tezka

Look at it this way: IT (the RV) either will happen or will not happen. We all believe it will happen. So there are two factors for consideration: 1. When? 2. How much (dollars to the dinar)? for 1. As with all gambles (or more politely, self deceptively, "investments") UNTIL IT'S IN THE BANK, OR BETTER, UNTIL IT IS IN HAND, IT IS JUST EXCITING CONVERSATION. Or maybe just wistful dreams. So who is the best person to evaluate all the factors of merit and get us/keep us on track? Not me. But I believe (feel) it really will come to be within this month, OR all hell hell break loose, in terms or world currency, Iraqi politics, or religious internal war (OK, all wars are religious you may say, but elsewhere for that discussion). So there we are. Where the HELL are we? for 2. That is the most lip-licking dream to drift away on. Take your dinars, look at them and see them all change, magically transmute into dollars: Hello my little 25,000 bill. Cost me a couple of hundred bucks. Abra kadabra, you are now twenty five thousand dollars. No! You are sixty (plus) thousand dollars. Shoot, not NOW! ! damn alarm clock - - - Got to be up and moving, I love my family, but they all think I'm losing it at a rapid rate. What do they know? Think how much those Mary Kay fantasy-world people are pulling down. How can I be crazy if: a.) they are not; b.) they are not thinking of changing jobs? Let's all keep our sanity; keep more than one basket for the eggs (unless you're vegan), and as my old friend Winston Churchill said, standing among the smoking, dripping ruins of a London suburban neighborhood: "Never give up. Never, NEVER give up." And we didn't. And miracles happened. And I'm still not giving up. What's the big deal? Thanks God, for the growing. It will surely come in useful down the way. Tezka Look at it this way: IT (the RV) either will happen or will not happen. We all believe it will happen. So there are two factors for consideration: 1. When? 2. How much (dollars to the dinar)? for 1. As with all gambles (or more politely, self deceptively, "investments") UNTIL IT'S IN THE BANK, OR BETTER, UNTIL IT IS IN HAND, IT IS JUST EXCITING CONVERSATION. Or maybe just wistful dreams. So who is the best person to evaluate all the factors of merit and get us/keep us on track? Not me. But I believe (feel) it really will come to be within this month, OR all hell hell break loose, in terms or world currency, Iraqi politics, or religious internal war (OK, all wars are religious you may say, but elsewhere for that discussion). So there we are. Where the HELL are we? for 2. That is the most lip-licking dream to drift away on. Take your dinars, look at them and see them all change, magically transmute into dollars: Hello my little 25,000 bill. Cost me a couple of hundred bucks. Abra kadabra, you are now twenty five thousand dollars. No! You are sixty (plus) thousand dollars. Shoot, not NOW! ! damn alarm clock - - - Got to be up and moving, I love my family, but they all think I'm losing it at a rapid rate. What do they know? Think how much those Mary Kay fantasy-world people are pulling down. How can I be crazy if: a.) they are not; b.) they are not thinking of changing jobs? Let's all keep our sanity; keep more than one basket for the eggs (unless you're vegan), and as my old friend Winston Churchill said, standing among the smoking, dripping ruins of a London suburban neighborhood: "Never give up. Never, NEVER give up." And we didn't. And miracles happened. And I'm still not giving up. What's the big deal? Thanks God, for the growing. It will surely come in useful down the way. Tezka

I hope most sincerely that the point will be mute by then, by virtue of RV having happened ten days ago, i.e. today or tomorrow