Matter of fact harr449, I've got mostly jackshite in the market now and never was too big a player but instead got real lucky on three-in-a-row pressed-up 8-10 baggers on ADZR, ALMI, and AMDS in 2003 or '04. Let us remodel a place on the lake, build a boatdock and stuff it with toys. Of course besides stupid ADZR, I put more back into AMDS and lost $10K when the CEO got arrested by his girlfriend's ex-husband who planted coke in his car. The Memphis police fired the guy and his partner, and the ex-CEO has got a pretty good lawsuit moving through the courts in Memphis. Of course me and all the small-fry lost everything when all this was going on and the stock was absolutely cratering--Now that might be the best investment story ever. And of course ALMI, which I didn't put any more money in more than doubled from where i sold it on what would have been a 20+ bagger for some real f.u. money
Just recently, I got burned holding too long on a speculative biotech at the end of March and pissed away a 5-bagger with a big stake and wound up break even when I sold. Traveling so much not able to pay attention and missed the signals to get out of that p.o.s. So I sold everything but one more speculative biotech (a glutton, I guess)
Wife and I retired early in 2006, sold our houses, cars, toys and now move around different places in the world in 2 suitcases and two laptops. Very liberating to not watch the stupid market all the time. Just finishing up two months in Istanbul and heading to London next week for 5 months and then Playa del Carmen in Mexico for 6 months after that. Like I said we don't have a home so we just go where our visas let us.
Hope all is well with you and I would like to visit with Charles some day, but i'm sure that won't happen.
robj
