I'll probably return home, take a couple Tylenol 2's, and go to bed. I've had two of these recently: one was excruciating; the other merely painful. O course the ill feeling is entirely that of the freezing coming out.

In a sense, isn't that what's happening in the market too?

Since the end of the last bear market in 4Q02, the owners and managers of capital have been anaesthetized by the sell side. As they sold their products and services in force, their pied pipers have marched our side into slavery.

But we have started to break those shackles. We are starting to see the light. It's called reality. You know: the dilemma of the Fed; the credit balloon; the risk side of derivatives markets; the power of an enlightened society in the emerging nations; and on and on.

Yes, we live in a dysfunctional world. Otherwise, I'd have perfect teeth!

I'm thinking of getting away for a week. I have two books to read.

One is fiction: Paradigm, a novel by Robert Taylor (March 2006). I just love the sub-head on the jacket: "What is tomorrow's Wall Street Journal worth to you today?"

But that's not fiction; I've been writing that for a couple years now, first as the Trader Wizard, and now under my real name.

Next is a non-fiction book: The Hydrogen Economy (August 2003) by Jeremy Rifkin.

The only thing that keeps me glued to my monitors is the need to prepare for the next bull market. You know, the one from 2006 through the 2008 Olympic Games in China.

Oh man, I see that the "Bond Guy" (they called him that, and not the Bond King) will be working CNBC alongside the 'Snow'man. I guess both have screwed up so badly, they need a change.