Thank you, Howard Stern!

[susandennis]

While waiting for someone to get back to me about a web page, I flipped over to check my stocks.

I have all 9 of them laid out on a Yahoo Finance page. Usually, when I click on the link to it, I first notice how many of them are showing red. As with political maps, red is not good. Red is bad. Then I check the bottom of the column showing today's gain in a dollar amount and usually see that it, too, is red or black and small.

Today, I clicked on it and saw that four out of the 9 are showing red but that the today's gain amount is a nice, black $155.23. This is a lovely surprise. I looked at the detail and discovered that my Sirius stock has had a serious (pun intended) gain. At the bottom of my stock page are links to 'recent news' about my stocks and the top headline is [$$] Stern to Move From Viacom To Satellite Broadcaster Sirius. I've always considered him an obnoxious idiot but today I think of him more as a profit center. Bless his heart.

If this keeps up I could recoop all my losses and get back up to the amount I put into the Ameritrade account in the first place. As it is now, I'm only down about 5% total.

If I were smart, I'd probably sell those SIRI shares today. But, when I was standing in line trying to decide between beauty and brains, I looked over and the beauty line was much shorter...