Sorry to take so long between posts, I am lazy moved and have been busy with a bunch of other stuff.

Moved into the same apartment complex as my Dad and Sister, although I'm living upstairs. Living upstairs is really nice. I have a better view, and I don't have to worry as much about thieves. Crooks are basically lazy, so they're a lot less likely to hit an upstairs apartment. If they did, they'd have to haul stuff up and down the stairs, and lemme tell ya, moving shit up and down stairs is a killer bitch. That's the one downside to living upstairs. However, I think everything else makes up for it. Especially the part about upstairs being more zombie-proof; just block off the stair cases and you're good to go stay.

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Got my tooth pulled, and it's healing up fairly nicely. I think. I mean, it's not something I've had done before, except for my wisdom teeth, and those were sewn up after being removed.

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Got my school money in, and have been putting stuff back towards preps. I got a bunch of things for my BOB, but I'll detail that in a later post.

For the AR, I rounded out my magazine collection, got 200 rounds of practice ammo, a few bandoleers to hold it all, and a surefire weaponlight.

I bought ten ounces of silver to put away. I know it's not much, but it's a start. I plan on buy about 5 ounces each month as a form of savings.

I ordered a solar charger for all our battery needs. A solar charger plus rechargeable batteries is a good combo for post-hurricane times. Still need to get a coleman stove and lantern, though.

The biggest surprise I got in all this was when my sister actually got enthusiastic that I was making her a BOB. She wants a full pack and not the the buttpack full of items that I had been collecting for her. She's even been making suggestions.

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Anyway, most of the preps were BOB-related, so I'll have to talk about them in that post I promised about my BOB.

Zombie Watch #4

http://blogs.moneycentral.msn.com/topstocks/?fpn=Zombie%20stocks%20make%20a%20killing>1=33009

Zombie stocks make a killing
Posted Sep 24 2009, 02:13 PM by Kim Peterson

Traders are hot on zombie stocks these days, trying to make a buck from companies everyone else has written off as dead.

Washington Mutual went bankrupt, but its stock is suddenly smoking -- gaining 64% Monday, the Los Angeles Times reports. No one really thinks the company is going to magically return to life soon, but investors are hoping even a tiny uptick in the share price will bring profits.

Remember Lehman Brothers? Shares of the bankrupt bank have quintupled in the last four weeks, the Times reports. And General Motors -- or, should I say, Motors Liquidation Co. (MTLQQ) -- has seen shares more than double.

It's a dangerous game, playing around in these stocks that common sense would tell you to stay away from. So who's dabbling in the dead?

Experts tell the Times that aggressive day traders are likely to blame. They're snapping up enormous volumes of the shares, looking for something as small as a 1-cent increase on a 1 million share block.

The economy has devastated some of the market's best-known names, creating a new breed of what the Times describes as "blue-penny stocks" (a blue-chip that has become a penny stock).

"You look at this using conventional valuation metrics and it makes no sense," one equity risk manager told the Times. "There's suddenly a huge potential for profit in these essentially worthless companies."