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To: Voltaire who wrote (1996)	2/1/2000 4:58:00 PM
From: DOUG H	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 35685

From Vendits thread; To: Vendit (7305 ) From: Mason Tuesday, Feb 1 2000 4:43PM ET Reply # of 7314 MY RESIGNATION I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an adult. I have decided that I would like to accept the responsibilities of an 8 year-old again. I want to go to McDonald's and think that it's a four-star restaurant. I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud puddle and make a sidewalk with rocks. I want to think M&M's are better than money because you can eat them. I want to lie under a big oak tree and run a lemonade stand with my friends on a hot summer's day. I want to return to a time when life was simple. When all you knew were colors, multiplication tables, and nursery rhymes, but that didn't bother you, because you didn't know what you didn't know and you didn't care. All you knew was to be happy because you were blissfully unaware of all the things that should make you worried or upset. I want to think the world is fair. That everyone is honest and good. I want to believe that anything is possible. I want to be oblivious to the complexities of life and be overly excited by the little things again. I want to live simple again. I don't want my day to consist of computer crashes, mountains of paperwork, depressing news, how to survive more days in the month than there is money in the bank, doctor bills, gossip, illness, and loss of loved ones. I want to believe in the power of smiles, hugs, a kind word, truth, justice, peace, dreams, the imagination, mankind, and making angels in the snow. So . . . here's my checkbook and my car-keys, my credit card bills and my 401K statements. I am officially resigning from adulthood. And if you want to discuss this further, you'll have to catch me first, because ... "Tag! You're it."

To: Voltaire who wrote (1996)	2/1/2000 5:06:00 PM
From: im a survivor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 35685

Tom, I hear ya my friend, and know exactly what you mean. I too, am wishing I had bought more under $110, but I still feel your strategy, which I also use to a degree is very prudent. Yes, we wish we bought more, but at the same time, had it dropped to under $100, we would have wanted to buy even more...so it is best to not burn all your cash right away. Yes, JMAC is a tad on edge <ggg>. I was not refering to him directly..he is just one of many very obviously well eductaed people that this market has turned into muuush. I went to muuuush one time and one time only. I learned from that and have taken advantage of situations like this every time since...and have made out very well buy buying quality issues when panic sets in. I think the Q picture looks great long term and I am a buyer on any decent pullback. My differance with you is you sell some of your position when we are on the hgih end, whereas, I prefer to hold my shares and write cc's...but then again, I don't have near enough shares of this wonderful company, whereas, your small holding<ggg> allows you the luxury of selling a few hundred thousand shares when your plane needs a new motor <ggg> Have a great night Keith