The Prodigal Blog

December 23, 2009

Just over a month ago I changed the location of my blog after I blew up the old blogspot template with some good old fashioned fat fingered tampering, all done without the safety net of a back up file. Well my lesson has been learned and I now have a new Wordpress template. I’m still [...]

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A Car-less Recovery

December 20, 2009

So now the economic recovery has been in full swing for almost a  quarter I was shocked to hear that GM failed to find a buyer for their Saab division. They could not find a buyer even at the minuscule price point of $1. Just goes to show that maybe the recovery is not quite [...]

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Shopping with Sidewalker #5

December 16, 2009

My Shopping with Sidewalker feature this month may be a day late, but as you can see from the total below, it is not a dollar short. In stark contrast to the words of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke telling all that will listen that inflation is a non-existent threat, my grocery bill has gone up [...]

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Whose Nose is Growing?

December 9, 2009

As I emptied the mail box at Castle Sidewalker this morning I was disturbed to see a letter from our medical insurance company. The reason for my angst? Quite simply I have never received a letter from them that has either been a refund or a premium reduction. And sure enough this letter did not [...]

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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

December 7, 2009

The other day when I dropped Sidewalker Jr. off at school I happened to notice that the classroom had a television in it. Having been schooled in a TV free classroom environment I was a little taken aback by the presence of the of the mind-numbing black box in the very nexus of Jr.’s [...]

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Texting Times

December 2, 2009

The visit of the Senior Sidewalkers is almost over I’m sad to say. Not only has Sidewalker Jr. and Little Miss Sidewalker loved their time with the Grandparents, but the golden old ‘ens also found 11 cents to add to the Sidewalker Fund. I noted that the pre-trip visit to the optometrist really paid off [...]

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Month End Report November ‘09

December 1, 2009

Days since inception: 699
Cash balance: $24.91 (all time)
Cents per day: 3.5637(since inception)
Predicted day for $1,000,000: Sunday 26th August 78,835 AD
11/30/2009
$1,000,000
= 846.66 oz of Gold @ $1181.10 (as per Nymex close near month)
= 12,939.96 barrels of oil @ $77.28 (as per Nymex close Light Sweet Crude near month)
= 54,068.67 oz of Silver @ $18.495 (as per [...]

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A Sidewalker’s Thanksgiving

November 26, 2009

Having grown up in England I was not too familiar with the Thanksgiving holiday until I had settled down here in the USA for a few years. You may ask as I’m not American what do I know about the traditional Thanksgiving holiday? Well I did follow in the footsteps of the Pilgrim Fathers, the [...]

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‘Ground Control to Major Sidewalker…’

November 23, 2009

I seem to have uncovered the brutal truth that Luke Sidewalker is not immune to the forces of gravity.  During the summer it seemed that my star was rising. I had a story published in the Jersey Journal about me written by Troy Dreier. I had written a series of articles for FiLife about my [...]

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Sidewalker on the Silver Screen?

November 18, 2009

If I remember correctly Gordon Gekko once said in the film Wall Street,”Lunch is for whimps”. Well Mr. Gecko, I beg to differ, I find lunch rather agreeable especially when I miss breakfast because Sidewalker Jr. is dragging his feet on the way to school.
Despite being philosophically opposed to most things Gordon Gekko stands for, [...]

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