Rambling -- Where I'm At -- May 11, 2022

As most of you know, I wanted to take the blog down while the NDIC website is down. The whole "purpose" of the blog is based on data from the NDIC website. See the current note at the top of the sidebar at the right.

By the way, that note is dynamic. A year from now it will be different.

Texas:

• the forecast is 90° to 100° F for as far out as the forecast will take us (ten days)
• my physical activity day, every day:
• one hour on the treadmill; moderate
• one hour on the bike: extreme (for me)
• one hour in the pool, swimming laps: leisurely, not aerobic
• a second hour in the pool if Sophia will join me

The blog, last Bakken blog standing, and ad-free:

• I live and breathe my blog.
• I've removed the ads (and the income). It was fun but Google didn't like my posts and told me to "color between the lines" if I wanted to continue with ads; it's not worth the aggravation so it's now back to an ad-free blog.
• I don't take my social security either; the government needs it more than I do (LOL);
• my only "competitor" all these years was the "Bakken Blog" -- some outfit out of McKenzie County. All of a sudden I can't find them on the net. They're on twitter, and they are on Facebook but they are no longer "on the net" free-standing; let me know if they are still there and I simply can't find them.
• if you google "bakken blog" -- it's my blog and that's it;
• thank you.

NDIC:

• I wanted to take the blog down while NDIC was down but I was frustrating too many readers trying to access "my" site, so I brought the blog back up.
• I won't ever quit blogging but it's not worth posting the blog if the NDIC is down.
• Readers disagreed, so the blog is back up -- against my better judgement.

Investing:

• number twelve on my list of the most important things in my life is "investing."
• number one? The grandchildren.
• I look at the world through various spectacles
• when I'm looking at the world through my "investing spectacles," some quick thoughts, none of which are to be taken out of context:
• investing, not trading
• accumulate short term with eye on long term
• right now, 12:24 p.m. CT, cash flow from oil companies
• accumulate those share to generate income to buy companies for the future
• no hurry to get back into tech
• my advice to my executor when she takes over the portfolio:
• avoid EVs
• pay attention companies who reward their shareholders
• oil: we are in a crude-oil super cycle; it may be the last real super-cycle; I'm taking advantage of it
• I stay fully invested. I accumulate more shares three times each month. Although I guess technically, it's twice a month, since the end of the month and the beginning of each month is pretty much one event. So, I guess, I add new shares twice a month.
  

Geo-politics:

• Russia is toast.

Time to go biking. Back later.