It’s 7:21PM and I am going home. I have been working my cock off this week and it is time to relax for an evening and watch last nights episode of Arrested Development that I am currently downloading.

At closing today, I am about 4% down in the Stock Market. I added a few new symbols to my portfolio, so we will seem how they perform tomorrow.

Trading stocks is interesting. It’s even more interesting/complex when you are a leftist who has read and understood and agreed with a lot of Marxist thought. But somehow I am totally into capitalism, and totally totally into the stock market. I was talking to my friend Danny earlier about our investment principles. I was saying how I would never invest in companies with terrible business practices. I admit there is no avoiding it completely, but there are lines to be drawn. I would never invest in a tobacco company. Nor would I invest in a company like Halliburton. Even though the energy sector has been going through the fucking roof lately, I won’t invest in oil. I will, however, invest in new energies as long as they seem sustainable (don’t burn yourself on the hot buzzword) and responsible.

Which leads me to this Motley Fool article I read about Socially Responsible Investing [I can't find the bloody link right now and I am too lazy to go searching for it.] But anyway, SRI’s, so hot right now. I usually stay away form mutual funds, but I may buy a few shares of this SRI-approved fund: CNVAX.

I am going to make a few small changes to this site soon-ish. I am going to get rid of the “reading, listening, watching” stuff on my sidebar. I will let you know in posts if I read, hear or watch anything good. (Right now: Arrested Development, The Verve’s Urban Hymns and a million architecture books including Delirious New York) I may also change the theme, since I am no longer totally into sailing. I kinda like the anchor so we will see.