13th
What a strange two months it has been. Not the best, not the worst, and very memorable.
Back in early August, I was in the process of selling all my stock (phew!) in order to finish buying my first home. As soon as that was done, I spent three weeks moving in, along with my brother Brandon. It took all our weekend time, and most of our weekdays getting our new lives together.
After we had finally settled in for about a day, we got the bad news that my grandfather was in the last days of his life, and we had to come to Baltimore at once. While this was obviously the type of horrible call that we all fear getting, it’s really great that I got a chance to fly there for almost a full week to spend time with him in his last hours. This wouldn’t have been possible under most job scenarios, so I am lucky in this regard.
The following week I came back to San Francisco to squeeze in a ton of work time, as I knew that I would be crunched. Then it was back to Baltimore for memorial services, etc. There were so many people who came to my grandfather’s funeral that it was nothing short of a testament to him as a great man. I was very proud of what he had accomplished, and honored to be able to speak about him.
When I finally got back to California on the fourth day of the new month, I was looking forward to a bit of peace and productivity.
But then what happens?
The world economy collapses amidst a lot of postiive changes at Bleacher Report. While we feel as though our success should not be mitigated by forces outside our control, we still need to address these issues.
Nothing has come easy so far — everything is earned.
As for my opinion of the markets? It’s maddness. It’s ridiculous. It’s just silly. And that’s why I sold all my stock back in August (go back a few pages in my blog, and you can see my fortuitous opinions in their genesis.)
Things will be back to normal on bryangoldberg.com fairly soon.
