A Very Bad Year

2008 is finally over, and it's been a very bad year for my investments.  At the closing bell today, my portfolio looks like this:

And over the course of the year ...

Not much to celebrate on this New Year's Eve, but reason enough for drinks aplenty.

While I'm disappointed, I'm not entirely morose: there are good years and bad years, and this has been one of the worst in recent memory.