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To: CrashDavis who wrote (56365)	1/13/2014 12:28:09 AM
From: Lazarus	Respond to of 218514

lol... me too! I just found a couple of hundred bucks in an envelope on my desk and was pleased as peach. Wife and I went to San Francisco for a couple of days. [I love that city!]. We stay at place near the Fisherman's Wharf so we dont have to drive the car.... just a bus or trolly here and there. That $200.00 covered most of our expenses while there including about $70.00 for parking and $53.00 for the one meal we ate out. The place we stay has a little kitchenette so we bring most of our food, cook breakfast and dinner, pack lunches, etc and eat healthy. I would love to live in SF. We are planning to send our oldest son and his expecting wife there for a babymoon soon. As for the money, I was thinking about that post on our drive to SF and realized I actually had a cash profit day that was much higher than that --- nearly double --- which was my best single cash in day and that one wasnt pure luck.... it was one I held onto for big gains. That day I was cashing in on a hunderdbagger. The above trades would make a lot of people rich. They certainly helped me, I wont deny that... but when you have 6 kids, dentists, braces, help with cars, insurance, college tuition [UCLA for one], etc -----> its pretty easy to see it as money in / money out. I had a friend who had a good job with IBM and told me he was offered $300k pr year and 3 million in stock options to go to work for another company - but he declined. In the course of the conversation he confided in me that after paying tuition for his two kids who I think BOTH went to Harvard, he didnt have much left over. I know the feeling. Good thing he kept his job at IBM. He got cancer and they paid him full salary for year and if he lived past a year he was going to get half his salary until he died. Unfortunately he didnt quite make it a year.