bitsandbobs
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posted on August 7, 2001 02:32:22 AM
Hi pharlap,The hackles were up a bit last night but I've solved the problem. The details are in my earlier post tonight.
Bob, Downunder but never down.
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nettak
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posted on August 7, 2001 02:35:44 AM
Hello Bob, Mouse and Pharlap
yes our favourite man was not a happy fellow last night and with just cause I might add. I am glad that you got it all sorted out Bob, I saw that address last night as well. When you sent me the first email with that link in my post, it came up when I clicked on it the first time, then it disappeared.
It is my baby's 17th birthday today, and as per house rules everyone had to be home for dinner and cake. But my darling sons' scoffed there dinner, and ate the cake as they ran out the door. Girls are far more important than there aging mother. 
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pharlap
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posted on August 7, 2001 02:39:02 AM
17... I suddenly feel very old 
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nettak
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posted on August 7, 2001 02:42:30 AM
Hey if you feel old, how do you think I feel.  Actually it really doesn't make me feel that bad, I am just glad he has survived it this far. LOL 
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MouseSlayer
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posted on August 7, 2001 02:44:17 AM
Hi my Aussie pals! I'm glad you got that all figured out Bob, it would have driven me nuts too! Did you guys read about my bit of news on the last page?
~^~  Hippy wannabe  ~^~
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pharlap
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posted on August 7, 2001 02:55:08 AM
Hey Mouse! Yes I read the article. Sounds as if their stocks are doing something similar to that of the last company I was working for!
Nettak - So, will your boy be going to uni next year? If he comes down here I could keep an eye on him for you - make sure he's behaving himself!
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bitsandbobs
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posted on August 7, 2001 03:00:11 AM
mouse, I distinctly told my funds manager to offer $850,000,000.
It turns out that he didn't have his hearing aid turned on and only offered $8.50.
Just can't trust the hired help these days!
Bob, Downunder but never down.
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MouseSlayer
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posted on August 7, 2001 03:12:48 AM
Oh that doesn't sound good Pharlap. LOL Bob, you're just full of snappy come backs lately.
What sucks is I was putting 25% of my 401k deduction into the stock fund. That's when it was doing well and then it split. Right after the split, it dropped dramatically. Now I'm not sure whether to move everything out of that fund or wait until (or hoping) it goes back up. With everything going on in the company, who knows when that may be. Because of how much I have in there, I don't have to move it until I'm ready. So I can wait indefinitely.
Oh, and Happy Birthday to Netta's son!
~^~ Hippy wannabe ~^~
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nettak
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posted on August 7, 2001 03:16:13 AM
Nettak - So, will your boy be going to uni next year? If he comes down here I could keep an eye on him for you - make sure he's behaving himself! haha This kid could be more than you could handle......he makes the girls swoon for gods sake. It is pathetic.
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MouseSlayer
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posted on August 7, 2001 03:53:48 AM
Ok, where did you all disappear to??
~^~ Hippy wannabe ~^~
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pharlap
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posted on August 7, 2001 03:58:06 AM
Sorry Mouse! We were off having an orgie. Forgot to ask if you wanted to join us!
I'm done!
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MouseSlayer
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posted on August 7, 2001 04:00:53 AM
Well sheesh! I feel left out...
~^~ Hippy wannabe ~^~
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nedtrader
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posted on August 7, 2001 04:20:50 AM
Mouse...
Yeah. I also feel left out.
- Ned
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nedtrader
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posted on August 7, 2001 04:20:51 AM
Mouse...
Yeah. I also feel left out.
- Ned
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gravid
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posted on August 7, 2001 04:45:28 AM
Mouseslayer - If the share price dropped that's OK - It split so if it dropped 50% on a 2 for 1 split you didn't lose anything.
The price tends to come back up and it keeps the price of 100 share blocks down where the little guy can trade them. If the total value dropped it probably does not have anything to do with the split - except I have seen some companies split as a bone thrown to the shareholders when they had nothing else they could do for them. I always thought that was stupid. I have never traded anything except some Chase Manhatten over 50 because it ties too much of my money up in one stock.
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bitsandbobs
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posted on August 7, 2001 04:50:24 AM
For the ladies who missed the orgy.
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/9820/jake.html
Bob, Downunder but never down.
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MouseSlayer
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posted on August 7, 2001 05:23:46 AM
Gravid, right before the split it dropped about $30 a share. Then with the split it dropped by half, I knew that was ok. Then it gained about $5-10 a share after the split. Now it's almost half what it was right after the split. Now do you see my dilemma?
~^~ Hippy wannabe ~^~
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nettak
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posted on August 7, 2001 05:42:29 AM
WOW thank you Bob  , you make my heart all aflutter.
I like Gigolo Jake......but he looks nothing like my Jake. Our jake is a kelpie, cattledog X He is still cute though.
