nightdog_barks: Drawing of a coyote (Coyote)
So this morning -- early morning, around 5:45 -- Layla was acting like she needed to go out (in reality, she was awake and just wanted to play), so I got up to let her out. While I was standing at the back door, I noticed what for all the world looked like an airplane (we live right on one of the flight paths for DFW Airport). I watched and watched, but it didn't move, and after a bit I realized it must be the planet Venus. And so it was. :D

I mean, I've seen Venus before, and Mars and Jupiter, and I can i.d. the big three of super-basic constellations, like the Big Dipper, Little Dipper, and Orion's belt. But holy shit, this morning it was so bright and so close. It was amazing.
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Dow Falls

See that? That's the Dow falling almost 1,000 points in the space of about ten minutes. It's coming back up (it's down about 460 right now). The news and financial guys are talking about the Greek crisis and a possible series of fat-fingered transactions in which Proctor & Gamble and Apple (and some other companies) stock prices suddenly plunged -- the latter for no reason.

ETA that CNBC is reporting human error as the culprit. Someone at one of the major trading firms ... entered a "B" instead of an "M" on the trade. Which made it BILLIONS instead of MILLIONS. And now the Dow is rising (mostly). LOL! ETA PART TWO that multiple sources are naming Citigroup as the winner of the Doofus of the Trading Day Award.

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