I've been keeping a low profile in the days leading up to the WCCI National Shindig Extraordinaire on the off-chance that I actually attended. Maybe I'm ridiculously paranoid, but if I did go there, I didn't want to be publically outted as the dimwit Cheese-wannabe troublemaker. With hotcomm releasing private information and rumors of the clever team of WCCI net sleuths being able to do whois's and whowas's to get IP addresses, names, numbers and IB account balances, maybe sitting in the corner of the chatroom with the "I'm not Fearless" t-shirt wouldn't be enough anonymity. Blogger doesn't release private info, do they?

Anyway, I'm not going. I'm not going to the Wealth Expo either, though I do need new t-shirts, key chains and a 4 week trial subscription to Barron's. So much for that. However, there is some good news. I am going to the Pomona Quilt, Craft & Sewing Festival on the 10th, 11th and 12th. That'll be at the Fairplex in Pomona, California. Exit at Fairplex Drive off I-10. I'll the heterosexual male there pushing the unhappy baby in the stroller for 6 hours a day.

My wife's in the textile business. She actually has skills and can make good money in her profession (when she feels like working), unlike me in my chosen profession. So she has the right to go to her sewing thing, and I belong at a atock market wealth thingy like "Bush belongs at a MENSA meeting." That was my wife's analogy.

I can live with it. Maybe she gets her creative juices going and wants to finally return to work. Originally she was going to take off a couple months after the baby was born. Instead she took off 3 months prior to the birth and now over a year afterwards with no end in sight. All the while, I've been burning up my cozy little exhuberant era CMGI and CNET slush fund that was supposed to be earmarked for a leisurely subsequent lifetime of daytrading losses. Instead, it's been going, going, gone for life purposes like food, shelter, and diapers.