Portfolio of the Week

[skiracer]

Ski, Mary,
We've got an awesome Maine Coon cat. I'll try to post a picture. We had real racoons on the back porch and the cat dwarfed them.

-------------billyjoe

Just curious but did yours have six toes like ours? I have to find a picture of her.

[Tatnic]

That was you? hey! I want my hammer back, that was a top-of-the-line Estwing you know!?

Lye...I don't care what anyone else says about you, you're finest kind!

[billyjoe]

Just curious but did yours have six toes like ours? I have to find a picture of her.

Ski,
Nope, only 5 big toes.

--------billyjoe

[skiracer]

This is one of my favorite pictures of her. She liked to lie in this one spot where the sun came in through the window and if you felt her head right there it was almost hot from the warmth of the sun. She was a beauty and had about 5 colors in her coat. She was 15 when she passed on. She died while I was holding her in my arms at the vets. I never loved another animal the way I did this cat. My wife still can't talk about her after two years. She was really my wife's cat and would follow her around wherever she went in or out of the house. You would think she was sleeping but she was watching everything out of those slits.

[Mary]

Mary's second POTW pick

Hey Ski ...

Put me in VIAC this week, long please. Thanks!

Mary

[IIC]

lol.. the last time a bunch of good 'ol boys (drunks) tried to attack me (there were 4 of them) I laid two of them out and then started wrecking their car with rocks. One tried to pull a hammer on me so I figured I was justified. This happened in front of funeral home in Radford VA while I was walking around the neighborhood looking for my girlfriend's cat. Maybe one of them was you...if it was, I apologize for that beatin', but you guys started it!

Hey Tat!!!...Did you ever find the cat???

[Karel]

Long PCCC

Peter, Peanuts, and NBB, good job! I am still long PCCC.

Regards,

Karel

[peanuts]

Dear Mr. Skiracer, sir

First of all, I would like to reach out and smack HUGE Peter Hanson for stealing the gold this week! Normally, I would be very happy for such a fine performance, but when the glory is stolen from me, I want to see blood. Just kidding, Pete, that was a great find and a great long, so I guess that makes you absolutely 100% $$$HUUUUUGE$$$ Way to go!

NBB, well, dude, it looks like me and you are only BIG this week. I was going to declare a tie if we had ended in the top spots, but that Pete guy whipped us like we were Wisconsin sweet butter. Nice short play!

Skiracer, for the following week, I would like to start with a long position in XTXI. Thank you very much, and keep up the great work!

[Gary611]

Let it Ride!!

Good luck to all, please stay with THI long for the week.

-Gary

[IIC]

SKI...You missed Spike's pick...I'm considering one in the same group...IIC

[diogenes]

Long USD aka Ca$h

Ski- Thanks for taking over.

Start me with ca$h.

[jiesen]

POTW Weeks 31-43 Cumulative Results

Here are the K-data (based on previous 13 weeks of POTW) results for weeks 31-43. It's ranked by "special K", or Cumulative Gain (%) / Weeks played.




Weeks 5-17 (and 3-15)
Weeks 7-19
Weeks 9-21
Weeks 11-23
Weeks 13-25
Weeks 15-27
Weeks 17-29
Weeks 19-31
Weeks 21-33
Weeks 23-35
Weeks 25-37
Weeks 27-39
Weeks 29-41

DMK is HUGEagain but ROB is EVEN HUGER, squeaking past DMK with a 0.01% better special-K factor. Of course, having DMK's 35% gainer fall off this time was what brought him back down to the sub-supernatural plane. And a hearty congrats goes out to our 3rd place winner, STKY, who managed to average a 2% weekly gain over 13 weeks of play. Not bad for a kid still in high school, eh?

Congrats also to Diogenes, Park Twain, and Gatorman for respectable gains in a rough quarter.

So, it looks like Rob is going out with style, and taking the gold with him. (Please do come back, Rob, when you've cooled off a bit... you were the best scorekeeper ever, and I don't think I can manage to do this again without your nicely organized POTW data.) Ski, your efforts are very much appreciated, and I know it's not easy to keep this going- especially to the standard that Rob's set- but keep it up! You'll find it much easier once you've had a few weeks under your belt.

[jiesen]

They will be taking a few more blood tests on Mon. I have a positive out look so every thing will be a ok. By the way my daughter Is coming along well her ankle and one wrist Is healed well, It's a long way back but she will heal. count your blessings, the room that I was In was a man 51 years old that contacted a virus In the brain they have no cure.

Ray,

I'm glad to hear that your daughter is doing well, and you're back home from the hospital. Being stuck in a hospital is no fun- especially since there's no POTW in the hospital! Makes me want to go out and enjoy the health I've got... in fact, I'm going to do just that right now.

[jiesen]

Ski,

Please put me in AMLN long for next week.

Thanks!

[skiracer]

Some of the early plays for this coming week. Just to help in not having any duplicate plays and to get the whole picture of what the early going is shaping up to be for this week. I'll try to keep it updated occassionally during the day today and tonight. I also might have to change the background colors to blue and gold in celebration of Notre Dame's convincing win over Univ. of North Carolina yesterday. GO IRISH!!! and bring on USC!!!