Double A Penny - Step 20 - Drunken Brawl

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Overall things have been going dreadfully. I won't go into details but, without any exaggeration, everything is going very badly and we are being attacked in so many ways and from so many sources, I am not sure we will make it through this time without a full blown miracle occurring.

My hope is that one day, if at all possible, life will return to some state of normalcy.

Despite all that is happening, I keep plugging away at DTAMP in whatever capacity I am able to.

Today I found ($0.12) on the floor of the supermarket. The market was very busy and I needed to get to a dime that was in the middle of the checkout aisle. I kept going back to it but there would always be more people in the way. So finally I decided to wait in line and when I got up to the dime I picked it up. The clerk smiled at me. I think they have gotten used to my determination to get stray coins laying around.

There was a bit of a ruckus at the supermarket. I noticed this one guy kind of fall off the curb and landed on his back in the parking lot. I was walking out of the store at the time to get something in the car. Another guy sitting a ways away said to the guy something about getting up.

Then another of the four men got hostile for some reason and started to approach the guy that said something about getting up. The hostile one started to posture and cuss. You could tell he was trying to build up his courage to do something. As I walked away I could tell that there was going to be a fight or something.

By the time I got back one guy was sitting with a bloody face. In the store the guy that fell down was sitting there his face covered in blood. The hostile guy was no where to be seen. Eventually the police showed up with an ambulance.

It was obvious all four men were drunk. Pitiful. It was because of a drunk driver back in 1965 that my Father ended up dying early in life. The bad blood he got when they saved his life back then, ended up destroying his liver. It also destroyed the second liver. The 21 year old kid that hit us (he went out to celebrate his 21st birthday and got drunk), ripping off the driver side of our car, ended up going through the windshield and dying. All four of us survived, but just barely.

The surgeons gave up on my Father because he was a total mess and gave him to an intern to practice on. The intern ended up saving my Father's life. He spent three months in a coma and a year in the hospital. When he got out he died in our living room and saw the light and his body laying on the floor. He came back and they brought him to the hospital again. Turned out one of the arteries from the heart to the brain had broken off and fused to another area. They had to cut him from his heart to his brain to remove the artery and fix the damage.

That surgery had never been done in the world before and specialists from all over the world were trying to get the position to perform it. My Father survived. He went on to play golf every chance he got for the next 35 years. Nothing stopped this man. Not a broken back, crushed vertebrae, a missing artery, nor the destruction of his liver. He was unstoppable.

I never realized what a great man my Father was. Now I will never forget it.

I haven't made any trades for DTAMP since my Father went into the hospital at the beginning of June.

On Thursday, August 27th, 2009 I finally made a trade and purchased 262 shares of UCO @ $11.60

UCO is ProShares Ultra DJ-UBS Crude Oil(ETF).

I am still holding it at this point and fortunately it is up around +7.11% @ $217.00 after commissions. Hopefully Monday oil will go up.

The thing about UCO is that it is a leveraged play. The summary says; "The investment will seek to replicate, net of expenses, twice the daily performance of the Dow Jones AIG Crude Oil Sub-Index."

The problem with leveraged ETFs is that the longer you hold them the more of a disparity grows between the pure (2X) ratio and the reality of the actual investment. In other words it loses ground over time. So this ETF is really meant for fast in-out trades.

Present Stake: $3098.64

Motto: It is only "one" found penny.
Slogan: As Simple As Finding A Penny.
Theme Song: Chumbawamba - Tubthumping

Regards,

Xinfinitum



This Double A Penny Blog is based upon the Doubling Method "How to Double Your Way to a £Million in 28 Steps". Using the Doubling Rule it is an attempt to "Double Your Way to a Million" by going from one penny to a million dollars, starting from nothing. At the beginning you start by finding a penny and then double a penny until reaching $1,000,000.

