Swimming Pools

[polarbear]

Mowed my lawn today, mid-day, close to 100 degrees, that was a real workout, about 3/4 acre -- that's work. Took my mind off the market. When are those S&P slackers going to get their a**es in gear and downgrade France? Clearly, the French bankers and govt chipped in and bot a case of the best French wines for every member of the S&P hatchet board. That's what's retarding this process. My wife's from Europe and she said I'm probably right, and the Boss is never wrong.

OK, I got my answer. After some Googling,
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/for-next-rating-downgrade-sp-may-look-at-france-2011-08-10 (For next rating down, S&P may look at France)
then http://money.cnn.com/2011/08/11/markets/thebuzz/ (Sacre bleu, the market has downgraded France!)
then finally the answer http://seekingalpha.com/article/286586-will-s-p-downgrade-france-s-credit-rating-too (Will S&P downgrade France's credit rating too?)

The answer is that the difference is the idiots in our Congress actually threatened to default. That crossed a line that the agency could not let stand. So that's how it's done. Bringing up Congress, if that can be imagined. At our expense. Thank you very much, Tea party children. You are so astute.

Funny, in all of this, Financial Express out of Dacca, Bangladesh said France had been downgraded on Thursday. Somehow I missed it.

 

[PessOptimist]

Polarbear, I mowed my lawn today too. Over 100f. We all just keep on keeping on. You don't state what European country the boss is from. It doesn't matter, you as an American are at fault. Ask her if she wants to go back.

No. don't do that, just keep mowing the lawn and bringing $ to the home. Everything is going to be OK.

 

[polarbear]

I am at fault for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory and getting my a&& in a sling. Hope to rectify it in the next 1-2 months by playing / gaming the mkt. Grr! I was just looking at that graph in Time of countries' GDP % increase versus debt to GDP ratio. It shows Poland up there with Finland and Sweden, even better than Germany and France, but not AAA like them, only BB, which is not fair. I guess the wheels of the S&P grind slowly in the upward direction, whatever. The lady of the house is from Poland. I have a foot over there in Central Europe myself, so we resonate.

While I am at it, I am wishing Birchtree success in the same.

 

[KevinD]

I thought this was the swimming pool thread...

 

[polarbear]

Will vacuum the pool this evening.

 

[nnuut]

Will vacuum the pool this evening.

Mine runs automatically!:laugh:

 

[polarbear]

Mine runs automatically!:laugh:

Cool. Yeah, most of my friends have that.

 

[polarbear]

Finished vacuuming the pool. Now doing Pinot Noir. Yesterday is 20 years since I arrived in Sheremetevo airport (2nd of 3 visits) -- Aug.13, 1991 Tuesday to visit colleagues in Tomsk. Next day buddy and I walked around Moscow going to bookstores, one cool book I bought was Notes of an East Siberian Hunter, Cherkasov, fresh off the press, but I waited too long to buck to translate it, internet tells me Stephen Bodio, naturalist, birdwatcher, falconeer, has already had a guy do a first draft on it, shoot, let another one slip thru my fingers, dang. His blog website querencia (Sp. for lair). Wait, this has to do with Swimming Pools in a sense, just wait.

That night we took the Siberian Express out of the Kazan station. 2.5 days, arrived Saturday noon. Sunday friends gave me a tour of old town, first time I saw pot growing wild there, what a trip first time, then saw bunches of it growing along the pier by the river a block from city hall. Whatta trip. But 8 yrs later, 1999, less was growing there, only 2-3 plants. That night we had a great dinner with vodka shots and went to theatre/ballet. Next morning, Monday, I arrived in the Institute, people huddled in small groups whispering, I asked what, said there was a coup. So three unusual days, then it was all over with, so I got to see it like an ordinary Soviet citizen. One month followed, fun. Hey, I had a housekeeper and my own private sauna and dip pool.

On 1999 trip, another conference like 1990, indication of future conferences at Lake Baikal. So by and by want to take in one of those. Want to swim in it. A polar bear can do it. It's on the cold side. OK, Mr. Market, do your thing.

 

[nnuut]

Cool. Yeah, most of my friends have that. View attachment 14991

RUFF-Polaris-woff woff!

 

[JTH]

RUFF-Polaris-View attachment 14993woff woff!

