Stockmarket frenzy
May. 12th, 2004 11:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skyringA couple of days ago I got a misdirected confirmation of a subscription to some investment newsletter. Turned out someone with a similar name and email address had paid $360 for it and the staff had entered my addy. This caused a bit of angst on both sides until we got it sorted out.
And then this morning an electronic summary arrived in my inbox. Obviously they haven't changed the addy over, but I still took a squizz. A couple of the recommendations teed up with some ideas I'd been having for a while - to take the profit on a couple of good stocks and buy up on something that was undervalued.
So after a bit of research, I did. Sold a couple and bought one. Can't say as I like juggling three stocks at once. In hindsight, as I get a month to pay but the money appears in my account after a week, I should have bought first, as it turns out I could have squeezed a few hundred dollars more out of the stocks I sold. Oh well, we made a decent profit out of them anyway. Here's hoping the stock I bought keeps on going up. Now I've got to sort it all out in my accounting program.
An interesting SQL Server Interest Group session last night. Only a half dozen of us showed up, and as Microsoft had gotten its wires crossed, with two different people ordering pizza and drinks from two different sources, we had a good range to choose from, not to mention twice as much as we needed. The session itself was on locks, blocks and deadlocks, pretty dry stuff for most people, I guess, but fascinating for geekoid folk like me. Especially when delivered by someone who knows and loves his stuff.
Tried to install a copy of Whidbey last night. Didn't work - the installation was looking for some file that wasn't available. Have to hunt through Microsoft for help on that.
Feeling pretty geeky at the moment. Might write something to show market depth in a graphical fashion, once I get SQL installed in a useful location.
And then this morning an electronic summary arrived in my inbox. Obviously they haven't changed the addy over, but I still took a squizz. A couple of the recommendations teed up with some ideas I'd been having for a while - to take the profit on a couple of good stocks and buy up on something that was undervalued.
So after a bit of research, I did. Sold a couple and bought one. Can't say as I like juggling three stocks at once. In hindsight, as I get a month to pay but the money appears in my account after a week, I should have bought first, as it turns out I could have squeezed a few hundred dollars more out of the stocks I sold. Oh well, we made a decent profit out of them anyway. Here's hoping the stock I bought keeps on going up. Now I've got to sort it all out in my accounting program.
An interesting SQL Server Interest Group session last night. Only a half dozen of us showed up, and as Microsoft had gotten its wires crossed, with two different people ordering pizza and drinks from two different sources, we had a good range to choose from, not to mention twice as much as we needed. The session itself was on locks, blocks and deadlocks, pretty dry stuff for most people, I guess, but fascinating for geekoid folk like me. Especially when delivered by someone who knows and loves his stuff.
Tried to install a copy of Whidbey last night. Didn't work - the installation was looking for some file that wasn't available. Have to hunt through Microsoft for help on that.
Feeling pretty geeky at the moment. Might write something to show market depth in a graphical fashion, once I get SQL installed in a useful location.
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Date: 2004-05-11 09:49 pm (UTC)Life hasn't been the same since. :-)