John, I have some confessions to make:
Last night, before this horrible day happened, I slammed into my chair and busted it asunder, knocking into the file cabinet, tilting it and sending the globe thru space and time, along with the lamp. When the globe and I ended up on the floor it was facing Italy straight up!
Wait there's more...This morning's Murcury front page article from JPL in Pasadena, first results from Galileo flyby of Ganymede - An ice covered world with volcanos belching snow! James Head (must be related to Howard Head of Head Ski Co fame) team member of NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory said "We haven't slept in 10 days" "Imagine skiing down those slopes!" "And its winter all the time!" I kid you not. VOLCANOS BELCHING SNOW! Just guess where the Italian Olympic ski team will want to establish their new all-year training facility ?
Wait there's still more. This farmer buddy of mine - been my skiing buddy since 1971 when we met in a blinding snowstorm, he grows this funny kind of lettuce - ridiccio or some such name. Got special seed husbanded for 100s of years by a north Italian family. Brought here to Salinas to grow on his farm. Now he has a corner on the US ridiccio market. What's it take to ski? - dough, bread, moola, green stuff, lettuce! And the water! The Salinas acquifer is an enormous unground river, could even connect to the Milan water supply! His farm is right on top of it. And the Lalandians ? They probably already have the prime resorts staked out on Ganymede and don't want to share. So he's buying xico while I'm dialing the margin desk to explain what I'm gonna do today.
So there you have it, my chair busting act completely nullified all of Janice's valiant efforts of 10 days ago when J. Head quit sleeping and this whole market mess started its horrible unraveling. I now kneel before this terminal. Can we not fast forward to earnings release ? No need for me to keep that long put off appointment with the proctologist anymore.
Apologeticly yours, Mike |
