The Dow in Euros, Again
Posted in Financial, Politics March 19th, 2008 by joedelta

Back in November 2006 the Dow hit an all-time-high, and I wrote a post suggesting that things might not be as rosy as they seemed.  I’ve been getting lots of email recently asking me to update that chart of the Dow in Euros.

Foolishly, I failed to save my original data, so it doesn’t match up with the previous graph, but here are the last ten years of the DJIA in Euros:

It’s not really at the lowest point in the last ten years, but it’s close.

House Reconstruction
Posted in Personal March 18th, 2008 by joedelta

We’ve been doing some work on the house recently, which means we start tearing rotten stuff down, digging deeper and deeper until we get to something that’s not rotten, and then replacing it with fresh, clean, structural stuff.

Before:

After:

We’ve got windows that don’t let wind and water in, but open and close. Neat!

Pro-Life Jelly Belly
Posted in Personal March 8th, 2008 by joedelta

If this isn’t a sign from God, then He just isn’t communicating via defective foodstuffs:

How much do you think we could sell this for on eBay?

Oh, never mind — the girls ate it.  We’re going to Hell.