In a stroke of pure prognosticacian genius I shall be in Vegas at Caesar's Palace on February 16. Cleopatra's Barge still rocks and her enormous mammaries have been freshly painted. However the ladies shaking their booties have grown much, much younger since I first visited the place at the opening in 1964. Could it be time for at least a small celebration in anticipation of a much bigger one when the gold hopefully starts to flow or whatever the hell gold does. If any of you good folks are planning to be in Vegas Feb. 16 to 21 let me know and I'll buy you as many free drinks as you can safely handle at the Diamond Lounge where the drinks are great and, more importantly. free as long as you don't include the retirement funds we have all lost in the casino in order to qualify for admitance.

What is the deal with the price increase on double the volume? Could it be the PEA or perhaps some takeover rumours? I will not be a happy camper if the NR to come boat has sprung a leak before arrival to us gneral public folks. Seems to be a pretty tight ship being run at Prodigy so I would be surprised if that were the case. While doing some tax loss selling of which I have much to do I could not restrain myself from buying a few more shares of PDG last week. As my somewhat better 1/2 tells me it shall be either the penthouse or the poor house. I am firmly convinced that it shall be the former although I have as yet been unable to convince my Spanish Princessesa to buy in.

Bonne Chance

Doc