Looking at my portfolio

I don't know when my last check in was so I'm not even going to ATTEMPT to claim a how many month journey this is. For all the stocks I had last year the 3 that remain are Sirius XM satellite radio, E-trade financial and FMCC(formerly freddie mac)

This is a recounting of stocks that I OWN and I OWN only this is not a recommendation for purchase nor do past gains foretell future results

One of these days I'm just gonna go ahead and figure out a macro for that, maybe make it flashing. Anyway disclaimer on the blog, yup disclaimer right up above okay anyway lets star with the "Homer"

SiriusXM Satellite radio(Siri:Nasdaq) for a stock that I took a chance on at .13 cents a share even being "down" today at 1.44(if I would have done this last week I would have been bragging about it being 1.55 a share but I forgot to do it again so meh a home run is a home run) but that's $1.31 a share more then I paid for it, more then a 1.00 a share in the money(how much I paid for the amount of shares I purchased + brokerage fees minus how much I would make if I sold it today). This was a long term investment when I made it, I got lucky there were no reverse stock splits(grr we'll talk about that with the next stock), the stock didn't cater and as it seems to be strengthening it's brand now my only decision is when do I want to exit. Personally THIS is what you hope for as an investor a stock to have made enough money that you aren't worried about how long you gotta wait to get your money back you just wait to decide how much profit you want to make.

E-trade financial (ETFC: Nasdaq) now some may see E-trade at 15+ a share and be like yay homerun, eeeeh wrong answer. Etrade pulled a reverse stock split a few months ago. A stock split is basically a company makes an announcement there are going to "dilute" the amount of shares they have out in the market. So for every share that already exists they are going to create X amount more. and X is the split so if it 2-1 for every 1 share of their stock you own you now have 2. Well a reverse stock split is the exact opposite, to STRENGTHEN a companies position (stock price) they are going to buy back X-amount of shares and eliminate them from existance. And anybody else who owns shares current holdings will be reduced by the amount of the ration, in etrades case it was 10-1. As the two links I provided will show it is all about the share price if a share price is too high(and the company wants more investors) they will divide their shares (thus as I said diluting the price) making it easier for people to buy more. If they have a low share price (or are being threatened with delistment basically being kicked off a major exchange NYE, Nasdaq, S&P) to make the share price look better the reduce the number of shares out their thus increasing the price. Doesn't add any value to me and just made it harder for me to cash in profits later if say I didn't want to COMPLETELY exit my position but I did want to profit take. So yeah it's up but it's not REALLY up.

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Company (FMCC: OTC bulletin board) Remember that delisting I talked about yeah it happened to freddy mac. The housing market deteriorated some more and while they aren't dead(benefits of being a government run publicly traded company *shrug*) lets just say all the people who made a boat load in the mortgage bubble are now asking for freddie and his sister fannie to be put to death. Now I can choose to sell(like I did with GM) and take another loss forward(though just like GM and ford that loss ain gonna be enough, I ain complaining the fact that I don't have enough loss to cover my  potential gains when I sell Sirius isn't a bad thing in my eyes) and be like oh well thats a couple whatever bucks down the drain(I don't have my purchase price sheet in front of me), or I can double down and hope it pulls a Sirius, or I can do nothing. I'm in a do nothing sort of mood right now. I mean yeah 100 shares at .36 cents is like 50+ bucks after I pay the commission on it which you know isn't terrible, but I don't see the housing market improving just yet(just like I didn't see it getting horribly worse either I thought it was gonna remain stagnant for a while so yes the market makes a genius out of you with one stock and a fool with another) so I'll have to be in a good mood to double down in the case of freddie, or even getting back into fannie(or both).

Technically thanks to Sirius my investment portfolio is way up(just like ford had done to it last year) so my spiel about "taking a chance" is already hedged but then again I haven't sold Sirius yet so all that money I am counting is still imaginary at the moment. Potential gains are potential gains, and call me greedy if you want but I'm not selling Sirius this year unless in the next month or so it gets north of 5 bucks. Okay Investment update blog done

Meh previous title was too melodramatic

I was gonna title this "Ooooh Nooo! The world is gonna end primal didn't do a morning post" but the ham on me is either sleeping (lucky bastard) or else just wasn't feeling it.

Favorite thing about loading a computer:

When having mismatched memory installed causes your board to go AS(haywire use your imagination). It keeps getting later and later in the day. Today has been pretty boring, I've trained troops in Evony Age II, in kingdoms of Camelot, have ignored my fish on tagged, and have had a nice conversation with a good friend about the stupidity of shaming a young to preteen girl into having a child. (By the way anybody who is legal and gets somebody underage pregnant deserves to be under the jail)

So yeah goofing off wise this has been a pretty productive day, work wise not so much. I've even drained my cell battery down to two bars(about to run and plug it in now). Really don't have my mind wrapped around much right now. Thinking of going to make lunch, possibly more of my delicious buffalo strips(you wish you could taste this sauce perfect bite to it with just a hint of *this information has been stricken as it is proprietary information*). Think we have a couple of wraps left if not guess I could make a salad.

