Brent Nyitray
Fairlington Blade
Let the mutherfuker burn!
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Kevin S. Willis
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markinaustin
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yellojktFull on snow storm here in the northeast, at least in southwestern CT. Good day to hang inside, watch college football, and blog. October 30th…are you kidding me? I blame global warming. And Wall Street. Probably the fault of weather derivatives.
Congrats to St. Louis. I wonder what the odds were on Sep 1 of the Cards winning the series. And if anyone made the bet. Still, quite a ways for the Cards to go before they catch the Yanks for most World Series championships. But they are inching closer.
Have at it.
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C'mon, Scott – you know the weather's Obama's fault! ;)Congrats to the Cardinals. It's hard to be a Ranger's fan.Stay warm today, Scott, and everyone else in the storm's path. I'm off to my sons' end-of-season baseball party and then it's date night tonight with my dear hubby!
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Snow started in earnest about 90 minutes ago. Already about 1 inch on the ground. And it just keeps coming.
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Back from breakfast tacos with my twin granddaughters, age 2.7, and a trip to Home Despot for mulch, with them in tow, I learned that my friend Jimmy died in his sleep last night.My dad died on October 28, too. When I visited him in NC in the hospital on 9-11-98, we had a sixtieth wedding anniversary party for my parents in his room, and he loved every minute of it [he was in hospice only care for colon cancer]. At the end of the day, I kissed him goodbye and said that maybe that would be the last time I would ever see him. "Not if you come back for the Series!" he said brightly. I said that was a deal and came back in October to watch the WS with him. When it came time to say goodbye again, he said it would be the last time, that he did not want to die because he still loved being with us, but that he was not afraid. When I left, he told my sister to be sure to tell my mother to get her regular hair appointment the next afternoon, but that my sister should come back. On the next afternoon, he told my sister that he was going to sleep, but that he would not be waking up, and that he wanted her to hold his hand. He did not want my mother there because he thought it would hurt both of them too much, and my sister thought about it and agreed. Then he went to sleep and died, with my sister holding his hand.Every World Series has special meaning for me.
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Very poignant story Mark. I was with both my parents when they passed and gratefully the last few days with them were filled with warmth, tears, love and long goodbyes. Sorry about your friend Jimmy.Scott, it's going to be 85 here today and we're heading out to our sons for a Halloween Party. He finally got around to making a pumpkin beer that he's unveiling this weekend. We're going as hippies, big surprise I know. Stay warm.
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Mark: GodBless your friend, your dad, your 2.7's, you, and Baseball.lms: What's a hippies?
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No idea, tao, we're just making it up as we go.
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Snow is really coming down now. Sitting here waiting to lose power..
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DC just converted to snow.Thanks for the story, Mark. My parents just visited here. I honestly never thought they'd come out again. My dad has CPOD and is on full time oxygen. It's a long drive from KC to DC. They managed to do it just fine and we had a fabulous tie. VIsited several memorials (Korean War, WWII, and MLK) and had a spectacular lunch at Et Voila! in Bethesda. The mussel burger there is something special. I hope it's not their last visit, but if it is, it was a special one.Well, should get back to the kids.BB
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Errk. Fabulous TIME, not tie. I once had a fabulous tie that I picked up at Filene's Basement in Boston. Sadly, I left it at Union Station when I came here for my interview 8 1/2 years ago. Fortunately, I still have my tie that I wore when I got married. BB
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Re: our previous discussion of Wall Street banks and whether or not there would ever be an E-Bay type system for IPO's:So Who Needs Wall Street? "So Who Needs Wall Street?Barry Silbert of SecondMarket is innovating around America's broken public capital markets.By MARY KISSEL'No entrepreneurs I know aspire to be a public-company CEO anymore."If that seems like a startling claim, it's all the more so coming from a bright-faced 35-year-old sitting a stone's throw from Merrill Lynch's famous charging bull. But Barry Silbert can back up his words because he's making money on them. He's the founder and CEO of SecondMarket, an online trading platform that pairs buyers and sellers of such financial assets as mortgage-backed securities and especially the stock of companies that haven't gone public.Depending on your point of view, he is either saving capitalism from financial regulators or trying to evade them. Either way, he's an example of an entrepreneur finding a way to help America's other beleaguered capitalists find capital."
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Watching the Penn State game and it's dumping there, too.MSU lost to those (&#$)$^_(*$Q(& Cornhuskers, dang it!
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I guess they want to compete with the OTC bulletin board with more products and better accounting standards. I suspect small exchanges like this could work for tiny deals, but the Groupons of the world will still rely on underwriters in order to get the guaranteed money and the research coverage.I would be curious how the regulators handle it, how settlement works, etc.
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Mark, I honestly don't know what to say. I am very moved by the story about your dad. Also, sorry about Jimmy.Scott & Brent and anybody else in storms path (you too FB), stay warm.
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Mark, lovely piece about your Dad, and what a great memory for you to have. He was clearly a wise man (and I suspect that has rubbed off on you).For Jimmy, Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest in peace.Amen.
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Thanks, all, for your kind words and I also join in wishing our northeast contingent to be safe and dry.
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Ah, I also send best wishes to the noreastern folks in the storm's path. My niece and hubby are on a driving trip to Goshen, NY, to visit her bro (my nephew). I'm glad they arrived last night, although I think they caught parts of the storm through PA. Do we have anybody in PA and does that make sense?And Mark, thank you for sharing that story. I think the older we get the more of those kinds of tales we have. I wish I had recognized some of mine earlier in life. Prayers for Jimmy.Boomer Sooner!
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Power still on for me, although apparently half the town is not so lucky. Trees/branches down all over…snow on trees that haven't lost their leaves is a bad thing.
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scott, good to hear that you have power, and thanks for letting us know. I wish all the NE folks would check in as well.
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It's really just a moderate snow storm…no big deal if it was January. But with leaves on the trees, and relatively warm temps, the wet snow is weighing heavy on tree branches. Bad for power lines.I was out and about a bit today. Syracuse playing like a middle school team vs Louisville was enough to drive me out of the house. Road crews did a pretty good job clearing up the branches/trees blocking roads. My daughter got her license literally this morning, and so was supposed to be (finally!) self-mobile by afternoon, but the snow de-railed that plan. Still had to cart her around.Anyway, the fireplace is going strong, and we're all holed up now. Ready for a movie and some games. I'll check in again later tonight.
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