Last week we were fortunate enough to obtain a Wii for our house.  I have to say, I am quite amazed by this new console- and I have a feeling that it will be the clear leader in the latest release of the console wars- here are some reasons why:

If you haven't tried it yet- it is certainly worth a look- even if you don't really play video games, you will love this system.

October brought some new 52-week highs to GME- which is pretty cool for me to see having been long since June.  So far an average of +35% return- nice.  Stick with GME for at least the rest of the year- its going to be a great holiday season :)

On the other hand, the Utility fest of fall and winter has just started- however I decided to take my meger profits on TE at the end of October...  I figured that this one was a little too risky as no movement happens even on good news- but bad news would send it to the gutter.  I also got into CAPS from The Montley Fool on the lookout for some community-spotted stars to put the cash into.  After some filtering, I decided to get into GW - seems like a pretty good deal to me and will hopefully start seeing around 9-10 by January.  Keep an eye out for EZM and CRI though- these are still on my watch-list.  Have a good November- good luck!

I found this very interesting set of pages by chance the other day.  In my mind, this guy has some really good ideas and mostly it is a shame that a lot of them have just been left on the table...

In particular, I really like the ideas on energy found here.  I think someone needs to figure out a way to get this guy to create his full scale model and have it at least available to those interested.  I mean, I get his agruments about not doing it, really...  But I believe that if this device actually could work as he states, then it could change the world for the better.

I also found the air conditioning and heating article to be quite interesting as well.  Imagine having unlimited cool air under your house for the entire summer and then in the winter having a good supply of hot air under the house as well.  It could easily save thousands per year.  Check it out here.

There are other articles, but these seemed to be the most interesting ideas to me.  I may end up writing to him- maybe even attempt to convince him to release his solar power generator to someone in the world...  who knows?

Well, the move is over (or still going on depending on how you look at it).  Things went pretty well with the logistics of moving the fish tanks and items over- no one or thing was lost, so it counts as a success!  Sadly there was a lot of cleaning to do because our sellers left the place a little foul.  Things just shouldn't have to be that way- we left our old house a palace for our buyer and she knew it (which was cool).  We did take *everything*, but at least we left it quite clean.

Just this weekend, we installed our old outside lights along the walkway and they look very nice.  We hope that they will help light the walkway as it was really dark out there at night.  We also pulled about a years worth of weeds (go figure) out of the front beds.  I am also getting used to the maintinance of the grass and am almost caught up on it- given it was super long when we got there.  It is a lot more than I am used to, but it is certainly cool!  Now we just need to get the inside all de-boxed and then things will be set!  Of course, it's time to paint again, but thats not too horrible...