I decided not to get up in early morning on Friday to catch up the diary for yesterday but do it now, it is 16 minutes to midnight.
JP Morgan released somewhat positive earnings and forecast, which I didn't learn in detail. However, markets responded with excitement. Dimon seemed mentioning US Economy being healthy, he probably wanted to be a hero again. My GTZ portfolio bumped up 6.4% when markets closed. Gopro shot up by almost 20% because a respected designer was hired from Apple. I am pretty sure it to be a turnaround story. In Waikiki, I saw its products in several beach oriented stores, which made sense. Back in Seattle, I observed Hero 4 series presented in Fred Meyer as well, which might indicate its popularity to be extended to mass markets. We will hear good news for this quarter, I believe.
I left home not too late but encountered massive backup on I-405 Southbound when approaching Kirkland. Fortunately, I had prepared for it because I did hear traffic reporter at Spirit 105.3 saying an accident causing huge congestion but hadn't caught where it was. At that point of time, I might not pay attention to what she said at the beginning. When I saw the warnings on the message board hung over the freeway, which said 4 miles backup from 8th Street in Bellevue where the earlier accident incurred, I immediately realized what happened and got out of the exit of 124th Street in Kirkland. Driving onto 124th Street, then turning onto 124th Ave, I followed a service truck for a while. The pace was slow but traffic was normal.
I was very familiar with Kirkland at both sides of the freeway. Before getting a more meaningful job in early 1998 when I just came back to US after almost 10 years, I ever tossed Wall Street Journals to the front yards of the subscribers' houses in west side of the freeway in Kirkland from 11:00 pm to 2:00 am the next morning every night for 3 weeks. The first week, a very nice retiree sat in my car to guide me through the delivering route. In the following week, I drove through the neighbourhood myself by following his instruction recorded on the tape. In the 3rd week, I already made this journey automatically. Of course, almost everyday, new subscribers were added and existing ones dropped, so I had to adjust the route flexibly in my mind. At the end of the 3rd week, I got a job as computer sales at the eastside of freeway in Kirkland. Tell you the truth, I still miss those three weeks, I should go back to that route sometime. After coming back from Chicago, I was hired as a staff account by Waste Management Snoking Operation in Kirkland for a short period of time in 2000. Every working day, I drove through 124th Street. In 2005, I did consulting work for Aerojet located in a business park on Willow Road Everyday, I drove through the local route in Kirkland after getting out of the exit of 160th Street in the morning and before getting onto I-405 from the entrance at the same street to head home in the afternoon. While driving on 132nd Ave to appreciate the quietness, I heard traffic reporter saying only one accident on I-5 being handled. Did it mean the massive backup on I-405 having been cleared?
Driving onto 140th Ave, I made up my mind to get back onto I-405 after passing 8th Street because I should be able to bypass the spot of the accident.
Getting onto I-405 South at the entrance of 12th Street in Bellevue, I drove to the office on wide opened road. I didn't know if the backup had been dissolved but was happy to arrive at the office within an hour, which was even faster than in normal mornings.
On my way home in the evening, I seemed hearing on the radio that Mariners walked away with a win in the final home game before heading to NYC to play Yankees. It sounded a big night for NBA because Kobe Bryant would retire. I was tired and fell into sleep quickly after watching a MLS match - Timbers hosting FC Dallas for a short period of time. As I remember, they quickly lost to visitors several goals in the beginning.
After Colorado gave the win to Cruz completely, Missouri decided Trump and Clinton winning of the leftovers after so many weeks.
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