Its mid season so thursday night football starts. That's about it just popped in my head really ain thought much about this pre pre weekend edition. Like I said was goofin off hadn't blogged yet and want to kinda keep the flow going just in case later on tonight I'm not in a blogging mood. I mean looking at how much and what I've blogged about its doubtful but as we know capricorns are mercurial by nature and if we know anything about me I AM a Capricorn (CAPS ROCK) so somedays just gotta head of my natural tendencies.

Aiight putting another one to bed holla back lata

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but for a year and an 's

It seems me and someone else had the same thoughts in mind when it came to naming a website. The difference her name is Primal ponderings and mine of course has the 's after the primal. Now I know I got all bent out of shape with the gamer who has my nom de plume but this is a mother, who seems to be chronicling her excercise/weight loss goals. I'm territorial not heartless, granted it may cause me to go ahead and pay blogger $10 so that I can lock the url down for my site name.

Now I know I know, I'm a black guy, she appears to be a white female somehow someway this is gonna all come down to some black guy lusting after white female flesh. Yeah sorry I just thought as she is doing something not really close to what I am doing(granted I am doing a little bit of everything here so yes there are probably a few places where we overlap), and is in no way shape or form bashing me, my site, or you know the way I am running my site, why not be nice. I mean I could use the Karmic grace for what I'm gonna do the second I FINALLY get to go to best buy and get black ops. I'm telling you this is punishment for what I don't know but this is like the 2nd day in a row since it came out that I have been working past best buy closing hours.

Now some may be saying "but primal all you did was put down 5 bucks" yes I put down 5 bucks but that 5 bucks was worth 500 best buy points and thus a nice little certificate in the mail that I can use off future gaming. I should have found a way to put it all down so all I had to do was just find a way to sneak over there and pick it up, but now I tried to do it the damn quick way. It's a lot easier to convince someone to allow to you go gallivanting off when all you have to do is walk in and walk out then when they have to wait for you to stand in a line. Or at least I know I'm that way and know a few other folks who are that way. So thus at the moment I am at patience is a virtue stage and of course I'm not getting to drive that fun little RV car of death. I'm serious don't let me get that kill streak I will find you and blow you to smithereens, kingdom come, atoms and protons. I love seeing things go boom, thats why I store up some of my carpet bombing kill streaks and send them all after you at once, yes because I'm EVIL, how many times I got to say it.

But yeah lady with your little daughter in the picture blogging about your exercise program I am not gonna be a douche about the blog name, now if you are also a gamer all bets are off during black ops play. By the way all means all means all, we do not tea bag anymore (boo hiss) but I can chase you down with rolling RV death. Besides if somebody wants to start something ahem look at my first blog and her first blog yup no contests I got a WHOLE year and almost 100 blogs here on the PONDERINGS of the 's clan so who's been pondering and who's been puttering? I mean it is an AWESOME name (shameless self plug I rarely do them so let me have my moment K :p) so why be so stingy with it.

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This is to see how a picture would look if one day I so happened to see something:wild, crazy, unbelievable(unbeweavable), exciting, exhasperating, just Whoa that I felt I needed to share.

I have no clue how this is gonna look or work out so basically this is a guinea pig blog. Of what oh yeah that's my lunch. No NORMALLY I wouldn't cook my burgers and fries in the same pan(especially as I'm trying to eat less greasy fries) but this is me being a bit lazy. So burgers and fries in the same pan, just for me(none for you :p). I know I should have taken a better picture(damn my jersey snuck out I almost typed pixture) but again guinea pig, one shot.

I mean if it sucks royally I'll just have to figure out some other way to do it, but I'm hoping it works or at least works as a decent template to start from, meet a brother half way and we golden.
Hmm really didn't have much else to say plus well gotta go eat said food soon so
Lata
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Little orphan Primal

Have I ever mentioned how much I HATE WAITING. I would rather be bored than waitin, or even rushed. But BORED and WAITING, man kill me.

Wth right? Where did this come from why am I all suicidal because I'm stuck waiting. Because instead of riding shotgun today I was riding 3rd seat, the company is 2 vehicles down and basically I'm odd man out. Which usually is okay unless somebody gets a case of the "dropsies" and by dropsies I mean leave me at a site where I can't do a damn thing. I mean yeah yeah this customer USUALLY complains that his system ain workin and there are no errors, glitches, or issues. And basically we walk in, nothing is wrong we walk out in like 15 minutes.

