Whoever you are in New York who pooped cleared liquid/fluid and came to my web site looking for answers, I sincerely hope you found what you were looking for.

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This year marks the tenth in which I've been getting my hair cut by the same person. Mary-Anne has been giving me decent looking hair since 1999. Considering the nature of my thick, coarse, and wild hair, this is a testament to her abilities.

Starting in January, she'll be moving to another salon. It will also mark the second time I've followed her to another establishment. Among gentlemen, I don't know another dude that's been that loyal to a hair cutter. In my experience, dudes get their hair cut at the place that's most convenient at the time with whoever is available. I guess if my hair were that manageable and malleable I might do that too. As it stands, MA knows the weirdness of my hair better than anyone does, so I return to her time and again.

Here's to a decade of hair maintenance cycles!

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I've been on holidays since December 4 which means I've done a whole lot of sleeping in. Most of you know I'm a creature of the night but I've taken it to extreme lengths this month. For the last several days I've woken up close to 4pm. That would be fine and dandy if I were on say, Hong Kong time but I'm pretty sure I live in the Pacific Daylight Savings timezone.

I really need to dial in some more "conventional" sleeping times before I go back to work in two weeks.

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Just because I felt like figuratively punching myself in the junk, I re-calculated my net worth tonight. As you might recall, I did this calculation at the end of the summer when I knew I was serious about buying an apartment.

I'm not exactly sure about the current value of one of my RRSPs but roughly, I am worth about $2000 less than I was at the end of those carefree summer days, when the air was sweet and warm. That may not seem like a lot in the grand scheme of things but consider this, at the end of the summer, all my EA stock was worth approximately $8700. All that stock is now worth about $3000 (which includes additional shares I received since my last calculation). The losses on the RRSPs, I can take, they weren't as drastic, plus I've already reaped the benefits of the tax breaks. The stock on the other hand, that's a difficult one to accept. My EA stock is a mix of outright stock awards and employee purchase plan stocks. The shares from the awards will always make me money, they're pure profit because I didn't have to buy them, they were just given to me. Yes, it would have been better to sell them at $40 USD instead of the $15 USD now but I can't control that. The ESPP shares make me sad. Because I had to purchase them (albeit at a discount), they are all underwater now. If I sell any of those, I lose money on every single one of them. Ideally, I'd hold onto them until they're above water but if I need to money for a down payment, what am I to do?

Had I sold all my shares at the end of August, I'd be doing awesome right now. The only thing that makes me feel somewhat better is that though I'm worth $2000 less, aparment prices have dropped much more than that. In the end, will that matter more? I hope so.

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