General: October 2005 Archives

I've had a fairly mixed couple of weeks.  Life changes rapidly when you give it a chance.  It happens even wilder if you don't - only you find yourself not on the ride.  You get one spin in the great cosmos, peeps.  Use it.  Make it count.  It reminds me of my most loved poem by Herrick.  Carpe Diem!

TO THE VIRGINS, TO MAKE MUCH OF TIME
~ by Robert Herrick

GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may,
    Old time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day
    To-morrow will be dying.

The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
    The higher he's a-getting,
The sooner will his race be run,
    And nearer he's to setting.

That age is best which is the first,
    When youth and blood are warmer;
But being spent, the worse, and worst
    Times still succeed the former.

Then be not coy, but use your time,
    And while ye may go marry:
For having lost but once your prime
    You may for ever tarry.

While writing this I played: American Idiot from the album "American Idiot" by Green Day, which doesn't fit the sentiment of the poem, but does fit my mood.

The stars are a very strange, indeed.  If you ask, they'll answer, sometimes louder than you imagined.

There might be something to this Europe thing after all.  Humm....

Swiss Portal & Swissworld.org are great general starting points.  Then there's SECO Standort about setting up you business to do business in Switzerland.

Played: Rack Em Up from the album "Lie To Me" by Jonny Lang

I've been wondering, "Now what?"

A few years back, I thought about moving to Europe for a stint.  Why not?  There was nothing holding me back.  And the idea that I could do what I do from Europe made for a good idea.  Being a big fish in a little pond is what I do in terms of business.  Applying that to a foreign market has appeal.  I could offer a very specialized service to my clients, old and new.

Again, I'm thinking about that idea.  Why not?  I could sell the house and make a move.  OK, I do have an office and employees, but there is no reason to assume it could not continue as normal - just me being "a man on the street" in Europe.  Plus, George and I have been talking about him taking the helm, allowing me to focus on trading.  It could work.

While considering this I played: Sin Of the City from the album "Duran Duran" by Duran Duran

Its my birthday.  And again, October marks a period of change for me as it has done so frequently in the past.

AstrologyZone says: Rarely will the cosmos shower you with as many radiant fireworks as the ones it will this month! It will be twelve years until you see anything to match the display of cosmic beauty that you are about to see now. With a solar eclipse on October 3 in your sign, along with the Sun, Mercury, and Jupiter all lining up in Libra, you'll shine brightly and you will be a step closer to a long-held dream.

...Eclipses also bring events from the outside world into play, conditions over which you have no control, and that you might assume have nothing to do with you - until they do! As you see, this will be a month of crazy events and unbelievable twists and turns.

On my birthday, I played pool with a few friends and kept it all very simple.  It was a fair day, but I was happy.

While writing this I considered:  Forever Young by Alphaville.