Wednesday, February 16, 2005

There was something on the Daily Show tonight about bloggers. They're changing the world or something. I guess it's kind of cool to have a blog. So I have one, but I don't feel all that cool. I wish I could find something interesting to write.

I'm staying up late so I can pull some shirts out of the dryer when they get dry. If I leave them overnight, they'll be hard to iron with the industrial strength wrinkles that set in around 3:00 AM in the morning.

I got a request from some Russian dude to put a link on my web site (www.innovasyn.com) to his company. It's a chemistry company that provides compounds to other companies. They can make them cheaply because they employ chemist in Russia that don't have anything to do and will work for peanuts. That's why I don't have a job now. I've got a list of about 3,475 companies and he asked that I add his company to that list. He's got a list of 6 things and I asked that he add my company. So he did. It didn't seem like an even trade to me but he seemed satisfied. Then he asked if I could also post a friend's web site. It's more of an informational web site rather than a company. So it got better billing in a different link place. But I get so few hits that I don't know if there's any difference between the two.

I recently checked out the new MSN search. I did a search for "parallel synthesis" which is the realm in which I'm trying to do commerce. My company was listed around 14th. It's about the same on Yahoo. On Google, it's about 365th.

In the catagory of "all good things come to those who wait", I bought 100 shares of Apple stock for $35/share, about 15 years ago. It's been an interesting ride. Lately, it's actually turned into a reasonable investment. It's increased in value by about 5-fold, about 11% a year for the last 15 years. I could have bought about a year ago and gotten the same return, just a lot faster. But I wouldn't have enjoyed those exhilirating roller coaster-like drops that I experienced when the dot com bust came.

Well, enough of that. Time to go hang shirts.

Monday, February 07, 2005

Hi there!

For all of you out there anxiously awaiting my each and every word each day, relax. I'm still alive. It's just hard to find something to say each and every day. But it's time to try to start again. Well that's all you get for now. Bye.