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Biotech / Medical : ARIAD Pharmaceuticals -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Don England who wrote (1063)	3/3/2000 10:51:00 AM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4474

Yeah, the buck in earnings is so lame-- I'd put that in my email, although it was really more of a mean dig (they sold it for a song before genomics was the buzz word). Manic--a bit perhaps, although you would not know it if you met me in person. I throw it all into these messages--easy to be overstimulated by the action in the stock market these past few weeks, I've made more in three weeks than from five years of salary. And great fun watching the S&P futures light up this morning, Vegas has nothing on Wall Street. You know, the CNBC show would be even more entertaining if they served cocktails to the personalities, and then it would be just like Vegas. And lots of smoke too--and the oldersters at home with their mice instead of the slot arms. There is a purpose to all of this however-- we all intend to do something with the money. I am here merely to get the output from my Quattro spreadsheet up to the point where I can replace my job with interest income. After that, maybe back to school, or maybe start my own weather foreasting e-company, who knows? I even play with the idea of a little farm and Yurt--and a minimal consumption lifestyle, the simplicity thing...but that might be a hard life with the baby. I am essentially where I need to be now--but not quite ready to take money off the table, instead I'm diversifying out of biotech slowly. Maybe by May I'll go half cash again. If my tendency to sell too early persists, I'll be half cash before the Dow recovers to 12k for a good margin of safety.