A long time with no update!!!!
There is actually not a lot to report lately... the last days have been kind of boring but here we go.
I could finally find a decent exit point for MSFT ($28.50) and CSCO ($24.11) so that I could finally say that I am back at square one compared to the beginning of the year. Pretty much even. However, of course, I made another investment that doesn't seem to be panning out.
ORCL was trading barely below $11 and I thought it was a good entry point; well, suffice it to say that it is now trading at $10.26 so not a good investment at all.On other fronts a good friend of mine just had his citizenship ceremony which I attended as guest... lots of people and with emotional parts such as the oath of citizenship and the national anthem at the end.
Musically, Parsifal has finally lost the grip it had on me. It was difficult but I think I am going to go to other works before going back to it. Right now, the bulk of my music-listening time is devoted to Beethoven's 9th symphony (choral) and also to his 3rd (Eroica). Real masterpieces of art... what a joy listening to those glorious works.. it's amazing that those feelings and how they are conveyed were created by a human being that was tortured beyond its existence, the mark of a real genius.
In terms of reading I have been catching up in my history books (currently I am reading H.G. Wells "The outline of history") and some classics as well (William Blake's "The marriage of heaven and hell").