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Saturday, 08 September 2007 |
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Yay!!! I'm on holidays now and I have the two most important people in the world with me for one whole week! Emma and Brad are going to Queensland with Donna next week so we don't have a trip planned, but I'm sure we will find some cool stuff to do. Emma is going shopping tomorrow with Tegan and my money so she is already happy.
About twelve months ago I came home late one night to find the power off to my house but the neighbors had power and the street lights were on. I checked the fuses (they were OK) before I noticed that someone had turned off the switches in the fuse box. I can only assume some evil person wanted to see if I was away by coming back the next day to see if the switches were still off. Last night the same thing happened (or so I thought). I came home late to no power, but this time the switches were still on. To cut a long story short, I had to wait for an Aurora guy to arrive and replace the main fuse bolted up under the eaves as it was so old it had crumbled away.
The share market continues to bounce back and I've started to receive some dividends as well so the bank balance is looking a bit better. I've also discovered that Google can send me money electronically so that will save me $10 a pop. Speaking of Google, I've noticed that they are showing lots of graphical adds on Tasweb now. I don't get to choose the ads they show, so I assume I've moved up the pecking order a bit lately.
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Friday, 31 August 2007 |
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What a crazy month it's been in the world of shares. The bottom dropped out of everything I was holding. I sold some taking small losses and held some others that had dropped so much that it wasn;t worth selling them. Things have recovered somewhat over the past two weeks, however I'm still well below where I would have been if I had just left the money in the bank. Still, it's a long term thing, so I'm not too fussed.
Emma's netball team (the Aviators) finished up second on the ladder and were odds on to play Taroona in the grand final, but unfortunately Tegan tried to slice her finger off with a scalpel in the science room and the school theater production clashed with the semis meaning they were missing a few players (including Emma) and they dipped out ending up in third place.
Brad's table tennis team are pushing into second place on their ladder with a few games to go. They were moved up a division after winning the trophy for first place last season so the competition is a bit hotter and they are all doing really well.
Brad's tennis finished up a few weeks ago, but because he missed the first week he didn't receive the sheet that told him about the grand final and because it was raining that night he didn't turn up and missed out on the opportunity to play. He has improved heaps and I'm sure he will do well next term.
I've been playing tennis myself lately and was amazed to find out that one of the girls I play with lives five doors up from me. Even more exciting is that she tests the beer at the Cascade Brewery!
I mentioned the school theater production earlier. It was called "How the west was warped" and was a musical comedy Western spoof. It was an amazing performance. Very funny and the singing and music was great. Emma spent the whole week before the performance out of school practicing as she was playing the trumpet in the band. They then did two performances each day for a week. By the end of it she was exhausted and her lips were almost bleeding!
As far as the Google cheque is concerned, I paid their stupid $10 fee and cashed the cheque, but looked into having Google use EFT to transfer the money. That failed because the stupid Credit Union have the one common BSB and account number that all overseas transactions have to be paid into. You then use the payment reference to specify the real account number to have the money paid into. The trouble is that Google's web page doesn't allow you to enter a payment reference so I'm stuffed!!!!
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Wednesday, 22 August 2007 |
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I thought I probably should bank my first Google cheque before the silverfish turn it into dust, so I took a walk to the Credit Union today. I queued up for ages waiting for a customer "service" person to become available (it was lunchtime and there were only two people serving). When it was finally my turn the pretty young girl (person number one) took all my details and entered it all into her computer, but when she hit the last button it went "bing" with an error. Turns out that cheques in US dollars need to be done at the enquiries desk. How stupid of me, why didn't I realise that myself! I wandered over and waited in the queue at the enquiries desk (only one person serving here). The guy (he wasn't at all pretty - person number two) saw me waiting and pressed a bell that made a sound a lot like the ding of the pretty girls computer and that made me a bit anxious. Another lady (person number three) came out and told me that we had to go behind a wall to her desk. I was asked to sit down (a bad sign) and she set about trying to find a form. Once the form was located I had to answer all the same questions that person number one (pretty girl) had asked me, but there were still a few empty holes on the form. Person number three then picked up the phone and rang another department (person number four) to find out what the exchange rate was. This was calculated and entered on the form, another strange unexplained figure was entered and a total calculated that ended up $10.00 less than what it should have been. Coincidentally the unexplained figure was also exactly $10.00. I had to ask and person number three told me this was the processing fee. I asked what I had to pay a processing fee for and was told it was to pay for the time it takes to process an overseas cheque. At this point I was ready to explode. They had wasted almost twenty minutes of my life due to their stupid inefficient process and I had to pay them for the privilege. There is more to this story, but I have to go grab E & B from school so I'll do the rest another time.
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Sunday, 19 August 2007 |
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I'm working on another update to the high score games. I have heaps of new games to upload and some cool new features and bug fixes as well. I've got them installed on my development site and all looks good so far. Expect an update in the next few weeks, and remember that you need to create a Tasweb account and login before your scores will be saved.
