Buy.

* Remember the old adage: buy low, sell high. Right now, prices are going down. You can afford more, and when the value increases, so will the return on your investments. And in the long run, the market always goes higher.

** I am not a professional financial analyst. I don't play one on TV. I didn't even sleep in a Holiday Inn last night.

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1 GAH! That sounds an awful lot like "well it's BOUND to go higher now" logic. Yes, the market swells. But individual issues are another story. The dramatic oversimplification of the approach that's served me so well over the last five years is: "Buy when it's going up then sell when it stops"

Posted by: Mad William Flint at January 22, 2008 09:24 AM (g/0ur)

2 My helpful tip is to have a portion of your portfolio short at all times because when prices are falling, you're making money. I can say this as a professional but not as someone who actually has money to invest. Which is why I'm perfectly calm today!

Posted by: dawn at January 22, 2008 09:48 AM (HT2EY)

3 I'm calm too, and I've got a bit in my 401k. That's for the long term, so I'm not going to fret over the cycles until I get close enough to tapping it to make it matter. I know people who check their 401k performance weekly. Those people are whack.

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If you get pulled over for speeding by a cop, you can try to talk him out of a ticket. But if he looks in your back seat and sees this, you might as well not even try.

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Her name is Butterscotch, and she's a one year old doe (picture to come later). We're fostering her for now, but our single rabbit Ozzie has been showing signs of loneliness lately, so we've decided to try to pair them up. It doesn't always work, and it doesn't always go as smoothly as it did with our other pair, Fred and Java, but we'll give this a shot and if it doesn't work out, then we have other young ladies to try.

The rabbit rescue we work with is Bunny Lu. Give 'em a visit and hit their donation jar if you feel so inclined.

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But rather than making you refresh repeatedly to find it and driving up my site stats and inflating my ego, I'll just post it here too.

I've got another one in mind, but it involves some tricky photography and I just haven't felt ambitious enough to take it on.

By the way, there are now 42 Rocket Jones banners, plus three special occasion ones that I trot out for Christmas, Halloween and my birthday. Thanks again to all the folks who sent entries into the banner contest. If you like a banner, odds are good that it wasn't my work.

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I was just sitting here thinking about something and my eyes kinda went out of focus. The retro-style background on Rocket Jones works just like one of those magic eye pictures and if you're looking at it the right way, it goes 3-D!

Would you believe that I did that on purpose?

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God is male. We know this because boobs come in pairs.

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The Mets just signed outfielder Angel Pagan.

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Something or other is happening in Iowa today, and that's the only thing I can think of that I might possibly care about.

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Mookie adores it, so she found a place nearby that got rave reviews and treated me to dinner. She says the food there was really, really good.

I tried several things, but I discovered that I just don't like Thai food.

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I've mentioned before that Ozzie, one of our house rabbits, "thumps" with his back legs when he's not happy about something. He's thumping away right now in his cage.

Liz and daughter Robyn are in Florida to visit Mom and Dad. Apparently Ozzie is feeling neglected because nobody is in the sewing room with him. I put the stereo on in there, but he's used to Liz sitting in there where he can see her.

This is going to get old real quick.

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As promised yesterday, here's what you can expect from Rocket Jones for the next year (or eternity).

This one amuses me greatly, boys and girls. Expect to see it again.

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