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Consider it an experiment in web interactivity. Or, consider it a way to artificially inflate our hit count. Either way, just write in!

 
June 9, 2008,

Glub, glub!! We're drowning up here! Somebody shut off the faucet! Uncle!!!

--Drowning in Wisconsin

 
We'd love to help you, Drowning, but we're fighting off high winds and tornados down here. Anyplace you go you have to deal with some kind of bad weather. Don't believe us? Well then, try asking what place has the best weather in the world and see what your answer is.

 
June 9, 2008,

Brian:

Just wanted to let you know, my husband is looking for a job and your Rockwood Calendar is coming in very handy to keep track of interviews (he's a doctor and we have to fly to a lot of these places).

Thanks!

--Jane

 
Hmmm... that gives us an idea, Jane. Next year we'll sell the 2009 Rockwood Calendar as "medical equipment" so we can jack up the price! Thanks for the heads up!

 
June 9, 2008,

I noticed Al was continuing to read about Good Ol' Jim. I'll never forget waking up on saturday mornings to the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.

Happy trails Jim. Farewell.

--Bad Panda

 
It's hard to overstate how influential Jim McKay was in his lifetime even to people he didn't know. We've said previously that our Olympic obsession was at least partially due to McKay, and we have to believe that the phrase "agony of defeat" wouldn't have become so prominent in society if it wasn't for him. Even though he's been out of the booth for years, he will truly be missed in the world of sports.

 
June 9, 2008,

The media 'never' tells us to panic. They always tell the 'truth'. That's what they teach in Journalism school, right? You took that class (Creative Journalism editing 101)?

$4/gallon gas is nothing. It'll be $5/gallon by the 4th of July. And $10/gallon next summer.

--Jerry

 
Here at Team Rockwood, we like going against conventional wisdom, Jerry. And although we have no real financial background --and we certainly don't recommend you base your investments on our crackpot theories-- we have a hunch that oil prices might already be higher than can be sustained.

In the early '80s, oil was supposed to be the "new economy," and prices were supposed to rise forever, making everyone investing in oil rich. Then the prices crashed. In the '90s, the dot-com boom was the "new economy," and a company that Team Rockwood invested in went from $10/share all the way down to $0.01/share. In this century, the real estate market was the "new economy" and now the bubble has burst on that as well.

So where are we now on oil? Well, supply is up, demand is down, and the price is still rising? Plus now even the Saudi's think the price is too high. And people are telling us that this is the "new economy" and that prices will rise forever into the future? Again, we're not financial planners, so don't change your investments because of us, but something smells fishy here. We wouldn't be surprised about $5/gallon since some places are close to that already, but it wouldn't shock us at all if the price dropped soon.

Or, it could turn out we know nothing and we all end up paying what the Europeans pay. Let's hope we're right.