117 days down, going 121

I guess I'm settling into the night shift routine. It's kind of comforting knowing that it'll only last for four weeks. Three more weeks to go. I'm feeling pretty good right now, though somewhat sad. There's little to do at night time because everything has to be quiet and it's hard to stay up.
Hmm, as for other stuff to report, not sure what to say. There's profit share coming up at the end of the month, so I'm putting off making month end figures till then. I hope I get something good. Been late a few times so might be a tad small. We'll see what happens.

Night Shift

Working nights for a while. So far so good. after tomorrow, I'll be a quarter of the way done. It's actually nice to have a bit of a change for a while, and the night is more relaxed. There's more activity in the day with trucks being loaded, and some pieces of equipment only run during the day. When everything slows down, the feel of the place changes.
116 days down now, 117 at the end of the week. I'm surprised I haven't updated this in a while. I've also been a little negligent in my record keeping too. My spreadsheet hasn't been updated in a while. Oh well, next weekend. Also, my birthday is coming up soon.

Loneliness and Nostalgia

Today, I found myself under a severe wave of loneliness. I just miss having close friends and snuggles. Also, found myself feeling nostalgic for some old games, Warpath and Castle of the Winds specifically.
Castle of the Winds is an old role playing game, more details and free download available here http://www.exmsft.com/~ricks/
Warpath is a galactic conquest action/strategy game, more details and free download available here http://www.synthetic-reality.com/warpath.htm
They don't have all the fancy 3d renderings, but the simplistic game play makes them timeless classics. Obscure classics, but still classics. It's something that I kind of want to get involved in, making simple games that'll hopefully have a timeless feel to them. Anyway, I should get some rest.

Epiphany

I've been listening to The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life lately and I had an epiphany when it came to discussing the efficient market hypothesis. While it may be difficult to beat the market average, what if I don't want to? Everyone is focused on gaining money. However if markets really are rational and efficient and everything drives toward the average, not only can you not beat the market it must also be difficult to loose money or hold steady. It is a fact that things average out. It is also a fact that losers must be offset by winners, otherwise the average is misstated.
I wonder if it's worthwhile to try to develop some sort of philosophy about the investment market rather than just view my little corner of it.

Sad again

What a difference a day makes. I feel a deep and profound sadness today. Earlier, I was starting to feel good about myself. Though some positives today. Returned someone's bank card and mustard seed ID. It took me a little out of the way, but it was the right thing to do. Also a bit of irony worth noting, on Friday, I managed to buy about $5.7K of a fairly illiquid security. Someone accepted my bid at the close of the market, and a bunch of shares traded for less leaving me feeling like I may have over paid. Today, it is one of few items that are up on an otherwise down day. Oh well. Hopefully tomorrow goes better.

Happy Independence Day

I'd just like to start by saying happy Independence Day to my American neighbours, friends and family. I figured out what I should bring to share the next time I go visiting friends, these maple leaf creme cookies are delicious. I'm in an up beat mood finally, though I just really want to sleep. Maybe I'll squeeze in yet another nap for the day. It's starting to be a rather substantial number. I suppose another thing I should mention before I forget is that I've worked 105 days this year.

Happy Canada day, end of June, end of Q2 and end of H1

It’s sad to say that half of yet another year has gone by. I feel like I’ve been missing out on a lot. Making good progress on my goals though.
Ignoring investment activities, I made $17K and this pie graph shows where it went.



Maybe if I actually get around to writing some software again, I’ll show my spending in categories. It should be fairly trivial task, but I haven’t done anything of the sort in quite a while. It’ll have to wait till I’m covering more of my expenses before it means anything though. At the moment, I think I’m going to target moving in October.