(written on December 2nd and 4th) The trading week started again, and... I lost a lot of my self discipline and returned to my emotional trading ways. 😞 I spent a good while working with customer service, one of the issues being my trying to figure out how to change my default share size, which … Continue reading 2025-11-11 (Tuesday) — Trading… Down. 😕

(Written on December 2nd and 4th) I'm alive! No one came to this creepy-ish little place and killed me in the night. 🙃 💪 Obviously, it wasn't really named Garbage Falls--Wairua Falls, actually. But after a good little while collecting garbage and piling it up, including about a dozen tires dumped in the shrubs, this … Continue reading 2025-11-10 (Monday) — A Little Tire-ing

(written on December 2nd and 4th) It was nice to be the only one at the dunes early this morning, the crowds of yesterday chased off by the earliness of the hour. I had thought that maybe I'd hike across the dunes all the way to 90-mile beach--that's actually the main reason I came all … Continue reading 2025-11-09 (Sunday) — Great Dunes and Garbage Falls

(written on the 30th from notes) Not a lot to say about today. I was up again at 12:45 a.m. for trading, and I did really well!!! I was lucky though. I've had a couple of mistakes because of the clunkiness of trading with a cell phone. 😅 Fortunately, the errors worked out in my … Continue reading 2025-11-08 (Saturday) — Trading Up!

(Written on the 29th and 30th from notes taken previously) Started trading again about 12:45 a.m. (big time-zone difference. 🙃) Almost right away I had a great gain and could have stopped early with like $175 of profit after only just a brief period trading. Buuuuuuut I wanted a round number like $180 or $200 … Continue reading 2025-11-07 (Friday) — Spirits Up

(written on the 27th and 28th from Google Maps stalker data and other memory-trigger data 🙃. And finally got things fixed enough to add a picture of my van to my post for the 1st) Woke up, gratefully able to sleep on the side of the main road in and out of town. Grateful for … Continue reading 2025-11-06 (Thursday) — Let’s Get Organized!

(written on the 26th) Helped a couple of German girls with their car this morning. They were trying to figure out where to put their windshield washer fluid, so I showed them where to put it, but it looks like their washer fluid pump is broken. 😕 Speaking of which (I think it was today?) … Continue reading 2025-11-05 (Wednesday) — Bum Bays

(written on the 26th from notes taken previously) Well... bad morning. I'm on a pretty rough spiral addiction wise--all of them. 😕 Finally got away from the library parking lot probably sometime around noon and started making my way north along the coast. The windy roads through bright green hills brought out my concern with … Continue reading 2025-11-04 (Tuesday) — Mega Conch

(written on November 26th from notes taken previously) I was a bit antisocial this morning. The gentleman doing the van life thing in the van next to me was up early and chilling in a lawn chair next to his van eating breakfast and whatnot. But being a bit antisocial this morning, I stayed in … Continue reading 2025-11-03 (Monday) — Muchos Errandos

(written on the 25th from notes taken previously) Sunday in New Zealand means college football Saturday in the United States. 😅 New Zealand is 20 hours ahead of the Mountain Time Zone I was in before heading out here, which means some football games start at 6:00 a.m. here. It's great. 🙃 Headed into the … Continue reading 2025-11-02 (Sunday) — No Glow, Less Glass