Happy New Year! Remember as a kid in school, you'd still be accidentally writing the previous year all the time? Time went slow then. Now we know each year goes by faster than the last and it doesn't stop until we drop. Time's flying by so fucking fast now it's not funny. True story. I was getting a prescription filled for my baby last month and the guy kept saying my kid's insurance info wasn't in the system. I verified the name, insurance number and birth date 3 or 4 times with the pharmacist and was still coming up empty. He finally asked how old my child was and I replied "10 months." He asked, "Not 10 years?" I had been wrongly repeating the birth year was 1994. Shit, off by a decade. I could've really sworn it was just 1994. Wasn't it?

Anyway, another year, another round of resolutions. 2004 sucked badly for me. I lost my trading mojo, even worse than 2003 when the cluelessness first started seeping in. Sucking really sucks, so let's end it now. I'm halfway through a terrible bout of the flu. This is what happens when I don't get a flu shot. One horrible flu during Xmas and New Year's and one horrible summer flu. I had been flu-less for about 5 or 6 years once I started getting an annual flu shot, but that string just ended. When I get it, I really get the works: runny nose, stuffy head, headaches, body pains, nausea. My mom is the same way. Just a complete body breakdown and it takes a week of in bed sweating it out with nyquil and hot toddies, followed by a week of gradually getting well. I'm in that second week now.

In the meantime, for sheer entertainment, it would be hard to top the Big Cheese "and Whine" Blog. It chronicles the Big Cheese, aka Tampa, and his adventures/misadventures in the Woodie room. The guy's first rate hilarious, and his madness has skewered up a notch since being banned from chat a couple weeks back for offending Gio. I know it's not the way he intended it to be, but the blog's suddenly become a lonely hearts hangout for all the "anonymouses" to bash Woodie and his inner circle.