I have the remote control model called "kids", it's cool they work pretty fast! Plus when I run the Polaris I have to have to pump on high, I use it more during the fall when the leaves are dropping. Got in the pool today, scrubbed it, played in the pool too

 

[FAB1]

PO, it's the small victories that count,

and,

FAB1, how did you get that giant beer to float like that?

Blue moons always float. Its not a giant beer just a small pool. Optical illusion.

 

[KevinD]

Hook. Line. Sinker.

 

[PessOptimist]

Woohoo! My free rebuild kit arrived yesterday. It was too damn hot and I was too damned lazy to install it. Tonight we have too much wind and lots of weather warnings. Maybe tomorrow.

The subject may be pools but this is the lounge. We tangent where we will.

In the last century I had a TDY to Moscow, ME. We all had to stand in a line at finance to get our orders verified and get any cash advance we wanted. A fellow squadron member was in front of me and we were talking about if the orders said Moscow or Bangor or both. A young Captain behind us interrupted and said something like "you guys are going to Moscow?" in an envious voice. I replied that yes we were. He commented something like "you old enlisted guys get all the good TDYs". I never asked where the captain was going. I never elaborated on which Moscow we were going to.

The plan is to get up early tomorrow before it gets over 100 and fix that damned valve. The pop up vs crawler battle continues.

 

[polarbear]

Cool. And cool about a rebuild kit, but to rebuild what? You must live in Arizona. It's hot enough here, FL, but mercifully the last three days we have had something of a high pressure system with drier air, but it's petering out. That's OK. Am spending more time in the pool now. It invigorates me. Yeah, Polaris pool equipment, I'm hep. Then there's the Polaris Rangers we drive up and down the beach at work. Fun, actually.

Check out all this morning's news. Futures at 6:45: -193.00, -22.20, -39.75 = 10824.0, 1121.3, 2024.45.
MW: Mkts watching for more bad news from Europe; Bove: Mkt flipping out on US banks, hm, and that on top of Euro banks I guess;
MW: Street in doghouse; hey, isn't that Heathcliff's dog pal? US mkt, following Eur.and Asia, continues to deteriorate, hey I'll say, etc.

A few people, like Uptrend for example (1090), don't think it'll stop here. Like next week may have more in store.
The mkt doesn't seem to be singing the Happy Feet song just yet.

You would have to work at it to find this on the internet, I had to go to my record shelf for the album, Encores from the 30's, Vol. 1, '30-'35 for the info: Frankie Trumbauer and his Orchestra, vocalist: Harold Arlen.

 

[PessOptimist]

Cool. And cool about a rebuild kit, but to rebuild what? You must live in Arizona. It's hot enough here, FL, but mercifully the last three days we have had something of a high pressure system with drier air, but it's petering out. That's OK. Am spending more time in the pool now. It invigorates me. Yeah, Polaris pool equipment, I'm hep.

To rebuild the popup valve. Designed to fail every few years. The pool floor has popup valves in it to push away dirt and leaves. YMMV. Still doesn't get rid of all the stuff.

Then there's the Polaris Rangers we drive up and down the beach at work. Fun, actually.

If you drive such equipment on the beach, the media leads me to believe you all look like people called Hasslehoff, Anderson or Bleeth. I often wondered if the latter two would need flotation devices? Guess that depends on the specific garvity of silicon.

Check out all this morning's news. Futures at 6:45: -193.00, -22.20, -39.75 = 10824.0, 1121.3, 2024.45.
MW: Mkts watching for more bad news from Europe; Bove: Mkt flipping out on US banks, hm, and that on top of Euro banks I guess;
MW: Street in doghouse; hey, isn't that Heathcliff's dog pal? US mkt, following Eur.and Asia, continues to deteriorate, hey I'll say, etc.

Is that the Heathcliff cat of the cartoon or the man in the old novel "Wuthering Heights" Showing my age here and better google it.

A few people, like Uptrend for example (1090), don't think it'll stop here. Like next week may have more in store.
The mkt doesn't seem to be singing the Happy Feet song just yet

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There is no happy feet song right now. You either get out and take your losses or get in and take your chances. Go to the pool. Remember when to take the breath.

You would have to work at it to find this on the internet, I had to go to my record shelf for the album, Encores from the 30's, Vol. 1, '30-'35 for the info: Frankie Trumbauer and his Orchestra, vocalist: Harold Arlen.

It sounds interesting. See if you can post an audio file.
PO