February 6, 2026 Breakfast - Lax and Bagel. Lunch - No. 16 at Lime Dinner - Paella and Potage

February 6, 2026 Breakfast - Lax and Bagel. Lunch - No. 16 at Lime Dinner - Paella and Potage 

I woke up at 8:00 and dressed and helped Suzette load a couple of heavy items into the Highlander.

Then I watched the market take off. It almost recovered all of the losses of the last three days by the close. My portfolio had its best day ever, gaining 3.58% and finishing within .344% of its level four days ago.

It was like somewhere someone turned a switch to risk on from risk off.

At 9:00 I toasted two slices of bagel and spread them with cream cheese and I sliced the last of the lax and several slices of red onion and tomato and garnished the bagels with them and a few capers and drank hot tea and reveled in the rapid ascendancy of the market. The Dow ended up over 1200 points and the NASDAQ ended up 490 points.

Gold and Bitcoin were up also.

I talked to Scott for a while and then Aaron called and said he was available for lunch. We decided to meet at Lime for No. 16, our new favorite dish, a bowl of chicken soup with egg vermicelli noodles and wontons and pork.

Aaron ate only about 1/2 of his and I ate even less, so we each took soup home.

After lunch I drove to Cafe Istanbul and bought feta cheese, dolmas, z’atar for Suzette, and a large bottle of cracked green olives.

Then I drove to Smith’s on Carlisle where I bought milk, a baguette, a can of condensed milk, bread crumbs, and six bone in rib steaks on digital special at $6.99/lb.

When I returned home I was tired and ate an apple and rested until Suzette arrived at around 3:30. We were both hungry so we decided to add leftover shrimp and chicken and a diced smoked pork chop that we sautéed to the paella left from last night’s dinner at Vara and share the paella as an early dinner.

I opened the bottle of Finger Lake Seneca rose and Suzette drank a Negra Modelo. The paella went from mostly seasoned rice to mostly meat with bits of rice. 

After dinner I walked around the block that got me to nearly 4000 steps. Suzette rested because she had already accumulated 7500 steps today.

Aaron called to tell me at 4:30 that Tall Grass has approved my request to transfer the Earn warrant from my IRA account to me individually. I think buying the $130,000 of shares and funding the warrant individually rather than in my IRA will greatly reduce the tax burden on my heirs, when I die, mainly because the sale of the shares will not be taxed if sold at a price close to the stepped basis value and avoid being taxed at ordinary income tax rates because they will not be distributed from my IRA.

We watched the news and then at 7:00 watched the Opening Ceremony for the Winter Olympics from Milan and Cortina, Italy until 9:30 when the torches were lit and Suzette went to bed.

I ate a bowl of warm Potage with minced garlic chives during the ceremony at around 8:30 and drank a cup of chai at 9:45 and went to bed to blog at 10:00.

Bon Appetit