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My life is complete

After years of yearning, research, second guessing, and just plain waiting, we finally joined the real world and got a new 42" plasma HDTV. I have serched high and low for the right TV for the right price and had my heart set on the Panasonic 42". With the new 2007 line coming out soon, the 2006 TV's have plunged in price which made this purchase even more inviting. But, I was not the only one with these thoughts as sales came, the inventory left. Costco finally got some new TV's in and had 4 remaining at 3pm on Monday. I though plenty of time, I just go down in the next couple of days and buy it.

Well after agonzing over when and should we buy, we finally went that night and there were only 2 left and I got one. Below is a picture Gabbie snapped in my shear joy of finding a box at Coscto. Of course the TV box was bigger than I expected so I had to leave Gabbie and Liana at Costco, take the TV home, and then come back and get them..... what a horrible Father I am.

At home, the TV is just huge! I plugged it in right away and we watched a bit of 24 in HD and life is sweet....... I'm counting the days till the first HD baseball game.

cage fight

We got Liana a larger play pen this weekend because she protested with the smaller one and we need a safe zone for her to run free. To her dismay and Rogue's delight, it separated her from him. To solve that I just put Rogue in the pen with her!

The ultimate Su household cage fight with Liana chasing Rogue and Rogue running for his life.

Note: No animals hurt during this exercise.

The Killer Box

In response to my brother Ted's blog on the Killer Plastic Storage Bin label, we decided to try it out!

Notice the yellow warning label that tells you not to enclose your child in the box that Ted referenced. Who would ever do this? I supposed if you need to stow your child away for easy transport, replace the car seat, perform a magic trick, or a give your kid a time out? Or as Liana is showing, it just might be too fun to play inside a plastic storage bin.

But remember, you child will suffocate with the lid on so don't forget to read the warning label........

Stamp Commodites and Futures

http://www.usps.com/communications/news/press/2006/pr06_031.htm

The USPS in its ultimate wisdom has decided that it will now go with a forever stamp. Yes instead of putting a 1 or 2 cent stamp to add to your old stamp, the stamp you buy today is worth a first class mailing forever. The USPS has also stated with inflation and energy costs their stamp fee has increase on average 1 cent a year.

Imagine the beauty of this. If you bought a forever stamp next year for 40 cents and held it for 1 year. The next year if that stamp is worth 41 cents you just made 1 cent for holding a stamp one year. Assuming you could sell that stamp for the same rate you made 2.5%. Now if it goes up 2 cents than you have made 5% on your investment. Hell that is almost as good as a treasury note.

So then what happens if you start trying to anticipate the costs of the USPS increasing such as union labor rates, energy, new trucks, loss of business from the internet, and increased competition from UPS and FEDex. Hell then you start selling options and create a new futures market.

Regardless of the investment option you could stockpile stamps for the rest of your life for xmas cards, bills, invites, etc..... And in 20 years you have a bunch leftover stamps, you could sell them on ebay. After 20 years and a 20 cent rise you're initial 40 cent stamp investment will be worth 60 cents. That is a 50% return on your investment. So if you put down $10,000 today for stamps you could make $15,000 in 20 years! Probably won't beat the S&P, but stamp price increases are as sure as inflation.

As the guys in my office would say lets name this great investment as "Stamp Arbitrage."

The Eye's have it

A photo array of our eyeballs!

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

My life is complete

Monday, March 26, 2007

cage fight

Thursday, March 22, 2007

The Killer Box

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Stamp Commodites and Futures

Monday, March 05, 2007

The Eye's have it