Well Here We R

Guess I've been busy living and so forgot to write any thing but, things have slowed a bit.
Truthfully I had no idea that anything was going wrong until the stock market crashed. And that seems odd as I have NYT and WP ssending me news letters about this and that. I can't recall any thing about illness in China. It must have been lightly reported.
When the market dropped I was sure it was my fault. You see I am a chicken about investing money ever sense 9\11. A sane and prudent man, somebody wrote, keeps his money in a can. Or a money market these days. Anyhow for some reason, late at night, I decided to put some dough in a Mutual Fund of solid reputation.
The next day, seriouisly, the very next day, the dow fell a thousand points and kept on. And I just laughed and laughed as my luck is well established as crap.
Then I noticed something else was going on. "The end of the world as we know it" is an appropret quote.