In yet another quest for life long learning I read-up on two topics:
1) after hours trading
2) margin calls
After hours trading sounds like a place I should avoid. At least for now. It requires a gambling mentality - making bets on the movement of a stock's price - while actually playing the game with limited information and against much larger (institutional players). Passing on that for now.
Margin trading is pretty much in-keeping with the Violet Beauregarde school of life - " I want it and I want it now!" With margin trading you borrow many to buy more than you care to spend in the expectation that the stock price will swing in the direction that you predict and then you sell and payback the loan and keep the profit. Again, this is too much risk for my bank account. But of the two topics I learned about today this sounds like something I may explore in the future.
And those are lessons well learned.
Friday, August 2, 2013
No stank
Turned out the sewage smell was related to the heat, excessive water building up under a plastic swimming pool, and good old fashioned organic decomposition. As the weather cleared up and the pool removed from the ground surface the smell was eliminated. Yeah. Lesson learned.
Saturday, July 20, 2013
Something Stinks Around Here
My life stinks.
It may be the too much rain we've gotten and the fact that our little blow-up pool has been sitting on a smoldering patch of damp decaying earth. That could be it. Or, more likely I have sloshed upon a break in a sewer line and the wetness, and the smell are the beginning of a very expensive and very upsetting journey into the earth with a plumber by my side.
It seems that what I attract into my life does not smell like roses. Why is that? Why? Why is that? Actually, I have been blessed lately. I have been working full time for almost a year now. My daughter has graduated with a Masters degree in Speech Pathology and is working at a local school. She is also engaged to be married. October 11, 2014 to be exact. To a man that I pray will be good to her and treat her like the angel she is.
My son has also graduated. He has received a Bachelors degree in Neuroscience. He is planning to return to school to receive his Masters degree. A Masters in what he's not sure. But I'm sure he will find his path and he will be great in it.
My wife is healthy after 10+ years of MS. For that she, and I are grateful. We struggle though with finances. Money does not come easy to us. Seems that when we get some, we incur numerous expenses that dwindle it away. I have recently received some pension buyout funds from my time spent at NCR. We're investing it in an IRA and planning to use it for retirement. That's a good thing. But, with this sewer thing we may need to tap into it for repair money.
See what I mean. Every time we get something good. Something comes along and takes it away. I fear that. Maybe I should not. Maybe it would stop happening if I stopped fearing it so. I just don't know how to stop thinking the way I think.
That stinks.
It may be the too much rain we've gotten and the fact that our little blow-up pool has been sitting on a smoldering patch of damp decaying earth. That could be it. Or, more likely I have sloshed upon a break in a sewer line and the wetness, and the smell are the beginning of a very expensive and very upsetting journey into the earth with a plumber by my side.
It seems that what I attract into my life does not smell like roses. Why is that? Why? Why is that? Actually, I have been blessed lately. I have been working full time for almost a year now. My daughter has graduated with a Masters degree in Speech Pathology and is working at a local school. She is also engaged to be married. October 11, 2014 to be exact. To a man that I pray will be good to her and treat her like the angel she is.
My son has also graduated. He has received a Bachelors degree in Neuroscience. He is planning to return to school to receive his Masters degree. A Masters in what he's not sure. But I'm sure he will find his path and he will be great in it.
My wife is healthy after 10+ years of MS. For that she, and I are grateful. We struggle though with finances. Money does not come easy to us. Seems that when we get some, we incur numerous expenses that dwindle it away. I have recently received some pension buyout funds from my time spent at NCR. We're investing it in an IRA and planning to use it for retirement. That's a good thing. But, with this sewer thing we may need to tap into it for repair money.
See what I mean. Every time we get something good. Something comes along and takes it away. I fear that. Maybe I should not. Maybe it would stop happening if I stopped fearing it so. I just don't know how to stop thinking the way I think.
That stinks.
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