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Fortunately my girlfriend didn't cause such a scene. She did spend an early "date" at my office watching me play Myst all afternoon and evening. I didn't have a computer at home at the time. Perhaps she saw something in the way I gathered those blue and red pages... we've been married for 5 years now.
What do you have your 401K invested in? Mines returning %7 right now.
An assortment of things. A bond fund, value fund and growth fund, though to be fair it's only recently been rebalanced. I ignored the whole financial risk pyramid thing until recently. This bear market has finally forced a reassesment of my plans.
Get quicken. Keep your records updated. Buy books and learn financial stuff. ITs not that hard.
A satisfied Quicken user since version 3.
... now that I think about it, my net worth may be closer to $100k than I previously thought. How much do reasonably healthy children fetch on the black market? Sorry kids Daddy has to keep up with the Jones'.
"Age 32 and piercing-free, Karen Doss . . . has just $5,000 in a 401(k) and $20,000 in home equity. Ideally, someone her age should have at least $100,000 stashed away."Fuck me, $100,000 by age 32? I'm about $100,000 behind, then.
Sounds about right here too. I keep throwing money at my 401k and it just evaporates. How many 3x year olds are sitting on $100k? I'm 33 and my net worth might be half that. But liquid $100k? Fuhgetaboutit.
Real non-funny story from high school chemistry (okay, so maybe it's funny now):
I had detention in chemistry class and was asked to clean up. Part of the clean up was some spilled mercury a portion of which I appropriated for later "study" at home.
During this "study" I discovered that the mercury would stick to my gold crucifix that I wore on a gold chain. Intrigued I removed the chain and drug the crucifix through the tiny puddle of mercury.... and then I tried to remove the blobs of mercury from the crucifx and chain when I discovered the mercury would only smear and not detach. What was worse the gold seemed to be absorbing the mercury! Frantic I intended to boil the chain and crucifix when it began to crumble...
...and that is how I (and my parents) learned the word amalgam.
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If I want to see any of the discussion about this story it seems.
I'm not a scientist either, but I did take an intro to forensics course once.
...too much TV.
I just knew you were going to say: I'm not a scientist either, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express...
Kramnik,V (2807) - Deep Fritz [A00] Brains in Bahrain Man-Machine Match Manama, Bahrain (6), 15.10.2002 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.g3 Ba6 5.b3 Bb4+ 6.Bd2 Be7 7.Bg2 c6 8.Bc3 d5 9.Ne5 Nfd7 10.Nxd7 Nxd7 11.Nd2 0-0 12.0-0 Rc8 13.a4 Bf6 14.e4 c5 15.exd5 cxd4 16.Bb4 Re8 17.Ne4 exd5 18.Nd6 dxc4 19.Nxf7!? Kxf7 20.Bd5+ Kg6 21.Qg4+ Bg5 22.Be4+ Rxe4 23.Qxe4+ Kh6 24.h4 Bf6 25.Bd2+ g5 26.hxg5+ Bxg5 27.Qh4+ [27.Qe6+ Nf6 28.f4 Bh4!!] 27...Kg6 28.Qe4+ Kg7 29.Bxg5 Qxg5 30.Rfe1 cxb3 31.Qxd4+ Nf6 32.a5 Qd5 33.Qxd5 Nxd5 34.axb6 axb6 0-1 [35.Rxa6? b2]
Fortunately my girlfriend didn't cause such a scene. She did spend an early "date" at my office watching me play Myst all afternoon and evening. I didn't have a computer at home at the time. Perhaps she saw something in the way I gathered those blue and red pages... we've been married for 5 years now.
Kramnik,V (2807) - Deep Fritz [D34]
Brains in Bahrain Man-Machine Match. Manama (4), 10.10.2002
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 c5 4.cxd5 exd5 5.g3 Nc6 6.Bg2 Nf6 7.0-0 Be7 8.Nc3 0-0 9.Bg5 cxd4 10.Nxd4 h6 11.Bf4 Bg4 12.h3 Be6 13.Rc1 Re8 14.Nxe6 fxe6 15.e4 d4 16.e5 dxc3 17.exf6 Bxf6 18.bxc3 Qxd1 19.Rfxd1 Rad8 20.Be3 Rxd1+ 21.Rxd1 Bxc3 22.Rd7 Rb8 23.Bxc6 bxc6 24.Rxa7 Rb2 25.Ra6 Bd2 26.Rxc6 Bxe3 27.fxe3 Kf7 28.a4 Ra2 29.Rc4 Kf6 30.Kf1 g5 31.h4 h5 32.hxg5+ Kxg5 33.Ke1 e5 34.Kf1 Kf5 35.Rh4 Kg5 36.Re4 Kf5 37.Rh4 Kg5 38.Kg1 Kg6 39.g4 hxg4 40.Rxg4+ Kf5 41.Rc4 ½-½
What do you have your 401K invested in? Mines returning %7 right now.
An assortment of things. A bond fund, value fund and growth fund, though to be fair it's only recently been rebalanced. I ignored the whole financial risk pyramid thing until recently. This bear market has finally forced a reassesment of my plans.
Get quicken. Keep your records updated. Buy books and learn financial stuff. ITs not that hard.
A satisfied Quicken user since version 3.
... now that I think about it, my net worth may be closer to $100k than I previously thought. How much do reasonably healthy children fetch on the black market? Sorry kids Daddy has to keep up with the Jones'.
"Age 32 and piercing-free, Karen Doss . . . has just $5,000 in a 401(k) and $20,000 in home equity. Ideally, someone her age should have at least $100,000 stashed away."Fuck me, $100,000 by age 32? I'm about $100,000 behind, then.
Sounds about right here too. I keep throwing money at my 401k and it just evaporates. How many 3x year olds are sitting on $100k? I'm 33 and my net worth might be half that. But liquid $100k? Fuhgetaboutit.
Real non-funny story from high school chemistry (okay, so maybe it's funny now):
...and that is how I (and my parents) learned the word amalgam.
I had detention in chemistry class and was asked to clean up. Part of the clean up was some spilled mercury a portion of which I appropriated for later "study" at home.
During this "study" I discovered that the mercury would stick to my gold crucifix that I wore on a gold chain. Intrigued I removed the chain and drug the crucifix through the tiny puddle of mercury.... and then I tried to remove the blobs of mercury from the crucifx and chain when I discovered the mercury would only smear and not detach. What was worse the gold seemed to be absorbing the mercury! Frantic I intended to boil the chain and crucifix when it began to crumble...