Ward Split, Mutual Funds, and Losing the Championship

So here it is, Thursday already and I've written nothing in my journal. Hasn't even really been any time to write. Sunday the wards split. Three wards out of two. The 230th ward is now pretty much anything north of 300 S, except Westbridge. Which means on one hand that we lose Erin and Patrick and Erica and Kristen and Mike (if he ever decides whether or not he's living here or at home). But at least we do get to keep all the cool people in Westbridge. The 229th ward, which we're now in, is basically the rest of us and the south half of the old 229th ward (everything west of 500 W and south of 300 S—basically the Boulders and a bunch of houses). And then they created a new ward with a new Bishopric out of the old 229th ward. Why they didn't make us the new ward beats me. We'll see how things go in time. Right now it's not making any difference in my social life.

As for juicy ward gossip, Mike and Candace have gotten together. Which is just wrong. Kristen is very ticked off at Mike about this. So is Kristen's family. Candace is still 19, after all. Mike's 25. And plus, they all know Mike's character, so they can all see that this doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of working out. [content edited because it's none of your business]

Well, enough about that. I also bought mutual funds this week. My insurance agent had called me into his office for an insurance evaluation, and we got to talking about investing and whatever (he is actually an investor in Corda), and I've been meaning to get into mutual funds sooner or later, so I decided to get started. I figure the market has hit bottom, so it's time to buy. I'm going to invest $250 a month for now. $150 goes into a Roth IRA portfolio. $50 goes into an S&P index fund, than unlike the IRA, I can get to if I have an emergency. And the other $50 goes into a similar bond fund. And the best thing is, it's all automatic withdrawal, so I don't have to think too much about it. And that's what sold me. I think I can get better rates with less fees elsewhere, but I just don't have the time or know-how right now to worry about it.

The only other thing worth mentioning is the championship game tonight. Actually, it ended up being a final four between us, Andy's team, Don Clark's team, and Ring of Fire. I guess they caught on to the fact that our victories on Saturday were against inferior teams. Well, we played Don's team to start with and we got our butts kicked. We had too many people on the team, so we could never get into a groove. At first I was trying to be polite and letting everybody play. But the built up a lead quickly, and I just decided it was time to do something about it. Towards the end there, we really started to make progress, and I really think a lot of it was the fact that I stayed out there for all the points and took over handling. We were down like 14-4 or something, and we scored the next 5 points. But it was too little too late. I blame myself for their last score though. I underestimated Don's throwing abilities and poached my man just a little too much. Had I another step or two on my man, we could have stopped them. But I'm sure we couldn't have stopped them forever. Andy's team then beat them in the championships. By about 2 or 3 points. It was a pretty good game to watch, and Don's team was up for a while, but they've got a lot of inexperience, and that cost them in the end.

Posted June 26, 2003 (11:51 PM) | Comments (1)