Todd, don't forget they have to pay the almighty insurance companies for mal-practice also. For a neurosurgeon, I bet it's out of sight. Where is tort reform when you need it???

Pio, evidently we don't, we have had it in it's uninstalled state since 1988. The original pack rat.

That reminds me of the explanation of why women have so many car accidents.

Okay that's it. I'm done. I'll post again when we get back to two stars.

I told you already you can't control the stars
LOL

I didn't do it. The stars, I mean

Nams, HOW COULD YOU???? It is the ENGLISH who wear socks and sandals.

OMG, I AM SO OFFENDED that you could even think someone wearing socks and sandals could be from NZ.

Actually, I'm only half joking with all the capitals. I sort of mean it.

My DD and her b/f look like attractive young people from Anywhere.

Darn, $6,000 worth of scrapbooking stuff sounded really good. I hope your toe hurts.

BTW, I've heard that joke.

Pio, I remember when ex moved out. He brought virtually nothing with him so it was as if he would return at any moment. It didn't take long to feel the relief of not having to work SO HARD to please ex, to make this house my home. The boys felt the relief too. I'm much more relaxed than ex. Let's see how does olsest son phrase that..."Dad's anal about lots of stuff." "He always lectures me."

Anyway, you've made your way with your girls very successfully & you are headed into unknown territory. Do you hope for G to have gotten herself together concerning her A & how to rebuild a marriage or do you bolster yourself for the same old, same old. The return of the roller coaster may be just around the corner. It's understandable you would be apprehensive.

Y'all are nuts.

WOW we are closing in on the feminine products aisle. Yikes

nams,

since I became addicted to the web, I don't read that many books any more. Plus the tumor has affected my vision and I find it weary and tiresome to read pape after page.

Yes, I like John Irving. I have, or used to have, a first edition hardack of "The World According to Garp". Some of my favorite comtemporary writers include E.L. Doctorow, Anton Meyer ("The Last Convertible"; great book BTW), Joseph Heller, Phillip Roth, John D. McDonald and Kurt Vonegut. But my favorite recent writer is Mario Puzo. While he is best known for "The Godfather", all his books are wonderfully written and he had two books which were not that popular but received critical acclaim: "The Dark Arena" and "The Fortunate Pilgrim". I love storytellers and he was the best. I am also partial to science fiction, as opposed to science fantasy, and my favorites are Arthur C. Clarke, Issac Asmimov, Robert Heinlein and Ursula Leguinn.

As for the classics, I enjoy Dickens, Dostoevski, Steinbeck, Fitzgerald, Thackeray and Faulkner in small doses. I also like Carson McCullers but not everyone in this thread does. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

During the last few years, every book I have read has had to do with securities trading. I trade, or use to trade stocks and options. I stopped when my mental process broke down. It is a very analytical process and I could not keep up. So rather than risk my life's savings, I got away from it. When I have my cognizance back, assuming it comes back, I will resume trading. I thouroughly enjoy it and make good money doing it. Most people have no concept of the money being made in stocks, options and futures.

I will pay everyone good money to quit talking about Pio's moustache.

Todd, so you're walking a daily tightrope?

I'll tell you what strikes me. Your ability to make jokes. I've known people with a pimple who can't get over themselves & joke about it.

The fact you can appreciate what you have & look forward & be involved with your health care...remarkable really. That & you still manage to claim SF if your biggest EN. Yikes!

Todd, can I send you a sum of money to play with??? In your current state, I am sure you could do better than most who claim to do well in the market. I don't have the stomach for it. But I do like collecting profits.

Let me rephrase that. I don't have the intellect for it either. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

This is very common summer attire in Boston's Southy district. It is locally called getting an "Irish tan". I was held prisoner of war for two years in Boston in the People's Republic of Massachusetts BTW.

Well SF is my biggest need. Cannot help it. And there's nothing to be done. I think I need to get checked or something. My SF need has not diminished since I was a teenager.

And btw, I don't recollect making any jokes...

Pay me pay...

or I talk about the M... word.

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Todd look at your new pic on my sign line.

Check is in the mail.


larousse,

If I am going to be a feline, can't I at least be a Lion? Or tiger? I guess I really should be a mink.....

Todd, even before you were put on the hormone supplements, was SF your highest need?? Seems like that might have gone down the drain with hormonal imbalances. It never changed even before the tumor was discovered?

I'm one of those people who have no idea of the money being made in trading. I'm very intuitive. Analytical only in how I view people & their behavior. I see numbers & I glaze over...a bad reaction really.

Quite the list of authors you like! E.L. Doctorow does not have a place in my heart. Kurt Vonegut either. Perhaps I should try again. I like Anne Tyler. I like books about people & how they manage to get along & deal with the daily stuff, the things that come along & hit us hard when we least expect it. I'm almost done with this John Irving. Next I'll get The Last Convertable. What's it about?

I remember a couple of Mario Puzo books that I liked but the titles escape me, could be the ones you mentioned.

Do you ever listen to books on tape? The only time I have is on loooong cross coutry trips in the car. Since reading pages doesn't work for you maybe books on tape?

I couldn't touch anyone's money right now. I won't even trade my own. Just to give you an idea of the potential, I have a friend in Switzerland who is likely the best trader I know. In 2002, he made almost 1,000% just trading SMH which is a semiconductor ETF. Now that is unusual but he uses hourly charts and makes a lot of trades. When trading hourlys, you have to trade a lot of money because the commisions would otherwise eat you alive. I forgot how many trades he made that year but it was hundreds.

I am more of the kind of trader who trades 8 -14 times a year or so. The returns you make are commensurate to the risk you are willing to take. My goal is 40% annually and I usually hit that mark.