Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/10/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I read this last night, and this morning was in the local Apple store
listening to a mother and daughter from Australia talk about the exchange
rate and how they were finally giving in to their husband/father's demand
that they quit screwing around & buy that computer NOW! Daughter is a
songwriter making the Nashville pilgrimage.
As it happens I took everything out of the stock market last november. The
apocalyptic dread I'd been feeling (there's a good reason why I named last
year's book what I did) got to be too much. In an accounting of my
retirement fund I received today I find I've actually grown some since the
first of the year. I bailed early because I took a 20% hit in the tech
plunge during the 1st year of the Bush administration; another one of those
and I'll never retire. My personal savings went into CD's and money markets
at the same time. Of course if everything tanks this will be meaningless.
I'm also in the situation of having to look for a job, and signed up with a
bunch of headhunters out of Boston - asked about my preferences for
employment outside the US I put Aus/NZ at the top of the list. Now, if only.
I'd love to see Downunder and live in a decent house.