http://mikeandvivi.org/blog For Blogging Sake! Mon, 04 May 2009 15:19:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en At school the other day, during recess, Jaime picked a large handful of dandelions.  When he returned to class, he gave a dandelion to the teacher.  Then he decided to hand out dandelions to all the students (20+).  Everyone was very excited to get dandelions and surrounded Jaime waiting their ... http://mikeandvivi.org/blog/?p=248 Jaime learned to catch with his hands over the weekend.  As opposed to just holding out his arms and "catching" when a ball or object lands and sticks, he learned this weekend to catch with his hands by timing the ball into his hands and grasping.  I was a proud ... http://mikeandvivi.org/blog/?p=244 ...and it's too late to give out any decent (capital-preserving) market advice.  I'm truly sorry what advice I did give was probably too vaguely worded and too infrequent (and too optimistic, I think!).  Not that anyone really reads this blog, but I'd feel better had I done a better job ... http://mikeandvivi.org/blog/?p=243 Such has been the response many times when I've argued that Peak Oil was going to be a huge problem for our society.  "We'll just switch to more efficient cars" goes the response.  Big deal, we'll all get high mpg cars, or hybrids, or electric cars will become available.  Or ... http://mikeandvivi.org/blog/?p=242 Jaime started primary classes yesterday. he spent the entire day in the new class. He came home happy, almost like a different kid from the one around in the last 2 weeks or so. The Toddler class was no longer holding his interest and he was eager to move "upstairs" ... http://mikeandvivi.org/blog/?p=241 My little girl is growing very fast. She now can sit and has started drinking the bottle by herself. She makes tons of babababa sounds, raspberries and she loves to clap. What she loves most is being close to Jaime.  Here she is with the lovely Mr. Green, Jaime's frog. http://mikeandvivi.org/blog/?p=239 Jaime for the first time today put on his underwear and pants without any help - holding them open with his hands and wriggling his feet into the correct holes.  I was a very proud papa :-) We have been having some problems with his Montessori school lately.  He is in ... http://mikeandvivi.org/blog/?p=237 These two writers are very popular these days, writing as they do in an intelligent manner about things like globalization and Iraq and the Middle East in general. I think, however, their popularity springs, not from some special insight they have, but rather by their lack of any special ... http://mikeandvivi.org/blog/?p=236 It's been two weeks since that befuddling 9 mb drop in US commercial crude oil stocks, and since then, stocks have fallen another 9 million (about 4.5 m both weeks since).  Oil bounced off $122 up to $138, then back to $131, and now at around $136.  One of the ... http://mikeandvivi.org/blog/?p=233 This past week's oil inventory report was quite strange. It reported an 8.8 million barrel decline in commercial crude oil inventories. That's a huge drop, especially at this time of year. Inventories of both crude and gasoline are at or near the bottom of the 5-year average ... http://mikeandvivi.org/blog/?p=232