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To: Kevin Walsh who wrote (28439)	11/14/1997 11:55:00 AM
From: Nemer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58727

Cycle Cat: Just stopped by the desk to grab the abstract that I forgot........senility is settling in........ and checked the thread. ------->I have a muscle imbalance around my knees, from all the years and miles of bicycling, that's causing the platella to pull to the outside. This is causing a soft tissue irritation. Exercises are helping to get stronger but the knee's been temperamental. Bicycling has been a big part of my lifestyle for so long, that if I don't ride, I get edgy and easy to aggitate, or in other words, a big pain in the ars. While out in my journey around town this morning and musing about your knee problem (mine has been "telling" me for three days this cold front and rain was coming) I recalled a visit I had with a friend weeks ago in my front yard. ....This is what's known as a soft lead into an unplesant ending.... Well, anyway, Ray Armstrong (my friend) is the granddad of cycling great, world class, world winner on the BIG tour, Lance Armstrong. Lance has as you probably know has developed testicular cancer, mayhaps brought on or aggraviated by his bike riding. He is doing fine and is attempting a major league come back. My prayers are with him and his family. My opinion is that ANYTHING done to excess extracts a future price to be paid. Probably should just keep my mouth shut but being elderly endows me with poetic lecture license.........heh heh Back to the real world...... Regards---- the atrophied brain Nemer

To: Kevin Walsh who wrote (28439)	11/14/1997 12:17:00 PM
From: Kevin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58727

Hopefully that knee gets better with rehab. >>>How's mf on our old favorites? any imbalances?<<< IBM & CPQ look great, but I'm trying to keep my mouth shut about any equity positions until the foreign situations are not controlling our market. I'm used to our market leading the direction of others, but when this isn't the case it seems my reads go downhill. Example....I came SUPER close to picking up a ton of calls on TXN when it was about 101 3/8. While I was looking at various strikes, the stock broke below its 200 DMA (@ 101) and wnet into a freefall. Surprised the hell out of me. This is a stock I was buying calls on exaclty a month ago in anticaption that it would fly off of its earnings and stock split info. My most recent positions have been shorting puts on stocks....trying to look for a base at these low prices. Talk to you later.