My two favorite pastimes are buying shares on the stock exchange and gambling in online casinos. Up until last week I was fairly successful at both. I have a few losses from time to time, but overall I win. I generally finish the month with spending money for a family dinner at some fancy restaurant or an extravaganza show with expensive seats. I also find that if I am making on the stock exchange, I am losing in the online casinos and vice versa. Sometimes I “steal” funds from one to subsidize the other, but I always return the loan and balance my books, so to speak. Everything was going swimmingly until last week when there was an earthquake in the American housing sector - something to do with prime rate mortgages that I didn’t really understand. This little earthquake, just like the one we saw a couple of years ago in East Asia, set off a tsunami. Like that other tsunami which started off with 200 dead after a few hours, grew to a thousand the next day and finished up with something like two hundred thousand lost souls, this wave sweeping across the stock exchange floor is much more destructive than any one imagines. So I have pulled away from it and made the Velvet Slipper my home base until calm waters return to the online gambling world. And all the time I thought that out in cyberspace everything would remain well balanced no matter what dramas were being played out in the little banks around the world. To make me feel a little better, my favorite roulette wheel which definitely shows feelings of emotion such as anger, forgiveness and sympathy did me proud last night and brought me a considerable win. I started off by putting a ten dollar chip on number nineteen, and let it ride while I watched it come up an again, meaning that I had twelve thousand dollars after two spins. I then bet the whole lot on Red and I logged out with close to twenty five thousand dollars in my credit account. That same evening I dropped another thousand on my stock portfolio. All this goes to show that not all online casinos are equal! Posted on: August 9, 2007
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