Washington DC TODO

Look up in the skylab exhibit.

Shuttle, SR-71 exhibit

Capital without scaffolding.  Brigham Young statue

Library of congress with better camera.

Gloria victis, Antiope, vietnam heroines, high res scans

 

 

 

 

 

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

An unusual thing happened after the last hot inflation report, the junk airline stonk was relatively high & the hedge fund was relatively low.  Lions are manely out of the airline stonk by now, having not made or lost anything on it.  It lost big time against inflation, though. The big question is when to expand stonk holdings beyond that.  Lions still see tax paying season as a flat to negative time, followed by the santa clause rally.

Inflation is not too high by fed standards.  The market is overreacting to 3.5%.

Interest rates have been high for almost a year, so long that they can seem to be a lost opportunity for stonk holders.  Lions still are bearish on interest rates or at least envision a future of whipsaw interest rates.

Having originally concentrated the taxable account on earning interest & tax sheltered accounts on stonks, it now appears the tax free accounts should be concentrated on earning interest & taxable account should be concentrated in stonks.  The original reasons were to allow trades to avoid taxes & because interest was going to be negligible but if all the stonks are in forever mutual funds & interest is paying a lot, the logic reverses.  The use of forever funds came along after the original logic, but there's still some rationale behind diversifying each type of account.  

Forever funds may not end up lasting forever.  There could be another big drop, in which case a lion might want to trade a forever position for a better deal.

The fact is the tax sheltered accounts are a very small amount compared to the 1 taxable account.  They already have a significant amount earning interest.  There's always going to be a lot of tax to be paid on interest. 

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

OJ will finally be joining the lion kingdom in hell, having perished at the relatively young age of 76. Lions are planning on hitting the average for men, 75, despite social preferences which push single men higher on the longevity spectrum. Poor diet, voting for satan in every election, working in the private sector, skin cancer risk, colon cancer risk, will all conspire to reduce the number.

Lions have pondered how everything they have yet to produce will be no more than the amount they produced in the last 25 years.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The last resident evil installment was just like the others.  No reason for existing besides random zombies & heroines shooting.  The heroine didn't have a lot of screen time.  The only suspense was wondering who would survive.  Lions expected only the heroine to survive, but

Kind of a bummer to know from the previous episodes that most life on Earth gets wiped out.  We can assume all these characters died off eventually.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

After 1 month, no longer swollen enough to see from the side but now more swollen when viewed from above.

 

Injury cycle:

It's just another niggle. Run through it & it'll go away.

It's more than a niggle.  Walk for a few days.

Sick & tired of walking.  Run through it at a slower pace.

Can't walk anymore so give up for a few days.