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dreamProject

3:26am CST Friday 25 February 2000

I just woke up cleanly from a clear dream. Wende and I were trying to find the owner of a cat, and we went to the cat's apartment, which was right down the street from me.. We had never met the people before, but I talked to the guy about this idea I had for using the Internet to connect people with special talents and skills. In my dream, he thought it was a great idea. Bing I woke up.

Here's the idea in a nutshell: use the Internet to connect people with special talents to people who have a project that needs those special talents.

1) Have jillions of people visit a data collecting website and enter their talents, skills, resources, and contact information.

2) People with a project in mind would enter what type of skills they need for a project. The database would present a list of matching skills but with no names or contact information. The project person could then send an email to a specific email address that would send it to each of the people in the new list. Each individual could respond if they were interested in the project.

There. That's the project. Now if only there was a website that could help me find people with the following skills:

Project: eProjects.com

• someone to market the site and concept
• someone who can write the database and interface
• a server on which to host the site
• someone with cash to pay for the server and marketing
• help brainstorming how to make people *want* to visit the site and type in all their special skills
• help brainstorming how to jog people's memories of their hidden talents

Brugh Joy, MD has written at least two books. In one of them, he described having a vision of the chapter outline of a book he would write. He tried to put it out of his mind and sleep, but could not. He wrote down the outline from his vision, then was able to sleep.

It's now 3:48am. I'm going back to sleep.

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investmentClub

5:36am CST Friday 25 February 2000

I couldn't sleep after I wrote the previous message.. not out of astonishing giddiness, but more of a nagging things-to-do-list. I remembered I still had to research online brokerages for our investment club meeting this Saturday!

Since the meeting is tomorrow, I figured I oughta get the research out of the way ahead of time. Instead of doing full blown tons of info research, I looked for basics: minimum balance, cost per trade, can we fund the account with cash or checks?, can we write checks from the account?

I'm leaning towards TD Waterhouse. They have checkwriting, initial balance of only $1000, $12 per trade, and local office in the Galleria area.

Plus, I already have an account there. The club and I will both get free trades if I refer the club to Waterhouse. I will tell the group upfront about this added bonus; even without it, I think they're the best option we have!

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