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

To: WalleyB who wrote (384)	2/7/1998 8:22:00 PM
From: Mat Miller	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1147

Hi, Jim. A rather powerful knock that went right thru the 46 door and while not a new high on Friday, it looks like it can at least keep up with the Dow. (i.e., if the Dow tacks on another 70+ points to a new high, Costco should be able to get a 1/2 point + of its own!) Boy, what a pain to get back on the net. Either I've been too tire or busy, and if not that then our service providers have sucked. Prodigy had started acted up with not being able to connect and then dropping not long after if we did connect. So we tried MCI for a 30 day trial period. It connected 'okay' but it was difficult to tell, since it took forever to get to any site and therefore even longer to get to the final destination, which usually I would give up before reaching. Now we trying Earthlink. My wife has heard good things about it. And since you're reading this, you know that it can at least get to SI and do postings! Yes, I did hear about Keebler going public, but I don't think I'll be buying it. I don't buy IPOs, since they have little known history. An exception that I wish I had made would have been Microsoft (duh!) and Starbucks. Maybe if Keebler was located around here .... Re the IRS. Usually I what I gain in stock sales tends to match the overpayments that come from my salary's tax deductions. Or another way of looking at it, is my income tax Sch. A deductions tend to match my Sch. D income. However, a couple of years that I was lucky?!? enough to owe more taxes due to stock gains, I did have to do estimated quarterly payments. I realized that the gains were large enough to owe more taxes, so I got a hold of the quarterly est. tax schedule, and calculated how much more tax payments would be needed over the coming quarters. So if I sold the stock in the fall, I calculated the tax and paid half in Sept. and the other half in Dec. That seems to have made the IRS happy enough to not bother me. And I don't have to know how much I'm going to sell until I do so! Well, we're a dollar and a half up on the analyst's prediction of going from 45 to 50. Hopefully, we can do a little better than that. But mid-50s by the end of the year would satisfy me. A lot, of course, depends on how the US economy does for the rest of the year. Yes. But if Earthlink keeps working, (and the creek don't rise, which is unlikely since there are no nearby creeks ), then I should be able to make a little more noise than I have been. Later. Mat (Still having problems to get a post to submit the first time tho'. Do you have this problem?)