Well I am feeling exhausted after all that activity, so I guess I will call it a night. See you all tomorrow. Goodnight.
[ edited by nettak on Aug 7, 2001 05:43 AM ]
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nettak
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posted on August 8, 2001 04:59:37 AM
Alright I have been slaving over my tax crap, and I come in here to take a break for a little while and no one is here. Well I like that.....not!!!
So where is everyone tonight? Geeeeez if no one is around to talk to me, that means I have to go and do some more work.
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bitsandbobs
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posted on August 8, 2001 05:43:36 AM
OK Nettak, put the paperwork away.
I've just come back from an auction and nipped in to see who's here.
It's quiet tonight!
Bob, Downunder but never down.
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nettak
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posted on August 8, 2001 05:48:55 AM
So Bob are you still around, did you get anything good at the auction?
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bitsandbobs
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posted on August 8, 2001 05:53:58 AM
The auction was one of the worst I've been to in a long while.
It was a glorified scratch and dent sale. Not to mention chipped, broken, woodworm infested, fake and every other sin in the book!
As always though, the greenhorns sill put their hand up.
I bought a couple of things, but nothing real exciting.
Bob, Downunder but never down.
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bitsandbobs
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posted on August 8, 2001 05:59:47 AM
nettak, I don't know if it was mentioned on the news up your way today, but if we don't get bucket loads of rain down here in the next couple of weeks, we are on water rationing starting 1st September.
Our dams and water storages are so far down at the moment. We haven't had any decent rain for five years.
Might have to go back to thunder boxes instead of flush loos!
Bob, Downunder but never down.
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nettak
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posted on August 8, 2001 06:00:11 AM
Sorry about that Bob, I hate going to an auction only to have it be a crappy one and then have to leave with nothing or next to nothing.
I went on a hunt through some second hand shops yesterday and came up with a few little goodies, and tomorrow I have to go into an area that has a lot of thrift shops, so guess what I will be doing. Let's hope it is worth my while.
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bitsandbobs
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posted on August 8, 2001 06:03:50 AM
nettak, I'll be heading off early tommorow and will spend the day up the bush. There is next to nothing around town at the moment worth buying.
Hopefully I might find a few decent things a bit further afield.
Bob, Downunder but never down.
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nettak
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posted on August 8, 2001 06:05:22 AM
Oh yukky poo I certainly hope you get some rain soon. It has been really dry up here as well, oh I know we have had a bit of rain , but certainly not enough to keep us going unless we get some more decent rain very soon. It has been the strangest winter we have seen in a very long time and I think we could be in for a long hot summer.
I saw on the news tonight that they are saying we could be in for some really freaky weather. A bit like the 74 floods only worse, great news for me, as we live right on the river. They said we could even get more cyclones like we used to get a few years ago, we have not seen anything like that for a long time. But it looks like the weather pattern is changing again.
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nettak
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posted on August 8, 2001 06:09:31 AM
Bob when you go bush, how far out do you go. I have a sister that used to live just outside Echuca, and we have some old friends that live in Shepparton (sp?), do you ever go near those places. I can remember years ago all the wonderful places in those towns, but I suppose they have changed over the years. We used to go to clearing sales in those little towns a long time ago as well. That was when we were younger and before kids'.
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bitsandbobs
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posted on August 8, 2001 06:11:44 AM
This tax business is a PITA. I got so tired of it that I deregistered my businesses last May and June. That was one of the reasons I was so busy.
As of this financial year I am a private individual again and officially retired. What I do now is my hobby and not an official business.
I got sick to death of working for the government.
Bob, Downunder but never down.
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bitsandbobs
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posted on August 8, 2001 06:15:03 AM
I don't get around those parts as often as I'd like.
Shepparton is a great town. (Got a really good golf course too which I have reciprocal playing status at).
Tommorow I'll be heading off east, down through Gippsland etc.
Bob, Downunder but never down.
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nettak
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posted on August 8, 2001 06:21:06 AM
I have to tell you that after this last year and all the crap we have had to deal with, we have often talked about getting out. But we are too young to retire and don't have enough money to survive unless we do something, and it is too hard going back to work for someone else at this stage so we just keep going with what we know. For now at least. We are sick to death with working to pay the tax man as well, I don't mind paying what we have to but I do get fed up with paying for all the hangers on as well. My own kids' do not get hand outs from the government, so why the hell should I be paying for all the dropkicks out there, when from my point of view a lot of them are doing better than we are and they don't have to work for there money.
I loved it when Greg and I stayed down south, we were 2 minutes from the Murray River and I even learnt how to drive a tractor down there. LOL Those certainly were the days. Those cows used to run when they saw me on that tractor.....mind you everyone else used to run as well. haha
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