Quote from jem:
lifetime trusts and millionaires. That has to be the most delusional or fraudulent post ever.
And those are the ones that bug me. A lifetime trust for a handicapped person.
You see what a pychotic salesman jack is. He could be president with that sort bullshit. He is selling the dream. Change.....
Jack - why don't you produce the truly inspiration trader who owes you so much.
The EOP's incoming line is 202-456-1414. I used the North Gate at 1600 PA Ave. The speed limit at Camp David is 35 on the main campus and near the entry gates and in and around the press trailers.
No one owes me anything. I am happy that over the years a lot of people have passed forward what they learned and used their resourses to help others.
The parents of this person had three children. The oldest was mentally and physically challenged. The dad worked at IBM and I met him when he was running the fund raising for a new "Y" in Poughkeepsie. He also ran the two weekend maintenance camp outs for the "Y" camp of the area. W W Smith donated the camp and the indian name reflects that Wa Wa Segoia. All the buildings are made of chestnut which became diseased in the area of the 600 acre camp.
Al and I played double deck Hearts in the evening at first but trading became a side topic. I was single and had diner at their place and went to the Baptist church they attended.
Our class reunions at RPI were '35 and '55 so we occasionally went together after I was married and settled down. We both recruited for IBM at the time.
He bought 50 acres north of Hyde Park and across the NY Central tracks right on the Hudson river. As time passed it became necesary for the family to send their daughter to Camp Hill, PA where she was going to live for the future. His other daughter married Tom of Thomas and Betts and they lived in Central Bucks County where I took up residence after returning from Switzerland.
I had a MB (170S) that was one of 22 in the US and I traded it when I got rid of my 300SL. Al's son was to become a freshman at RPI so Al bought the 170S cabroliet convertable which was yellow with black fenders and running boards as a gift for his son. I had first refusal on it since the car was appreciating in value as was the 300SL before it. We both thought it would be a nice car for his son to have while at college.
I used the 170S and I had a 190SL as well for going over to a small Greenwich park east of Greenwich proper to go sailing on my King's Criuser (US 122) (named the Consort originally by the trasurer of Yatching magazine) out of Gothenburg, Sweden which I kept on a mooring there and I had a slip for my dinghy too. At that time I raced in three types of races: the A and B boats (with Tom Chubb out of Indian Harbor) and on Shields class with Parmer Sparkman (Larchmount Yatch Cloub) and his brother) and on L 16's and B classboats (Bounty II) with Bennett Fisher out of the NYY club. Bell 32A off Greenwich and across from Oyster Bay was a frequent starting or finishing point.
You orient to me as if I am delusional to you. My life and its experiences are probably very different than yours.
I had a lot of fun and a lot of toys and Al and I did alot of things together and for each other. The first IBM charter jet flight to Europe (the second one ever) Al didn't take but we did. He drove us to the IBM country Club in his caddie and wore a chauffeur's outfit. He was general manager of the Data Systems Division and IBM was very stuffy about its heirarchy and pecking order. He built the country club and the staff knew him and it was a really super experience for all of us. He wouldn't let us carry our bags.
You see me as a fraud. That is the way it is. What is going on around the world with SCT and PVT on 25 exchanges now is not within the realm of what is real to you. Maybe millionaires aren't real to you either. I feel that being a milioinaire is just a pragmatic manifestation of taking capital out of markets and it can be done by mostly anyone who decides to.
That decision is an interesting one. People read my posts. Apparently you are one of them and you have built a set of rating scales you use to qualify, in your responses, how my posts and maybe others, score. I am setting records on your scales.
It look like there is a possibility that you will not start practicing PVT, SCT and SR soon. It may take longer for you to decide to start becoming a millionaire. I just went through and effort to be helpful, deeply helpful to a group in a boot camp setting. I only got as far ask trying to get a peson to put horizontal lines on a log (I failed) and I could not get the person to understand the value of color in learning (I failed). I did work at it for half of the time until my next cancer surgery, however. I have a period coming up when I will be on pain killers and I am going to be feeling really good. But I can't think too well for a period of time.
Well at this point I have lost track of the adult handicapped people who have life time trusts, but I do remember three in one day was my record and they were all Irish. I used to spend St Pats day with the families. I know one of these families bought a home for cash and saved several hundred thousand doing the deal. Their little girl has a corral for a desert turtle and she goes to get lettuce when her mother takes her shopping. The tortise lives under a desert cactus in a hole he dug. His nose turns green when he eats lettuce. The home has a recording studio and one of the largest big band record collections in the world (including the extended play WWII army signal corps recording of the big bands that broadcsast from England during the war. I used to get casset tapes of songs that the father would record for me when he got a break from doing rerecordings or ran across something he thought I would like.
Your world is so different and it sounds like a harsh and unyielding place. It is all built the way everyone builds their worlds. Decision by decision. We built a record here of passing forward learning. A way to have either a mechanical system or an ATS built on certainty on any level of effectiveness or efficiency a person decides he wants or needs.
What a person has when it comes to an end is his collection of decisions and their consequences. I'm cooking the entre for a dinner this evening where 15 people will meet to deal for three hours on reading labels to understand how to prolong their recover from cardiac difficulties. I will learn right along with each one of them. One of the leaders uses me as an example because he knows I can take criticism and learn from it (he knows he won't upset me as may be possible with others). The 3 hours each week we spent together are the highlight of the week for many of the people.
In my life I get to have each moment that passes be the highlight of my life. My remberances here in this post have been especially heartfelt for me and I plug away at being helpful to others opportunity after opportunity.
I certainly can't "make" you rich and helpful to others but at least I can lend some reality to other readers who may be able to perceive that I do help out and I do nudge people to think with their minds and, perhaps, some will dig a little deeper and make use of their potential to go just one more step in a good direction.
Thank you for your post. I appreciate it for the time you have given me to reflect and consider others that I have known in my life. I got a speeding ticket at Camp David once. and a Mormon PhD (biology) who played "catch a mythical animal in a bag" was caught at night on the grounds and military MP's really chewed me out for breaking the rules. the President thought it was funny.