Piggy goes to market

Here's a great explanation of how not approving a $700 billion bailout/loan plan cost us $1.2 trillion on Monday.

[Ed. Things have gotten even more volatile since I posted this. It is becoming apparent that the gesture of loaning $700bln did very little, but hopefully the details of the implementation will calm fears and open the credit markets again...]

Ike's other victims...

The cars. Abandoned amidst the storm. This is the saddest classified ad I have ever seen....not just the picture, but read the item description.

I submitted this to Jalopnik, maybe someone press will get this guy some decent bids.

Best of Baby Eidson

Susan will have the Baby Eidson blog updates soon, but in the meantime, here are my favorite pics...

Baby Eidson Update

The hurricane that is William Henry Eidson was unleashed upon the world on Monday September, 8th at 7am, and was followed shortly thereafter by hurricane Ike. Susan's recovery was incredibly fast and almost pain free, and we left the hospital just in time to take cover from the storm. Here's a timeline:

Monday - William born
Thursday - discharged from hospital at 12pm, go to JV (northwest Houston)
Friday - Wait for storm
Saturday - clean up 2 massive trees that fell in parents' yard
Sunday morning- check on our house in Pearland - no fence, damaged roof, and water spots all over the ceiling (mostly upstairs)
Sunday evening - pack up again and head to Edna Texas..... two nights without power + newborn + wife recovering from major surgery = pandelerium, so we decided to head south and get some AC and safe drinking water.

On our way out we saw some chaos - hundreds (yes, hundreds) of people lined up outside of a Walmart, gas lines 30 cars long, and no power all along the west Beltway. But, Hooters on 59 South had power and was serving people - if there was ever an excuse to go to Hooters (never been myself) now would be the time....