The beginning of a short trading week, the market will be closed for Independence Day and although the actual holiday is July 4th Friday July 3rd is observed. This market just can’t make it’s mind up and as a result my account was down $299 dollars last week. We’ll have to wait and see what happens this week.

I had no trades last week trades.

My investments, 50 Dow Chemical Co (DOW) shares, 100 Allied Irish Banks PLC (AIB) shares, 400 Citigroup (C) shares, 500 Fannie Mae (FNM) shares and 1500 American International Group Inc (AIG) shares.

The first half of 2009 will be history pretty soon and just like that we are halfway through the year. Stocks have been acting up as of late and as a result all of my investments have stagnated. I am so looking forward to next year but in the meantime we have to deal with what is left of this one.

The economic situation here in California is pretty bad, the unemployment rate is the highest it has ever been since 1941 and to top it all off we have idiots running the place.

Taxes on sales and income have already been raised because lets face it, we the people have to pay for idiot’s mistakes, I am sure that I don’t have to tell you who those idiots are.

A couple of days ago we, employees, found out that there is a plan, has not been approved yet, to cut pay by 4% and some other nice stuff such as unpaid holidays and furlough days. Hey, you reap what you sow that book says, so get comfortable and start reaping California.

Last week started badly and by Thursday I thought that the week was going to end up really badly but I am glad that it didn’t. Things picked up on Thursday and Friday and as a result my account was only down $438.50 and since it could have been a lot more than that I am going to just move on.

I had no trades last week trades.

My investments, 50 Dow Chemical Co (DOW) shares, 100 Allied Irish Banks PLC (AIB) shares, 400 Citigroup (C) shares, 500 Fannie Mae (FNM) shares and 1500 American International Group Inc (AIG) shares.

My Sunshine it’s out sick and I am going to have to take her to see the doctor. The one thing that really has me worried right now it’s the fact that one of my main business plans it’s in there and if the doctor tells me that Sunshine it’s not coming back and that the only way that I can get all my data back is by doing a hard drive recovery I am going to be pissed.

If that is the case then I am guilty as charged, all I had to do was back up everything but did I ever do that?, I think we know the answer to that question. This I do know, as soon as Sunshine gets well, if she gets well, I am backing up everything and making a habit of it.