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Non-Tech : Costco, slow but sure? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Curbstone who wrote (331)	1/11/1998 9:18:00 PM
From: Mat Miller	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1147

Mike, Wow, in no time at all, we'll have lurkers in the double digits!! You're fortunate to have gotten a number so low! <g> (And to be in Maui, while there's snow on the ground here!). Costco, now that its dancing around with Priceco is done (by absorbsion), is one of those stock that you buy during market panic and then hold for a long, long time. Gets rather boring in between, and if it wasn't for the fact that it keeps chugging up the price hill, I'd probably only shop there! Mat BTW, <eom> is end of message. Mostly done to tell you that the post is a one-liner so you don't have to bring up the post to read it. You've already done when you read the post's "title". It doesn't happen much on this board. We, like most boards, go on with multi-line posts, even when we don't have much to say! <g>

To: Curbstone who wrote (331)	1/13/1998 12:16:00 AM
From: WalleyB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1147

Hello Mike, I found myself in a bit of a pickle this morning. There I was ready to leave the office when I tried one last time to get on SI to see what was happening with the market etc; noticed you and Mat had posted to me and thought I would say hello. Apparently I missed keyed and posted an empty screen to you. "Bad Form old boy", I said to myself, "Can't leave it like that", so I went in and attempted to edit but of course I didn't have the text of your post to refer to. So I figured no problem I'll wing it. Just then I notice the BIG Kahoona walking straight for my cubicle, "What's this he never comes up here!! nuts.". Panic begins to constrict the passage ways of electronic signals at the base of my neck. The fight or flee urges are tingling as I write with one eye and keep the other on the MAN. Do I blank out the screen, pull up an Excel spread sheet, or just keep on typing...what would 007 do in a situatiuon like this? The Big Boss stops to chat with the little boss, my boss, I'm thinking about what to write, what to do, he's close...so close....should I finish up or keep typing....maybe he won't see the screen when he walks by....but what if he does!!!! The brain begins to cramp, fingers tense, I opt to bail as he finishes his conversation and starts walking again. My finger is on the button when suddenly another conversation is started and I begin typing again. "Got to wrap this up...got to turn off this machine...go to the field...keep this job...don't risk it...push submit...PUSH SUBMIT....He's coming again...do it now!!". The screen pauses I act cool and focused the the server posts the message and I hit the kill button on the Net browser at the same time I push the key board away. It was a close call, time clicking away on the edit clock, the director down in the trenches, but I made it. And you think it was a wild ride on wall Street this morning. So, Mike...I should have said thanks for letting me know about the FCC thing this morning but as you can see, I can't think straight when I am under pressure <g>. Fortunatley I only posted the info on one other thread, but next time I will investigate first, then post. I should have known...This is how rumors get started!! Maui!, You don't know how that hurts to read it. My wife and I went there for a week, stayed in Kei (now I can't remember how to spell it) had a great time and wanted to don a loin cloth, sleep on the beach and eat fish the rest of my life. Course I figured the hotels in the area might take a dim veiw of that and then there were the kids to consider, ah what might have been. Sorry to hear about your losses. I know how that is, and so do you if you really have been reading all the posts on this thread, (you poor guy...there aren't things on the island you'd rather be doing? <g>) I cried on Mat's E-shoulder a time or two about MLIN sinking under my buy price. Currently it's down again. Mat lives about fiftenn minutes from where I hang my hat but I figured we would bump into each other some day in the line at costco or while ordering a Kosher hot dog/pizza. In the mean while I want to loose about 45 lbs and 'buff up' at the gym, first impressions can be so important you know <RBG>. Don't feel you have to read all those post before posting further, Like MAt said, it's about 5% substance and 95% stuff. But hey, with a stock like Cost, why not just sit back, watch it appreciate and enjoy the view! Well the middle daughter is kicking me off my computer to do her school work, got to go. Hey Mat, chat later when the little tyrant will let me <g>. Regards jim, AKA Mario Wa-hee-lee...cause I drove the rode to Hanna like a mad man with a death wish. And what an excellent drive it was. I can still smell the fragrance of the fruit crushing benieth my vehicles wheels as I leaned into the turns and the surf crashed against the rocks hundred of feet below.