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To: Live2Sail who wrote (159233)	10/23/2008 9:21:31 AM
From: ChanceIs	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

>>>About four weeks ago, my wife had been cajoling me to buy an iMac.<<< About three months ago, my wife reached the first anniversary about bit$%ing about her relatively new PC complete with Vista. Word crashed once every three hours. One day I got so sick of it - not her, but Bill Gates - that I just got in the car, drove over to MicroCenter, whipped out the plastic (that would be a Schwab cash based debit card) and put a brand new iMac in the trunk. Big screen. Second fastest processor. Its a thing of beauty, let me tell you. My wife is also a thing a beauty. The house has been much, much happier ever since. That was also before oil started crashing and Chris Cox banned shorting banks. Had the administration gotten its wish a month early there would have been one less sale for Steve Jobs. so there are several lessons there: 1) Always take some profits out of the market and splurge. Once spent you can't be tempted to try to earn some more off of them. Turn paper profits into real "assets." That iMac is a big time asset in many, many ways, 2) High oil wasn't necessarily bad for the economy, 3) Yes oh great federal government, there are really people out here who save, invest wisely and don't really need or want your help. And.....also have a lot of people out here who have a much better handle on where to plant the seed corn than you ever would.