Hugh's Worthless Blog

I recently discovered that Aaron Shust is releasing a second album ("Whispered and Shouted") this summer on June 5 and that you can pre-order it on his site at aaronshust.com for only $9.95 which includes free shipping, 3 bonus streaming songs and the ability to start listening to the new album starting May 1. What a deal! His first album, "Anything Worth Saying" is also available there for only $14.95 and if you order both you get free shipping on the whole order (and no tax either). That means a total of $24.90 for both albums plus the bonus songs and early access to hear the "Whispered and Shouted" album. You can't beat that deal! I really liked his first album which had a lot of good songs on it that would be good choices for our church praise band, Joyful Noise (at Mount Zion United Methodist Church in Creve Coeur, Missouri) to perform in one of our services. Hey, that almost sounds like an advertisement doesn't it?

I cannot believe the big deal everybody is making over the stock market dip that occurred on Tuesday (Feb 27). Sure the Dow dropped 416 points that day, but that was from a quite lofty 12,632 the day before to a point where it had been only in late November 2006. It's amazing how when the Dow continually hit all time highs just a week or two ago nobody was making a big fuss about it, but when it then drops 4% to end where it was late last fall people are all doom and gloom. If you look at the more broadly based S&P 500 it dropped about 50 points to close at 1399 dropping a more modest 3.47% after it had increased 15.8% in 2006. In fact after yesterday's small rebound to 1406.82 the index is just a little under 10 points under where it was at the end of the year. Big deal. If a 3-4% drop scares people they should not be in the stock market! Think of poor old Bill Gates. According to the Yahoo Finance , Mr. Gates owns 921 million shares of Microsoft which dropped $1.20 to $27