Good morning,Freddy,
We have turned over our affairs to a financial service this week, and I am keeping only about ten stocks to play with. I just wasn't writing at all anymore, so it is with great relief that I do this. While on the OUter Banks, I walked miles on the beach getting pneumonia and thinking about all that was happening in the world, and realized that (for me) investing was a completely nonrewarding activity in terms of the emotional, the creative, and lately, even the financial, and made the decision.
They did a screen on what I own, and told me to sell everything except T and HR.
INCY, AFFX, all the bios showed up as sells, but I figure their screens weren't geared for biotechs, which are crappy looking charts and earnings anyway. And I gave them a lecture on why HELE was a hold, although I may sell her now for the profits. Anyway, they see the coming year as a huge opportunity, so you are in good company. At least I hope it's good company.
We are off to your hometown for Parents' Weekend tomorrow early. I have been staying quiet per doctor's orders for this week so that I could go. I';m so excited about seeing Ammo that I couldn't sleep last night. He adores LA and CA. He casually mentioned seeing a famous person at a party, but the famous person was falling down drunk and Ammo wasn't impressed. He also said the FP was very short- I think he thought all stars were 12 feet tall. We get little out of him regarding classes; we're not sure he's really going to college, although I guess there's not much to say about Kung Fu, his favorite class, or lip syncing, which seems to be all they've done in Acting. (He's done Elvis and Weird Al, and says he was brilliant- but is there a career in this?)
You'll like this one--last week he asked what arguments I could give him against legalizing same sex marriage. He was assigned the con side of a debate in his Soc. class which is called something like "The Changing American Family".
Doesn't that sound Californian?
He isn't opposed to this (he was raised by weirdly liberal conservative me, remember) so didn't know what to argue, not being religious. There was a ton of religious stuff online, of course, and he ended up deciding to do a Jerry Falwell impersonation, pounding the lectern and telling his opponents God would get them. He was hoping the prof will take style over substance. I don't know the outcome, except that he said he was brilliant, which seems to be his stock answer.
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