Random Musings - Day #127

Brandy
I got a phone call from my sister. Her friend had bailed out due to sickness. So a ticket going a spare. Help a family member out and go to a gig at the same time. So off to the Indig02, we went to see Brandy perform. First up was a warm up act, who I thought was called 'S-stream' but I can't find them on google. Anyhow, Brandy didn't mess about straight into 4 songs including "Afrodisiac" and "What about us". She next did "Almost doesn't count" before a medley of her early stuff. Then some new material from latest album. But the best bit was perhaps when she got a guy from the audienc and serenaded him with the song, "Long Distance". I think this was the first leg of her tour. But she was very appreciative of the audience especially you read what's happened to her. The audience btw were standing throughout the show and Brandy's performance was pretty slick (let's not forget, she can act too). My only real gripe was that the show was too fast. It only lasted 55 - 60 minutes, which isn't good value for money. Brandy's performance just about makes up for it. After her set, she came back out to the audience, meet and greeted a few people, signed a few autographed and actually wanted to go up to the balcony!

Station Update
It's 2-1 to 'Closed' as today the ticket office at the local station was closed. Yesterday, it was open.

2.19 is not my favourite number
The FTSE-100 was up 2.19 pts today, which is nothing much. But that doesn't tell half the story. It opened 50 pts up and then went up. I had feeling it would go down so I put in a very small binary bet just to see what would happen (sell at 82). It didn't look good so I just ignored it until after lunch. When I did look it was only 60pts up and I thought it may go down, so sold again this time at 92). The market went down and about 15 minutes left it was down by 15pts. I had already hedged my bets by buying back at 59, earlier, to put me in a no-lose situation. However at close, it looked like it was down by only 7.73. I should have won but about 5 minutes after the close it jumped to finish above the previous close. I just wonder if that was fixed. It like someone scored a late goal to knock me out of the champions league final...