Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/10/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well come on down for a visit, Arche, still the same country. No rioting in the streets or stockbrokers jumping out of windows...yet ;-) Only a lot of fear driven panic and currency manipulation for profit. My wife just happens to be flying to Denver in a week and we are organising a family visit to west coast in December. Hence some current frustration with a freefall dollar! Cheers Geoff Aber Masse kann Klasse nicht ersetzen....Aber die R10 kommt. http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/e http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/ -----Original Message----- Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: AusLUG goes broke I read this last night, and this morning was in the local Apple store listening to a mother and daughter from Australia talk about the exchange rate and how they were finally giving in to their husband/father's demand that they quit screwing around & buy that computer NOW! Daughter is a songwriter making the Nashville pilgrimage. As it happens I took everything out of the stock market last november. The apocalyptic dread I'd been feeling (there's a good reason why I named last year's book what I did) got to be too much. In an accounting of my retirement fund I received today I find I've actually grown some since the first of the year. I bailed early because I took a 20% hit in the tech plunge during the 1st year of the Bush administration; another one of those and I'll never retire. My personal savings went into CD's and money markets at the same time. Of course if everything tanks this will be meaningless. I'm also in the situation of having to look for a job, and signed up with a bunch of headhunters out of Boston - asked about my preferences for employment outside the US I put Aus/NZ at the top of the list. Now, if only. I'd love to see Downunder and live in a decent house.