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February 23, 2006.
I (well, we. ‘We’ meaning me and Luke a bit) decided to buy the Cashflow board game on Ebay (since the retail is $200 and I figure I coulda squeezed a few bucks out of it buying it on Ebay). Well, I looked on Ebay after looking at retail stores like Amazon or Half.com for it. I looked at all the auctions and settled on a $150 auction. A few people bid on it but it was still 5 hours away. Luke suggested that I bid the highest amount I wanted to pay for it now but that seemed a little illogical. If I’m bidding my highest price 5 hours from the closing of the auction, there’s gonna be somebody else who’s willing to pay higher for it.
So my strategy is not to bid anything ’till 4 seconds before the bid is closed. If you bid more than a minute from the closing, the bidder before you will know that you are out there wanting the same thing that he/she wants and will stop at nothing (’till the price get’s too high) to beat you to the bid (that’s how I look at it at least).
So that’s why I don’t bid more than a minute before the auction is finished ’cause they will know I want it too. You could say I’m hiding in the cyber-bushes and spring out to attack/bid 4 seconds before the prey makes a run for it (if you know what I mean). It puts another spin on the whole bidding scene.
Plus, if you wait ’till the last second, you won’t have to “claim your territory” by bidding the highest amount your willing to pay. If you wait ’till the last second, you can just raise the bid by a buck instead of $20 to win.
Needless to say, I won the bid.
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February 22, 2006.
Ever since we cancelled our TV Guide subscription (it was getting to be too much like People and not enough TV) the bathroom reading material has been rather poor. I mean, before, we’d get something new to read every week! Now, I’ve been reading the same Kids Discover magazine on lungs for the past month! I mean, back then, I used to love going to the bathroom! Now, it’s “ok! what do we have here to read toda. . . oh, yeah. Lungs) I can’t bring any real good books in the throne room ’cause the moisture in the air will ruin the books. Maybe I should start getting the newspaper.
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February 21, 2006.
After going to volleyball today, I decided to quit it. I mean, I like to play volleyball a lot but I like it to be fun and spontaneous. The problem with the class I’m going to is that it’s a class. I’m supposed to “learn” to play volleyball by someone who is “teaching.” I mean that’s all fine and well but it’s a little too strict and pro for my taste. I mean they want everybody to hit the ball a certain way. I don’t hit it the way they want me to but when I hit it, the ball goes where I want it to go but it’s not “the Way” to do it and I figure that I’m not proffesionally interested in it. I just want to do it to have fun. I mean it’s a good sign your interested in it when you’re counting the minutes ’till Volleyball. It’s a bad sign when you think more about what you want to do after you get back from Volleyball (which is what I was doing).
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February 19, 2006.
Luke’s girlfriend, Phillis, came over to play music with us. We all went to the jam and her dad (who was in the area) came to the jam too. Them and the hotshot players went upstairs to have a hot jam and I stayed down stairs for the good jam.
Afterwards, we went home. Phillis’s dad and Pa and Ma talked a bit. Luke to a little nap and Phillis drank some water. I looked at the Best Karate book ’cause we’ll be testing on Saturday and I kinda wanted to be sure of some things (even though I was already sure of those things. I mean, if I wasn’t, I wouldn’t test!). Afterwards, we went downstairs and did some English wrestling (look it up in Google) I took down Phillis and Luke but I didn’t have a chance against her dad! I went kinda easy the first round ’cause I was afraid I might hurt his back (you know, it’s good to be careful) but he was solid as an ox! So, we wrestled a few times and than when Phillis and her dad wrestled, he took her to the ground but then she went down kinda hard and we heard something crack. Well, I didn’t hear that but everybody else did. She couldn’t really lift her arm very much and it looked like she broke her collarbone. Since she was cracked, Her dad took her to the Emergancy Care. Luke went too ’cause he was The Boyfriend and he has to do things like that. I stayed home.
Anyway, she’s fine.
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February 18, 2006.
Boy, this whole day, I have been binging on text! It took me about eight hours but I read the whole Rich Dad’s Cashflow Quadrant book. I mean I wasn’t forcing myself to read it. It was kinda like I started at 10:00AM and before I knew it, I finished the book at 6:00PM. Of course, like all bibles, I’m gonna have to reread it throughout the course of forever to kinda refresh myself.
Cash on!