Going to Boston tomorrrow.

Being with Noah and Dean and seeing Jim will be great. I was in Boston once or twice before. I remember getting my picture taken with a statue of Mayor Curley, sitting on a park bench as I recall, and going to the Old North Church. The Mayor Curley thing was kind of unique back then (maybe 30 years ago.) More recently I think I've seen park bench statues of Big Bird and Ronald McDonald. Sigh. One snapshot in my mind is of strings of lights over a busy market street in an old Italian nighborhood. I wondered if they had feast days to celebrate so often that they left the lights up year around. I'd like to live in a neighborhood like that.

Of course, everyone there is probably getting goofy over the Yankee-Red Sox thing. Maybe we'll watch a Red Sox game one evening and try to catch a little baseball fever. So far this year I haven't succumbed, even though I guess the Sox and Cubs are close to top of their respective divisions. I get my baseball enthusiasm through osmosis from people around me, and I just don't feel it in the air this year. Maybe people think our teams won't make it through the play-off's, so why get all excited.

I don't think I'll take the laptop, and probably won't post while there. So I guess I should tell you that I bought a put on ISLE (Isle of Capri), a casino company stock on the 30th of July. it's down a little, but i'd like it to drop to its 200 day moving average, around $7 pretty soon. My grudge stocks, Darden and Gymboree are still doing pretty well, although Darden is off it's high, Gymboree is out of sight. Still bearish? you ask. Sure, and while I wish a speedy and robust econonic recovery to all those near and dear, I feel personally a little Eeyore-ish or maybe Cassandra-ish and provide a link to this article for you to fret over while I'm gone.