It’s a Friday night at the start of a three-day weekend. We have one of my wife’s friends and her two girls over this evening for tacos, which is something you don’t get to eat very often in Japan.

Gave notice at my job this week and soon after realized that I still have 29 days of vacation left, so I will work the rest of this month and take next month off. While vacationing on my regular job during March, will try to pickup a consulting gig, so that I can make a little extra money for the computer upgrade to a 17″ MacBook Pro.

Forex

Nothing spectacular this week with a couple of swing trades and about a US$100 gain. Not bad for playing with only about $900. And even better when you consider that I only started with $464. I read a strategy column on EUR/USD about a month ago that stated the EUR would climb to about 1.4900 then retreat down to the 1.43 level, then shoot back up. Well the EUR is at 1.4489 and I am kind of nervous. Have been making money on trades this week with shorts, but am not too comfortable going into another short trade with this pair floating at such a low level. Any way, in a few minutes will pull out of this trade and go long at about the 1.446x level with a take profit at about 1.453x then close out the week. Suspect that there will be a spike on Monday…. we’ll see.