This very well could be a short-term reaction to the last few trading sessions which have seen gains in the Dow but losses in the S&P 500 and Nasdaq. Or it could be an early warning of a dramatic market correction much more amplified than the one experienced in February. As the saying goes, it’s better to be safe than sorry, so it’s our decision to re-allocate the model portfolios into cash for the time being.

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Anyway, I flew in to Islip on February 28th for a two day class, followed by a full week from March 5th through the 9th. There were only 3 people, including me, in the first class. I found out on Friday that in the week-long programming class, there would only be myself and a co-worker from our Utah office. That was good news, because most of the time, there’s at least one person in a class that slows down the pace with way too many questions. Well, on Sunday night, I heard from my co-worker, who spent the weekend in the hospital and wouldn’t be coming to the week-long class. So it’s just me and the instructor.
So today is Day 3 (Wednesday), and I got out of class 2 hours early because we’re already at the end of the Day 4 material. I haven’t been rushing — in fact, we’ve even taken time to do some experimentation with the class material; it’s just that this stuff is fairly easy, and without other people in the class asking questions, it just naturally moves more quickly.

So it looks like I may end up getting done on Thursday, which means I can try to find an alternate flight on Friday instead of Saturday.
I started phase II yesterday..but all weekend, I truly felt like maybe this is not the diet for me. Its not that I miss certain foods per se, its just that i feel like i am not losing a lot of weight 4lbs..in fact today i feel like i’ve gained weight.

Also, and perhaps this is an whole other thread, but I do socially go out and drink usually 3x a week. I wouldn’t classify myself as an alcholic, as i don’t *need* to drink, but I do *like8 to drink..I guess its part of my socialization..going out with my friends for beer/cocktails, seeing local bands..I don’t want to do what a friend i know who was on WW did–she’d save all her points for one day for drinking and then be starving. Also, a lot of the places I go do not serve good wine. I like wine a lot, and i refuse to have a crappy class of it…

On a postive note, I definitely am eating healthier on this diet i.e more veggies, but I just don’t know. Maybe I am retaining water.
// posted by o @ 11:01 AM
7.14.2003
The class has been interesting, and I’ve learned a lot, but it’s just not possible to slow down in order to pad out the material for an additional day or more.

As for New York, this area of Long Island is a lot like Raleigh in some ways. It’s flat, has plenty of trees, and not many tall buildings. It’s UNlike Raleigh in that there’s nothing to do around here. There’s an Applebee’s and a McDonalds across the street from the Hotel, but this stretch of road has very little else. I drove around over the weekend looking for something to do, but came up empty.

I considered taking the train into Manhattan on Saturday — and I regret not doing to, because it was the warmest day — but decided against it.

Like Janine, I also tend to put the Do-Not-Disturb sign on my door. I travel with a lot of electronics (laptop, old 4th generation iPod, PSP (comes in handy at the airport and on flights) and a portable media player for watching movies), and I have to leave this stuff in my hotel room while I’m in class, so I’d rather keep my room off-limits to hotel staff. I don’t actually think the cleaning staff would steal anything, but I’d just rather not take my chances. After only a couple of days of having the DND sign on the door, the cleaning people kept bugging me about needing towels. I don’t know about everybody else, but I don’t go through towels like they were napkins. Those things are reusable.

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The nice thing about being in a class by yourself (haha) is that you can work at your own pace without having to wait for other people to catch up (or to work faster to catch up, depending on how dumb you are slowly you work). The bad thing about being in a class by yourself is that you can work at your own pace, and that often means that you end up blowing through the course material much faster.
At Tuesday’s close over 55% of the NYSE volume was on the down side while over 75% of the Nasdaq volume was down. Yesterday, downside volume had declined to 38% on the NYSE and to 39% on the NASDAQ. Both the short-term moving averages of Breadth and Volume have been declining for the past week and are on the verge of crossing into negative territory. It will most likely take more than a little good news on the M&A front to turn these indicators around now that earnings season is just about over and most of the big boys will be heading to the Hampton’s soon.