Two mirrors would indeed add up to 14 years. That's true. I think I've broken a lot more than two, tho, in my days as construction and restoration and salvage Diva. So we'll hope that's not it.
My stock-picking is just as primo.
Show me a company with the PE, market share, cash, and technology pipeline of NMGC, (I admit, one of my "favorite' companies ~ they build what others cannot, in the crucial business of energy-saving notebook devices) ~ and new product divisions coming on, and I will be....... uhm.....surprised.
I was big behind SUNW and ADBE......I mean I researched their slots and niches and market dominance just the way I do everything and "believed" in them too ~ and don't think I made a dime out of either of them. Gave up, after watching them be valuation-ridiculed for 6-9 months. Needed to put the goddam money, my only asset besides work and intelligence, needed to put the money where it would do some good. Don't fight the trend.
Oh, also Pairgain. Yum yummie.
I have a list......
I am possibly about to pull all of my money out of the mkt and go home. I had three choices to make Thursday night. I made a choice to sell two and buy 1. I typed the orders in, for 6:30 am. I worried some more and checked more charts and went to bed and switched on the light and reversed the orders to no buy and 2 holds. When the mkt opened, the two holds lost another 600.00 or so, and the non-buy went up 2200.00.
Now what do I do. Switch back? That kind of micromanaging will lose your butt. So, no. And the gap will widen.
No big deal, but it happens all the effing time. Pretty much all. I am being watched. Think I'm kidding? I don't think so. I have the "singular" (singled out) feeling that paranoids get.
When I get that way "seriously", as I am, I know it's time to move on. I've been getting it the whole two and a half years I've been in here. Since passing on INTC at 49. True, that was only an opportunity lost, but these others have been monies lost. Doing my research has NO effect. I literally picked a stock I know nothing about, last week, to see what happens. I mean, yes, I used IGNORANCE as a PLAN.
That would be FUNNY if I weren't dead SERIOUS.
I'm speaking literally, truthfully, not my usual sarcasm or sardonicism (I don't know what sardonic means, which means it should work just fine, in today's market).
You can't use your lessened monies to buy an equal number of shares. Duh, 101.
I am a paranoid and pissed off camper, and I have learned that's usually the sign to redouble efforts or leave the tryouts. Since I've felt this way each five months, seriously enough to quit, and then redoubled, you know persistence makes winners and winners never quit ~ well, since I've tried those, over again and again, and know all about patience and self preservation, it might be time to leave.
I could keep going. But what would be the point? I mean, aren't I getting the message? How fucking stupid am I, exactly? What meter do we need to build?
Reminds me of that poster company, "Disappointments", or whatever it was, we found here. X found it. "Winners never quit; quitters never win; but people who never quit and never win are idiots."
I agree with that. I don't believe this persistence crap, where you've pulled back from quitting six times and you're still trying to invest. 2.5 years, and I have nothing to show. LESS than nothing. And I got in here, because I saw it was something I understand very well, technology; and because I needed a "job" I could do, I needed to make use of my assets, which is something we should always be doing in the earning years of our lives, ~ I needed to do that because my body couldn't do anything else.
Well, I'm starting to get the drift here. It's not a drift, it's an undertow. Just one more 2 1/2 year "toilet training" segment. Do I feel sorry for my self? Not really ~ it's more like recognition and shock. And, I have gratitude; gratitude that I can walk, and be here, in life, and be here on the net with yall, and that I have the nicest wife in America. I have nothing to be sorry about. Except bad luck, and what can I do about that?
Hmmm?
Change it?
"BWaaaaahahahaaaa haha!!!!"
Any way, I hope you get a laugh out of this too, and thanks for letting me analyze. I'm going outside, where I can see our local star.
And get skin cancer. |
