Just before buying or selling a big batch of shares for clients on this big desktop terminal in front of me, I'd enter a similar trade on my personal ...ccount through a BlackBerry. As soon as the client trade cleared, prices would respond accordingly, then I would reverse the personal trade, selling or repurchasing at the new price and pocketing the difference. A price shift of even 1% quickly built up, repeated once or twice a day, into a sizeable nest egg on the side.The clock dragged slowly. I went downstairs to the kitchen and got myself a beer from the fridge. I noticed that the answering machine had several messages so I hit the play button. Two telephone solicitors and then a mans voice followed the time stamp for yesterday, "I'll be there at 5 Babe. Are we staying in or going out? Give me a call." Another solicitor and then a mans voice with today's time stamp, "Yo Bev. I got the beer and the condoms. I'll see you at 4. Bye." A woman's voice was next, "Beverly, you slut. Did. ’----Prince Harry’s Bachelor Party - Quote of the DayIt’s really weird stuffing money into a stripper’s G string when every bill has a photo of your grandmother printed on it.”Compliments of technomage‎Unitarian Universalist jokesQ: What do you get when you cross a UU with a Jehovah’s Witness?A: Someone who knocks on your door for no apparent reason.You May Be A Unitarian Universalist If... you think socks are too formal for a Summer serviceyou think the Holy Trinity is “reduce, reuse and. I stopped pacing. Francine didn’t stumble because she was drunk or high. I eliminated both possibilities. Did she stumble because she was ... turned on? All she did was look at me. I wasn’t that much to look at either, especially after the day I’d had. She couldn’t have been that turned on.Then I recalled the other two women. They came out of the same shadowy hideaway Francine had. Had the three of them been doing something other than talking? Considering Francine’s lack of attire, I couldn’t.