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Deal on the house fell through; but it's no skin off my nose. There are hundreds of homes in my area, and I'm in no hurry to run out and grab one.

I don't know if you guys have been following Jim Watson, of Watson and Crick fame (you know, the double helix twins); but he's apparently been saying some off the wall shit. Which, personally, I can't really be incited to do much ranting when a dude who looks like this starts talkin' crazy. He's a three dimensional Grandpa Simpson, okay people? Most of the time, this guy probably thinks he's living in Candyland or something; so if he starts saying weird stuff, just humor him. I mean, when we're all that old, our motor's probably going to knock a little bit too. He probably just needs a nap or his oxegen tank or something.

Secondly, oil is now $90 a barrel, and it's got me thinking. We have oil heat in the house we're renting, right? And we buy oil by the couple hundred gallons or so, which means there's oil left over from last winter in the tank buried in my yard. I have calculated, over the period, that my investment in heating oil last January has outperformed my entire stock portfolio. The really amazing thing is that between January and March I was obviously drawing from my oil tank, while at the same time contributing money to my employer-matched fund; and the oil tank still outperformed my return. Which is exactly why I've decided to cash out both of our retirement funds, and use the money to hoard oil. It means we won't be able to use it to heat the house this winter, but I have an alternative fuel: The Souls of The Innocent. They burn hotter, longer, and cleaner!