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Thursday, 16 August 2007 |
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When you look at the ad for the Big Mac you know that it's nothing like the photo, but when I decided to start trading shares I went into it thinking that no matter what happened I would make money in the long run. That may still be true, but geez, no one told me it could be this bad. The share market has gone mental and every day seems to break the previous record for the biggest loss in a single day. All of the stock I'm holding has dropped well below the price I paid for it and at the moment I'm loosing almost $1000 a day! I've sold most of my shares, but the ones remaining are trading so low that I'm just going to hold onto them in the hope that sanity prevails soon and they head back towards the black. I guess the only ray of hope is that this opens up some buying opportunities as the prices at the moment are ridiculously low. Good companies announcing record profits with huge potential have lost value like crazy all because of some stupid lending practices in another country. I mean what does mortgage lending in the USA have to do with a nickel miner in Australia?
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Monday, 06 August 2007 |
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 My beautiful daughter Emma found this funny animated gif thingie of Homers very cool little Spider Pig. If you have no idea what it's about then you need to go see the Simpson's movie!
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Wednesday, 01 August 2007 |
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Another month has gone by so I'll post another share trading update. I don't know if anyone else is interested in this stuff, but I want to document it anyway because I'm sure I'll look back on this one day and laugh. I just hope I'm financially comfortable when I do the laughing! This hasn't been a very good month, but I'm still well ahead on where I'd be if I'd just left the money in the bank. I bought shares in Mine Makers (MAK) and Anglo Australian (AAR). Both are mining companies, but Minemakers is interesting because they have discovered Uranium in Tasmania! I sold my Gunns (GNS) shares for a loss this month. I had to put my own personal thoughts aside when I bought Gunns shares and now I wish I had let my heart speak a bit louder than my calculator. Other than the Gunns loss things were going OK until the American market took a big dive last Friday. The Aussie market followed suit on Monday and has struggled to recover all week. I lost over $1000 in the first 30 minutes of trading on Monday which was a bit scary to watch! The TV news people were saying that it was the biggest single day drop since 9/11. Perhaps I'm stupid, but I still don't understand how a drop in housing sales in America can wipe out billions of dollars from the Australian market. Here is the updated graph;
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Saturday, 28 July 2007 |
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I received an invitation to attend a special announcement by David Bartlett the Minister for Education about the new Kingston High School that was held yesterday at the Kingborough Sports Centre. I wasn't too sure what to expect, but I assumed he would just re confirm his Governments commitment to the project and announce the actual location within the Sports Centre grounds. When I arrived I was confronted by more "important" people in suits than I have ever seen before. All of the television networks had cameras there and there were heaps of newspaper photographers as well. There were even radio people there with microphones and recorders. There were names like Michael Hodgman, David Bartlett (of course), Kevin Harkins and Nick McKim as well as the Mayor and a heap of councilors. The Minister, the Mayor and the Principal all went for a walk across the grass for the benefit of the cameras and then we moved inside the soccer club rooms out of the cold. There were a heap of Kingston High students inside to serve food and drink and we were greeted by some awesome singing and music that certainly wasn't expected. These students were a credit to the school and their parents should be very proud of them! The Minister made his speech confirming the project was going ahead on the patch of land to the left of the road that leads towards the sports centre. The Mayor (who happened to be in charge of the pediatric intensive care unit at the Royal Hobart Hospital at a time when Donna and I needed it the most) gave his speech and surprised a few with talk of a pretty big redevelopment of the whole area including a performing arts centre. Then Helen Gourley our Principal gave her speech and I was a bit surprised but very grateful to hear her thank me by name (amongst others) for the work that we did at a time when it was looking as if the new school could be dropped. I was also very glad to hear Helen mention Sue Livingston as she has made a huge contribution. Of course Lex McIndoe's efforts were also mentioned. Lex was the Chairperson of the School Association during this period and was the driving force behind our combined effort. The Mayor and the Minister then signed a Heads of Agreement document before we were served food and drink by the KHS students whilst their mates played more music. It was nice of the Mayor and the Council General Manager to come up to me to thank me personally for the small part that I played. I was determined to have a chat with the Minister before he left so I wandered over and thanked him for his commitment not only to this project, but also for ensuring that no other school would suffer funding cutbacks. I guess it remains to be seen if this actually eventuates. He did make an unusual comment to me that is worth recording here. He said "Phill, this is a great result for everyone, every child wins a prize". I happened to know (from a mate of his) that he was traveling up to Launceston on Sunday to watch the Hawks and the Kangaroos play at York Park, so I left him with the comment "I hope you enjoy the footy on Sunday". You should have seen the "how the heck does he know that" look on his face! It's a pity that the date has been moved back a year. This wasn't made very clear at the time as the Minister just mentioned the old 2010 date, but what he failed to mention was that instead of opening at the start of the 2010 school year, the keys will be handed over to the Principal at the end of the 2010 school year. That means that as long as nothing slips Brad should move in for year 10 and will be amongst the first ever school leavers from the new building.
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