Lights and other things in various tunnels

Dusty's happiness index is up lately.

Gold stocks have started to take off a fair bit and I'm finally breakeven with investments for the year despite a godawful start where I managed to time everything wrong and get hit by random variance including British oil tax raises vs Enquest, a bunch of crap including a collapse in a mine with Endomines and a bunch of margin raises in silver over at comex. Unless Paul "Alien Invaider" Krugman, who actually said he wanted to build up earth's defences for an alien invasion to fix the economy, and has it right and higher random aggregate demand will fix everything or Ron Paul manages to be president (bloody f-ing likely!) I'm fairly sure that I'll be able to make a little money now when I've started to get the hang of how to analyse mining companies and such, at least at a very basic level.

I'm up a couple of bi's playing very few hands (two short sessions) this month, but I'll probably start to take it more seriously next week. Might just make it a slow start with like a short session per day or something but at the very latest by the end of the month I hope that I'll be back in some kind of reasonable grinding mood. Last month did not suck as much as it could have, but ohh god the timing of it. This will be my first "lost" year of poker unless something really weird/heatery happens but on the other hand I think I needed that. Get some perspective, learn other stuff etc.

Just heard that my soonish-to-be-brother in law and his wife/fiancée will come visit in a month or so. I really like them both so that feels really good. Only thing that annoys me is that there's no UFC PPV that I could order and watch with the guy. He's into MMA and such and it'd be cool to watch some nice event with him. Oh well.

Yesterday me and my girl went an visited the Swedish game maker, poker author, authority on everything and general awesomeness that is Dan Glimne. Bought two big boxes of sci/fi books from him and got a few games he designed as a bonus. I'll post a pic of the signed one when I get battery in my android. The guy has a robot lawn mover that moves the lane by itself. It's so damn cool!