Starwood Property Trust (STWD) has done OK for me.
It lends on commercial properties. It’s yielding 8% and the company seems on the right track. I read part of the annual report. The first part is the CEO’s impressive letter. To read it, click StarwoodLetter (I scanned it my trusty Fujitsu ScanSnap scanner.)
Don’t see Mad Max.
Don’t see it even in 3D. Your amusement with the wonderful set and the crazy cars and trucks — the film cost $150 million to make — will last about about 15 minutes before you get bored. Increasingly my problem with movies is I have trouble hearing and discerning all the dialog. I suspect my movie days are numbered. Renting movies and watching them with Sennheiser headphones, like these, works a lot better:
Buy them on Amazon for $68. Click here.
AWeber is a neat mailing operation. My friend has started a new business called Change Activation training. He does a good job. You can watch his YouTube video here.
What I liked especially was the “Click here to download” button. When you click you get sent to his site. You enter your email and you receive the PDF. The mailing process and mailing list management is handled by a company called AWeber. Good operation. Click here.
Technology at work. Sophie, the granddaughter, visited the weekend. This is Claire, my daughter and Sophie’s mother, testing Sophie for poop. Claire’s nose is super-sensitive, like her father’s. Great photo? (Sophie tested positive.)
Most absurd movie yet. Two models in Russia pose with a 1,400-pound, allegedly tame, bear to promote conservation. Would you?
For the movie, click here.
Harry Newton who lost power at his Columbia County “mansion” over the weekend. The emergency generator, of course, failed to come on. There’s one reason your emergency generator won’t kick in: Its battery is dead — which mine was. It’s a 12 volt car battery. That means you can jump-start it with your car — if you can find the battery. Typically, you have to open the generator’s hood and ease the front panel down or off. Bingo, you’ll find the battery. Live and learn.
When someone installs equipment for you, ask them for an Instruction Manual, a Service Manual and tips on how to fix it. Murphy’s Law: They won’t be around when you need them most.
If Intel’s buys Altera, it will continue Intel’s history of buying and destroying companies. Want a list of Intel acquisitions? It’s huge, and expensive.
If you wanted to start the generator just ask Google how.
Harry…Harry…i told you about this when you had problems with a car batter…get a battery floater…it will keep your battery fully charged all the time without over charging it. I put one on my car battery every year when we leave for the summer…3-4 months later, come home and car starts right up…even with all it’s computers that would normally run the battery down in one month or less. Get one for cars you leave in storage while bouncing back and forth between NY&CA.
Black Bull BFC12 Automatic Battery Float Charger Amazon!