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Today marks the start of a two week road trip. The route we are taking can be seen here:

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Weddings, visiting with family and friends, as well as a few days camping will undoubtably make the time slip by faster that I would like.

Photo Friday this week wants something Awful!. I couldn't think of a more fitting photo.

Calgary drivers posses a bit of a problem, that stems from a mix of consideration and curiosity. The Deerfoot, which for some reason is labeled as a 'trail', twists drivers together so that accidents are pretty much a daily occurrence. If the average is below one a day, the first snowfall of the year will bring the average back up to par. The problem is not the three lanes of asphalt, but all the onlookers after the fact.

Leaving work after six, to ensure that I missed the bulk of the rush hour, I was halted after merging onto the Deerfoot from Glenmore. After crawling a distance, I realized that the accident was already pulled off the road. A Fire truck, a 350Z and some flavour of mini-van were well off to the shoulder of the road, and from my elevated position on the ramp, I could see the traffic was unhindered as passed by the scene. Consideration usually leads the lane closest to the accident down to the 60km/h level. This time however, all three lanes were trapped in a 20km/h crawl past the flashing red lights. The problem was evident as soon as I reached the breaking point. Everyone wanted to see what was on the other side of the Fire truck, myself included. As soon as that curiosity was solved, we could get back to normal driving

My neck has been providing its share of grief for the last week. Last Monday I awoke and found that I no longer had the ability to look at my feet or over either shoulder. A muscle in my back decided to take a break after I crossed some unknown boundary.

The pain and discomfort were obviously the worst on day one. A few co-workers could tell instantaneously that you could hide yourself if you stood anywhere outside my field of view. I toughed it out for the week, and stretching helped improve my mobility daily. Friday night the evil sleeping position that led to this predicament struck again and I was forced to invest in some methocarbamol generics. Medication and heat treatment seemed to have paid off as I'm almost back at full mobility.

I could also back it all up again if I manage to figure out what I'm doing to get into this predicament in the first place.

I love the financial market. A bewildering mix of mathematical theories and psychological ideas creates an entity which I can not help but watch and study. Yesterday I explicitly sat down to trade, and over the span of six hours managed to obtain some of the best returns I ever had. The downside was this trading session went from 8 pm until 2 past midnight.

On the drive into work this morning, I thought about keeping a trade journal. All of my trading platforms keep track of all the entries and exits, but there is no place to hold onto how I felt at that time or what I saw that made the trade so appealing. A blog fits this niche, although I'm pretty sure that only small fraction of people that read this web log care about what I'm doing in the markets. To that end I hijacked the Order of Magnitude site for my personal log and rant space. It was intended for another project, and since that project has slowed down to a crawl for the summer, I figured I might as well use the URL. It's equipped with an RSS feed, should you use tools to help you with that sort of thing.