Five Nickels or a Quarter?

January 6, 2010

For arguments sake let’s say you walk into a store and buy a widget for 75 cents. You dutifully hand over a dollar bill to the store owner, he then apologizes because he has no quarters or dimes and has to make change using five nickels instead. You huff and puff but except the five [...]

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Month End Report December ’09

January 3, 2010

Days since inception: 730 Cash balance: $25.78 (all time) Cents per day: 3.5315(since inception) Predicted day for $1,000,000: Sunday 29th February 79,536 AD 12/31/2009 $1,000,000 = 913.07 oz of Gold @ $1095.20 (as per Nymex close near month) = 12,600.80 barrels of oil @ $79.36 (as per Nymex close Light Sweet Crude near month) = [...]

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10 Predictions for 2010

December 31, 2009

No self-respecting blogger can let New Years Eve go by without a list of predictions for the coming year. So I hope you are sitting comfortably and enjoy reading my ‘visionary’ list. Eldorado, the lost city of Gold, is finally located and it’s location rather surprisingly is right next door to Castle Sidewalker. However the [...]

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Who am I…Who are You?

December 29, 2009

We all know what a closely guarded secret my identity is, so following on from my previous post, and to appease the budding economist in Trondheim, Norway; I’m going to try to analyze who you are and how you got here! As in, what is the profile of the average reader of Luke Sidewalker (now [...]

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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 nascent [...]

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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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