Double Your Way To A Million
How to Double Your Way to a Million in 28 Steps
D.T.A.M.P. - Double To A Million Plan
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Double To A Million - Step 20 - DTAMP Gets A Second Life

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A couple of years ago I heard about Second Life, an online virtual world, where you can interact with other people, via an avatar. You can also create things by building them using a number of different techniques, rezzing objects, scripting, sculpties, particles, etc.

I enjoyed building things and as a result managed to sell some of them during my time on Second Life.

The above picture is a drafting tool kit. One of many different things I created along the way.

I withdrew some of my Linden Dollars from Second Life by selling them on XStreet and withdrawing them to PayPal. Fortunately I was not charged any fees on PayPal. So I received the entire amount of $70.59 .

In addition to that I have added ($0.26) in found change and ($11.30) in returned bottles and cans since my last blog post.

I am working on a few more things that may result in additional funds being added to the stake soon.

Present Stake: $3098.01

Motto: It is only "one" found penny.
Slogan: As Simple As Finding A Penny.
Theme Song: Chumbawamba - Tubthumping

Regards,

Xinfinitum



This Double A Penny Blog is based upon the Doubling Method "How to Double Your Way to a £Million in 28 Steps". Using the Doubling Rule it is an attempt to "Double Your Way to a Million" by going from one penny to a million dollars, starting from nothing. At the beginning you start by finding a penny and then double a penny until reaching $1,000,000.

Double Your Way To A Million
How to Double Your Way to a Million in 28 Steps
D.T.A.M.P. - Double To A Million Plan
"For The Next Chronological Post Click Here"

Double To A Million - Step 20 - 3rd Year Anniversary

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e Happy Anniversary DTAMP e

Three years ago today, August 2nd, 2006, I began the DTAMP project. At the present I am $3,015.86 closer to the goal of One Million Dollars. It isn't great but it is not to bad either. What surprises me most about the last three years is that it "Has" been three years. I didn't give up working on the project.

In most cases, I would have given up by now and moved on to other more exciting, maybe more profitable projects. I learned some valuable lessons working at DTAMP that I have applied to my personal life and finances that have actually helped to improve them.

Seeing results in my personal life, brought on by the things I learned, sticking it out through good times and bad with the Double To A Million Plan, has helped in me staying with the Project and not giving up.

Lately, I have fallen into a bit of a slump and things are moving ahead slowly. I haven't been able to trade the stake in the stock market because all it has wanted to do lately is go up. I missed the beginning of the move up in June and as a result have not been comfortable jumping in.

I am waiting for a pull back in the markets and then hope to get the signal to make a move. As a result DTAMP hasn't been growing much. I am more successful in a volatile, sideways market. NLY stopped that behavior and has been going higher almost every day for all of June and July.

I have been gathering aluminum cans though various methods, including getting them from a friend who has been collecting them for me. She owns a great gift gallery called Creative Connections .

Based on my rudimentary projections: $3000 divided by 3 years is about $1000 a year. $1,000,000 divided by $1000 per year equals 1000 years to reach the first million. So one of two things needs to happen here. One, I discover the secret to near immortality to last the remaining 996 years, 9 months and 27 days, or two, I find some way to quicken the pace by bringing in more money faster. At the present I am closer to finding the secret.

Present Stake: $3015.86

Motto: It is only "one" found penny.
Slogan: As Simple As Finding A Penny.
Theme Song: Chumbawamba - Tubthumping

Regards,

Xinfinitum



This Double A Penny Blog is based upon the Doubling Method "How to Double Your Way to a £Million in 28 Steps". Using the Doubling Rule it is an attempt to "Double Your Way to a Million" by going from one penny to a million dollars, starting from nothing. At the beginning you start by finding a penny and then double a penny until reaching $1,000,000.

Double Your Way To A Million
How to Double Your Way to a Million in 28 Steps
D.T.A.M.P. - Double To A Million Plan
"For The Next Chronological Post Click Here"