So why oh why did I get dropped off, yes it took me like 30 minutes to diagnose, which is fine. It also allowed me to use my conflict resolution skills to go ahead and diffuse a situation, granted it cost me 6 bucks but what can ya do right. I was thinking of recounting some old stories about my old "misnamed" dog Buddy.

Buddy was a cocker spaniel, little larger than your average cocker and after we had our "come to jesus" moment, to the fam he lived up to his name. But the squirrels and neighborhood kids called him "aaaaaaaargh quit playin get ya dog man". I have a picture of him somewhere, its a red eye picture which suites him just fine.

I might recount stories of old budrick(no not his real name, nor was dumb dog stupid puppy but sometimes I called him both), Minnie(mutley, useless, go away, mom can I please step on her, grrr get out the kitchen Sr.), and Brute(bobute, I hate you, don't eat people, moose dog). Buddy is gone, been gone for a long time 10 years now, minnie is just under 11, brute is like 3. Buddy is the only one I call my dog though.

Anyway another morning edition put to bed, hope everybody gets over the hump

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Gong! The unknown comedian got me

Maaaaayne 10 minutes ago I had the worlds biggest smirk on my face I was cruisin. My errand was run, we was in the car, my bladder was empty, and life was good I forgot I had a service call out in East Bumble.

Damn, I swear just when my day seemed to be getting brighter. Sokay I'm still ridin shotty so basically I'm here, I'm riding, I'm tweetin, textin, and blogging. I'm gonna make this day into somethin if it kills me. I have a few blogs floating through my head now due to todays craziness so I may be a blogging fool again. I may even revisit some more anecdotes from the past, I guess I can be said to be somewhat stingy with my details.
It ain nothing personal, but if you don't ask how do I know what you wanna know? I'm a mind full of stories, fantasies, experiences, fears, failures and successes. As my father said to me last night "nothing that happens today hasn't happened to someone else in the past, it just feels more intense because its us and we haven't figured out how to deal with it yet". I feel that, sometimes you can't see the light yet and don't realize its just because your eyes are closed while stumbling along in the dark.

No matter what until it doesn't, the sun will rise tomorrow. You may not see that sunrise, but if you do remember its there. There is another day to move closer to your goal, become better at your craft, live a dream or fix a previous mistake. Life ain nothing like it, and its the sum of the experiences not just what happened today or yesterday.

Heavily weight your positive experiences and learn from your negative ones. And make sure to learn the right lessons, because negativity will try and poison the lesson. It will wrap you up in more pain and deception, trying to choke the life out of you and your dreams but you can choose to not let it.

Everyday is a challenge and if you pass I the next challenge has even better rewards. (Hug) there's a hug if ya need a moment, because we ALL need a moment sometimes, but don't get bogged down look how far you have come. Keep at it, you're alnost there, if you can breathe you can get there. Sometimes it ain about finishing first but finish the best way YOU can.

Holla at ya boy, I'll be out here somewhere

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Back after a few technical difficulties

This morning has been a comedy of errors, it's just turning into one of those days. Hopefully I can pull off getting to Best Buy later, Newbs need to be shot. Especially blood shot bleary eyed newbs who stayed up all night waiting to pick up a copy of a game they could have A pre ordered and B waited til later on today to crack open.

I mean yeah I want my scalps too, I want to be involved in all the C4 exploding, bullet firing goodness. But in my wise old age I know past probably a short learning curve it's an update of an older game, a new installment not the first coming of a brand new epic. The HUD probably hasn't changed much, nor the reticle, a few of the weapons have probably changed and the accessories but again short learning curve.

So it ain gametime for me yet, I still got work today(though work is taking forever to really get started) it's like we've been knocked out of our normal orbit and it's kinda wierding us all out. Not really a huge amount to say mainly because I gotta hit the "office" just want to do my usual morning update, hello and how ya doin.

To all my international visitors *Wave*, hey nice to meet ya hope you enjoy the ramblings of this crazy American. To all my fellow americans, HOW BOUT THEM COWBOYS

Sorry I couldn't help it I haven't called a single cowboy fan friend or relative to gloat but I have been holding it in so long. Yes Wade Phillips is gone from the cowboys and I may blog more in depth about that later but for now this was just a quick release of pent up gloating. I don't gloat often(unless we spanked them in a game then yes I will gloat, it's sports that is a valid and time honored part of fandom: the trash talk), but in this case hey it is slightly warranted, you know with the whole "COWBOYS super bowl champs the rest of yall can just pack it in" talk we have to endure at the start of EVERY season.