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To: SJS who wrote (14411)	10/24/2003 2:17:49 PM
From: bw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14427

Hi all..Still hanging around here too, but my ill-timed investments have taken the thrill out of trading my way out of this mess. I have been periodically selling loser mutual funds [Janus, etc.] and taking some gains on bonds...but am still under water for muchos $$$. The "follow the momentum" strategy really worked; I followed the market down big time with large cap growth funds & added insult to injury by paying these crooked fund mgrs. their 1% to lose my money. My past trading experience should have taught to cut losses before they imploded...but NOoooo! Then mom died after a terrible extended illness about the time idiot bush jr. was launching his war. Now I'm taking a hiatus from the real estate biz, and contemplating doing something worthwhile after compromising my karma by being a salesman for the last 25 years... Oh yeah...lots of good stuff happening too, and glad to be alive and able to share a bit of the misery with my cohorts from the bubble days. <g> good luck to all... ps.. the traffic problems have much abated in Silicon Valley. [who would have thought that unemployment was the answer?]