My complete and utter apologies for such an ugly ass background. I’ll change it as soon as possible. In the meantime, enjoy the wood.

Well, I did something retarded last night.

After a few drinks at a staff function, instead of crashing, I decided to make some investing decisions – with a buzz?!? I can be such a jackass.

My gut feeling said my shares in Google were dropping like a turd, so I jumped out at $181 / share. I could have sold when it was $200 / share earlier this week. Oh well. I still made a little bit. That’s not the retarded thing.

I then took all that cash from Google, and while watching MSNBC’s stock ticker, became excited about NVDA – it was up almost 20% in one day. Did I carefully investigate, research, and patiently wait as usual? Not after vodka. The daredevil on my shoulder pushed the “enter” button on my laptop and completed a transaction that would never had been made otherwise.

All through the night I dreamed of nothing other than the MSNBC dude telling me that the stock was falling with ridiculous speed, and that I would lose all of my hard earned Benjamin’s. I woke up actually dreading that it was true, only to find out that the stock didn’t budge one way or another all through the night – that’ll be the LAST time that I allow myself to get caught up in making trades with vodka goggles.

If anyone feels like doing me a favor, you could visit Photofriday and put in a vote for my photograph – at the top of their home page it says “cast noteworthy vote for ‘still life'” I’m number 28. I always dig winning something like that.

How’s that “about” page coming?