St. Lucia: Pics from my recent trip

One of the best stops on the cruise that my wife and I recently took was St. Lucia.  This is a beautiful little island that is a rainforest mountain rising out of bright blue water.  It's a place that my wife and I are considering buying a vacation home/villa at.  Here's a couple of pics.

Have a great Friday.  I'm planning on posting an overall market recap this weekend.

TLT

My New Valentine

Valentine One that is. I've wanted one for a while and I finally bit the bullet and ordered a Valentine One Radar/Laser detector. I've heard great things about this model and this company in general and I'm looking forward to seeing how well it works.Recently I got a new car (new used car) that is quite a bit faster than what I'm used to so I figured this would be a great investment. With a price tag of roughly $400, this thing will pay for itself if it saves me from one speeding ticket. The Valentine One is supposed to be the best for early detection and it has a couple of cool features. For one, it tells you how many different signals it's picking up, like multiple cops, it tells you what type of radar is being picked up and it even informs you of the direction the signal is coming from (like front, behind, side). All very cool sounding features that seem practical and useful.

I must admit, I was out driving at speeds up to 115 mph within an hour of getting this yesterday..although I'm not recommending that to anyone...just wanted to open up my car a little and see how it does at those speeds.

One last thing about this detector and company that I like is that they provide a very informative booklet with the detector. The booklet does a great job of breaking down what radar is and is not and what the detector will and won't do. This box is not a magical device that saves you from all speeding tickets and this company does not present it in that manner. I like that and I think that the way this company provides a great and easy to follow booklet to teach what is practical and what is unrealistic lends the company credibility.

I'll post an update in a month or two to follow up with a review of the radar/laser detector.

It's been a crazy market..hope you guys have traded well (and I hope you've been watching/trading LVS..wow).

TLT

A Lost Friday

This afternoon was a very unproductive afternoon, despite the fact that I have lots of work to do. Oh well...I think my subconscious already knows that I'm working all weekend anyways, so it made me want to slack off a little this afternoon. The only great thing about this afternoon was making the video below.

I had my boss watch a video and we recorded his reaction with my computer's webcam (pretty popular thing these days). If you have to ask what the video is, then you're not going to get the joke anyway...there are hundreds of similar ones on youtube just search "reaction." For what it's worth, here it is:


Have a good weekend.
TLT