It’s getting really light early in the morning now. Soon it’ll be bright when I get up at 4:45. Some people think that’s pretty early, but I also go to bed at around 8PM or 9PM—I need my 8 hours. I’m not sure why, but I seem to need a fair bit of sleep. I know some people can get by on 4 hours, but I’m definitely not one of them. Some of my best thinking comes when I’m sleeping, too. Oftentimes when I wake up I’ll have an idea to implement at the office or something to do during the day or some insight into a problem I’ve been thinking of. Maybe it’s a coping mechanism so I don’t think I’m lazy, but it seems to work.
We’ve also had some pretty nice weather lately. All fun in the sun for the last few days and it looks like it’ll last a few more (now, of course, that I’ve said that things will have to turn for the worse—dooogh!). It’s especially nice walking downtown. There are shorter skirts and lower tops donning the lassies these days; but one also has to see the odd bare, hairy, tattooed pot-belly—double dooogh!
It’s kind of interesting in this office. The guys are usually in at about 6:30AM or so, but at 1PM the place becomes a ghostown, fast-like. I knew they were traders, but it looks like their whole lives are pure trading in most cases. Some of the guys are looking at being more of a planner, but I highly doubt they can make the change after so many years as traders. Well, I’m not that dogmatic. One or two of the guys are bright enough to see the writing on the wall and make a change, but one of them is a bloody genius who, I believe, could find a way to make money selling sand in the desert. He’s already beating the bushes pretty hard with all of his clients and contacts that what we can do for them is a good thing (and, of course, it is). He’s actually pretty funny. He was meeting with the trustees of a local private school and told some of the high-powered lawyers there that he is implementing alter-ego trusts for his senior clients and they are basically idiots for not knowing about them—because they are in the legal profession and always say they know everything about this stuff while here’s this old broker who knows more. Haha. Ya, he’s a little confrontational, but he is the same age as these guys (50+) and has known them for years. He also has made tens of millions of dollars for his clients with few losses, so his words on finance resonate with many.
Time to get off the train already, later.
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