01
MARCH 4, 1994
Opened 3,832.02. Closed 3,832.30. Twenty-eight cents. I ate a turkey sandwich, because it was Friday, and on Friday the sandwich is turkey.
Gus has been at his desk since 1994.
Gus woke up in 2021.
A DIARY, IN SEVEN ENTRIES
02
NOVEMBER 12, 2003
Nine years. The index has doubled. My chair has a groove in it shaped like me.
FLAT03
JANUARY 8, 2021
Delaney showed me a coin named after a dog. No product. No revenue. No plan. Up four hundred percent since breakfast.
+400%04
JANUARY 9, 2021
Bought the dog. Two hundred dollars. Did not tell my wife, Delaney, or the compliance officer.
$20005
MARCH 2021
Down ninety-four percent. I have not slept. I have not been this awake since the Clinton administration.
-94%06
2023
Delaney asked what I trade now. Equities, I said. On my second monitor a frog in a wizard hat was worth eleven million dollars.
WIZARD HAT07
TODAY
Headphones on. Nothing has moved on the first monitor since 2019. Everything moves on the second. I am at my desk. Ask anyone.
+1You write 08.
GUS HAS RUN OUT OF DIARY. KEEP IT SHORT, KEEP IT FLAT, LET THE NUMBER DO THE FEELING.
The gallery
EVERY 08 ANYONE HAS WRITTEN. THE ONE IN FRONT AT MIDNIGHT IS KEPT. THE REST ARE BURNED.
PICK ONE, OR WRITE YOUR OWN ABOVE.