Most of you are back at work this morning.  For some of you, this is the first day at work for 2009.  SUCKERS!  I am kidding.  But, I am not at work.  As I mentioned earlier, I will be starting school next week at this time.  So this week is spent just tying up some odds and ends.  Like, I need to buy something to haul my books around.  Seriously, the last time I needed one of those was high school!  Anyways, on to other matters.  Will I be trading anytime soon?  I would love to, but the market movements will determine my timing.  I definitely won’t have time tonight.  Canada is playing Sweden for gold in the World Junior Hockey Championships.  This is an  awesome hockey tournament played every year at this time.  I will be watching the game at a friends place.  That is definitely not a time to be looking at Forex charts.  But, you never know!  I might try some day time trading later in the week.  I don’t trust myself to jump into that right at the start of the year.  So, what can I offer you today?  I thought about giving you something totally mindless.  Something to get your mind of work.  Then I thought about being more helpful than that.  How about something that is kinda funny, but also provides you valuable information.  I got this from XKCD and it is an extremely handy chart!  This is especially true for those of you in the States.

As I suspected, I had no trade last night.  I was playing hockey and didn’t have time.  We are getting dangerously close to Christmas and new years.  I don’t like trading around this time of year.  I might look at things tonight, hopefully I can spot something for a quick profit.  Anyways, about my hockey game.  We won, but it definitely sucked ass.  We have some people who seem to think that recreational hockey is equivalent to the NHL.  They think that you need to antagonize the other team to throw them off their game.  Idiocy.  The game ended with about a minute to go because a brawl broke out.  Yours truly wasn’t a part of the nonsense.  Pay me $15,000 per game and I will fight anybody.  I sure as hell wont fight in a league that I pay to play in.  The win came on the strength of my new hero: my buddy Ree.  He injured his knee and had to leave the game for a short while.  He came back to score 4 goals, including 2 in one shift to ice the game for us.  I posted about this guy a while back when he was being a little bitch and used the electric cart to move around when he injured himself.  Since I called him out for being a pussy back then, I need to commend him on here now.  Here are two shots of Ree.  There is the classic pose, him with two beers because he is just too awesome to have only one.  And, him playing Guitar Hero.  I would like to have a shot of him playing hockey - but he moves too damn fast!  Congrats on your 4 goals Ree!  As promised, this is the blog post about you.  I have now completed any obligations I have to you as a friend.

OK, late post for me this Sunday. For those who were wondering whether I survived Christmas shopping, I thank you for your concern. For those who didn’t notice, fuck you! Kidding. Christmas shopping was insane and tired me out incredibly. I did manage to get pretty much everything I needed, so that is good. Today we have a big day in Toronto. It is the first NFL regular season game in Canada ever! The Buffalo Bills are taking on the Miami Dolphins. In honor of that, I bring you something that has absolutely nothing to do with anything I just talked about. Here is a C & H comic from Explosm. Hey, it’s Sunday. Sunday is for comics and goofing around. I will be making a special effort to trade this week so hopefully I have some good results to show you. Cheers!

It’s about time.  I previously posted a Wendel Clark tribute on this blog.  The guy is still my favorite pro athlete of all time.  He isn’t like the modern mercenaries.  He wanted to play for Toronto.  He didn’t care about anything else.  He gave everything he had and his body paid the price.  His sacrifice did not fall on blind eyes.  He is still bigger than Jesus in Toronto.  When he shows up in the rink he gets more cheers than the team on the ice.  Maybe it is something that the younger players should learn.  You can’t fake heart.  You may score a lot of goals, but it takes more than that to be immortal.  Wendel’s place in Toronto hockey history is now set in stone.  The Leafs have raised his number to the rafters among the other greats of the past.  He deserves it.  We owe him no less than to always remember what he did.  Here is a video of the ceremony last night.  And, you should go back and check out the tribute videos as well.  It will remind you of how the game used to be played.

This is 4.5 minutes of amazing footage.  I don’t show too many car videos because most of them aren’t interesting.  Except the ones that involve cars running into something.  This is different.  No crashes.  No stupidity.  This is just awesomeness.  The first half of the video starts fairly slowly.  The awesomeness picks up very quickly after that.  When he drifts around a moving Segway my fucking jaw dropped!  Absolutely incredible footage.  Enjoy!

I had plans last night so I didn’t end up trading.  I only made two trades this week, but walked away with 20 pips.  That’s 50 pips in two weeks!  Not bad at all.  Depending on your trade values, that could $500 or $5000 or even more.  It sure beats what you would get at the bank.  And, it definitely beats what has happened to most people’s equity portfolios over the last month.  With that potential, why do I take days off?  Because I trade to live, not live to trade.  I feel no pressure to trade.  That allows me to be carefree and make good choices when I do trade.  And, it allows me to look up fun videos on YouTube!  Since  we are already on the hockey topic, the below clip seemed like a good idea.  I was watching this game and was hoping someone would post this hit online.  What I didn’t expect was that it would get up on the front page of Digg.  This is Jeff Finger of the Toronto Maple Leafs hitting Dainius Zubrus into the bench.

Sorry, no trade last night.  I was busy playing hockey.  Well, trying to play hockey.  Apparently some of our players think we can make it to the NHL and they bring an unnecessary passion.  Our goalie couldn’t keep his mouth shut and managed to get himself thrown out of the game.  Nice.  Then he refused to go to the dressing room so the ref called the game.  We were winning at the time but had to forfeit.  So, it took 2 hours to only play half a game.  Fucking idiots.  Anyways, since I didn’t get my fill of hockey last night I figured I would post something about the game.  Hockey isn’t a contact sport.  It’s an impact sport.  This is just a ridiculous hit by Doug Weight on Brandon Sutter.  I mean, this is about as painful as it gets.  Throwing an open ice hit at these speeds takes some skill.  Hopefully Brandon ends up being OK.  But, this was a completely legal check.  Now, international and some junior leagues have started to ban checks to the head.  To be honest, I am not sure how to avoid that at this speed.  If you have an opinion on this subject feel free to let me know.

I knew you would all love the Terry Tate Videos I posted on the weekend.  I have been getting some emails from people who never saw them before.  Shocking!  Let’s take a closer look at Terry Tate.  His history.  His role in Office Sports.  And, his place among the greats.

Oh man! How is it possible that I haven’t brought you the Terry Tate videos before? This was a Reebok ad campaign that was absolutely amazing. It is done in a sports feature style with this massive linebacker named Terry Tate. The catch: he is a linebacker in an office. These videos are freaking hilarious. God how I wish I could be an office linebacker! Well, Terry Tate hasn’t been around for a while. Something brought him back. Sarah Palin. Terry has a very painful message for Sarah Palin. Check out the original video introducing who Terry Tate is and then check out his new message for Palin.

*And now, his “meeting” with Sarah Palin…

Thanks to my friend Nik, I have found another set of funny videos! Human Giant is a sketch comedy show brought to us by the assholes at MTV. These clips are pretty damn funny too! It is hard to explain what they bring to the table. I will just let you watch this perfect example of what they do. Awesome.