie and I had to make a flying dash to Tulsa yesterday evening.  I had bought a bunch of store shelving at “Old Time Pottery” which is going out of business, and they called about 3:30 and they told us it was needing to be picked up, now.

We headed on down and about Collinsville, we started to get a little sleet, by the time we got the shelving all broke down and loaded it was about 6:15.  We headed out and figured we had better not stop for dinner and I am glad we didn’t.  By the time we hit Owasso, it was getting pretty dark and icy. 

I will try to snap a few pictures tomorrow.  I think we probably got around 3 – 5 inches and it was still snowing slightly when I got home tonight.

Debbie had fixed a big pot of homemade stew and it really hit the spot.  We just pretty much sat around, watched a little TV and poked around on the computers.  The greatest thing is that in the “old” days (last year) we had Hughesnet satellite internet and on a day like today, I would have had to have gone outside and knocked off the snow a few times just to keep it working.  Now with Atlas Wireless Internet, no problems!  If you live in the rural Nowata area, check it out.  They come off the water tower north of Oologah.  It is fast and fantastic.

Well, till later,

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I haven’t posted anything in a while.  Seems that Facebook has taken over my extra time, or my life maybe.  Found a site in Facebook that I can upload pictures from my family’s days in Indonesia and have reconnected with a few friends from that time in my life.  It is so cool to find someone that you knew so many years ago and that they also are interested in where you are and what you are doing.  Sets up a whole new idea of a class reunion!

 The picture, by the way, is of a Python snake that the natives (Sakis) caught in the jungle and tied up to a tree.  Our school decided that warrented a field trip, so away we went.  We also went to jump on a dead elephant, went to see a cobra snake and a dead tiger.  Pretty cool for a bunch of 1st – 8th graders.  If you are on Facebook, and nowadays, who isn’t, go to this link and check ou the group.   http://www.facebook.com/#/group.php?gid=60868652074

Well, guess I had better finish up and get a little real work done. 

Til later

Jim

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I love playing the guitar.  I am not very good at it and I usually don’t play the whole song (as my kids can attest), but I still love it.

While looking for lyrics on the web, I ran across a site at www.chordie.com, and it is Great!  You can find a lot of different songs, from Country, Gospel to Rock.  I have been printing out Christmas Songs all evening.  You can do a lot of really helpful things with this site also.  You can change the “key”, so when you don’t like trying to play those chords you need six fingers for, you can change it to something maybe a little more to your liking.

You can also print out the songs, double spaced, with the chords above the words.  This is the only way I can even try to play most of the songs. 

Check it out when you get a minute.

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Well, the fuss is over.  OU whipped up on OSU today and there are a whole bunch of Sooner Fans that are real happy.  We must take some of the blame since I, at the hospital with my Dad in Grove and Kati, (The most awesome Paddle Girl in the bunch) weren’t there to Cheer and Paddle their team to a victory.

The picture is of Kati (bottom row, in the sunglasses, yeah I know, it was night time, but she’s a college student now) in her 3 seconds of Fame on ESPN at one of the home games where her, along with about 90 other crazy OSU fans camp out for days before the game to get front row seats for every home game.  They sit and slap wooden paddle on the wall in front of them in unison in an attempt to really bother the opposing team.  It’s been working quite well this year as OSU has had an outstanding season, but since they don’t travel to out of town games, OU, playing at home, had the upper hand.  Oh well, there is always next year, and Kati tell me that OSU is still getting to go to a Bowl Game, so good luck to them!

Now, back to Dad.  We spent Thanksgiving at Mom and Dads lake cabin as we do every year and had a very nice day with all the family gathered around.  Dad seemed to be getting tired pretty easy through the day, but we just thought it was all the work he had been doing the past couple of weeks.  (He put up a new wrought iron rail fence around the deck and has been raking leaves for weeks.)

But, about 5 o’clock Friday morning, mom woke us up and said that they had called 911 to have an ambulance come for Dad.  They came and we all followed them to Grove Hospital where it was determined that he had a pretty severe case of pnemonia.  They got him checked in and started on some antibiotics and some breathing treatments and today when we went back over, he was doing really well.  He had been sitting up, shaved, brushed his teeth and hair and had eaten a very good lunch.  Hopefully he will be able to get out Monday.  You must realize, he is 79 years old (or he needs to realize it) and he just does more than he should sometimes.  He is a tough though, and you can’t slow him down.  Hope I can be as active when I am his age.

Time to head to the sack.  Church tomorrow, then maybe try to get the Christmas Tree down and maybe some decorating done.

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