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the idiot wrote:

la gente ésta muy loca wrote:

Hey Maser, hope your not skiing in the French Alps and socializing with the Brits.

I had the same thought.

I'm still more concerned about this bug than I'm being told to be...

wtf Mas is skiing in the Alps? And didn't invite me? Meanwhile I'm stuck with sh!tty East Coast skiing

Hi guys, that is exactly what I am doing.

Only we have a place on the lake and don’t stay with others, and so far have skiied only our local hills.

Where there are Brits.?

Parisians are swarming everywhere right now, they just started 2 weeks of vacation.

We are sort of locals here, and do not spend time with tourists—but the Geneva airport, holy crap. Talk about a petri dish—ski douches from around the world, and a miasma of Brits. Unfortunately we flew commercial and were in the airport with everybody.

The infected people/resort is not where we are, nor will we go there. It is close to places where there is some good skiing, but we won’t be going anywhere near it. Usually we come before all the vacation crap starts, but there was hardly any snow at xmas this season.

I think that the infected guy from Singapore went through the airport on his way to England a few days before we did, so who knows—maybe everybody who went through there has it. If so, it’s game over. The world goes through GVA.

Will be on the hill early tomorrow. We are already avoiding anybody who speaks english, even more so than usual?. I feel like canceling our social engagements, just in case we are infected and asymptomatic, which seems to be a vanishingly low probability proposition. There will be some explaining to do. Also might not do some other side trips like Paris, but I have business to do in a few places that I cannot ignore.

Staying in tonight, hot bath, enjoying the lights off the lake and surfing the web. Will keep you guys posted—boots on the ground! (Not really, but whatever.) ⛷

seattle prattle wrote:

Even if that were true, those investors who recognized the stimulus for what it was and capitalized for it would be rewarded accordingly. Manipulation of interest rates and other factors affecting liquidity are just some of the factors affecting the economy, business cycles, and the markets in general. There will always be factors bearing on it. We just went through a good one. Some investors used that to their advantage.

Exactly, well put, especially before the first comma.?

Hey Racket I thought you just landed a big job! No way you have time for skiing, I wouldn’ want to hurt your feelings by inviting you.

It’s not all roses, anyway. I have business to do here. Also, my wife has some family in France, ugh. On Monday I get the pleasure of trying to pay some taxes here, which is super-difficult when the office is perpetually closed, and when they have your contact information incorrect because they are incompetent. They love piling up unlawful penalties.?

Masi, that sounds like a whole lot of fun! Have a great time, and it really paints a invigorating picture. Nice!

I ran six miles, hit Costco, took my car for a wash at the dealer, then washed my wife’s car. I am settling down to watch Millrose Games. After I will touch-up the rock chips on my wife’s car. I guess I should have been trading AMZN and TSLA for easy bucks, let someone else do my chores. ?

You have no idea.

Through no fault of my own, I know someone who lives in a real castle, I have lunched with a President, I knew the secret and secure haunts of mistresses, and best of all I am friends with an old Mirage pilot who is a cult figure and for whom fly-by’s are arranged over the lake, last summer a nice low-altitude 4-ship for the last flight of one of his students, while we were at the beach club. You would not believe what I know and how I end up in these situations. I have difficulty believing it myself.

How do I end up wherever? Because I don’t care about being there and do not try to be there, because I am independent, and need—and take—nothing from anyone. And they know it. I cannot be bought, I have never, ever betrayed a confidence, and I have never broken a vow of fidelity. I should have been a butler, or a gardener...and you know what? I would still like to end my time on the planet by being a gardener...also coaching kids, and saving dogs. Hopefully less like Forrest Gump and more like, say, Basho (maybe).

And I will do it, but I have to wrap up complexities first. Unless the coronavirus gets me. But tomorrow will be clear, cold, and sunny, and the skiing, the food, and the company will be magnificent. Tomorrow, I will live for the day.

Don’t worry Igy, on Monday I have to order and then install a new control module in our oven...and the week after, a new tub mixer. The glamor!?

Enjoy your time away before you resume the joys of home ownership.

seattle prattle wrote:

Hey, Igy, considering the vast time frame you have been pushing this narrative, maybe you should be using this instead:

https://media.istockphoto.com/vectors/concept-of-lateness-vector-id878650056

Oh snap!

Ghost of Igloi wrote:

https://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2017/6/23/532599-14982315146590085.png

Okay, you win. I showed the sequence to the wife and that one really got her laughing.

And I'm smart enough to know that that's what counts.

Good, all in fun!

Ghost of Igloi wrote:

I ran six miles, hit Costco, took my car for a wash at the dealer, then washed my wife’s car. I am settling down to watch Millrose Games. After I will touch-up the rock chips on my wife’s car. I guess I should have been trading AMZN and TSLA for easy bucks, let someone else do my chores. ?

You talk about your chores, but you took your car to the dealer for a wash? But not your wife’s car?

Helloooooooo? wrote:

Ghost of Igloi wrote:

I ran six miles, hit Costco, took my car for a wash at the dealer, then washed my wife’s car. I am settling down to watch Millrose Games. After I will touch-up the rock chips on my wife’s car. I guess I should have been trading AMZN and TSLA for easy bucks, let someone else do my chores. ?

You talk about your chores, but you took your car to the dealer for a wash? But not your wife’s car?

Bought both cars at same dealer, you get free car washes on Saturday. Usually just take one car in since the dealer is about ten miles from our house, most often mine since it is my daily. Typically run with my mates, coffee, grocery store, stop for a wash. Thursday I had a new windshield installed on the wife’s car; no high pressure washes for two weeks. I hand washed my wife’s car before rock chip touch-ups.

Maserati wrote:

Hey Racket I thought you just landed a big job! No way you have time for skiing, I wouldn’ want to hurt your feelings by inviting you.

It’s not all roses, anyway. I have business to do here. Also, my wife has some family in France, ugh. On Monday I get the pleasure of trying to pay some taxes here, which is super-difficult when the office is perpetually closed, and when they have your contact information incorrect because they are incompetent. They love piling up unlawful penalties.?

I have been working up a storm at my new job and since I have a nice stock option now (and actual reason to stay at this company... really wish more businesses these days offered incentives for loyalty) I'm all in on rigged stock markets and infinite QE.

I'm actually going to France and Germany (Normandy over to Belgium and then to Rhineland and down and over to Munich). No skiing, but a nice sort of tour.

All thanks to Trump for this super charged economy!! (kidding)

Racket wrote:I'm actually going to France and Germany (Normandy over to Belgium and then to Rhineland and down and over to Munich)....

If you're looking for any travel suggestions, let me know. If you like you can drop me a note on gmail, where I am "theLRCidiot..."

Hey good for you racket. I can’t believe you haven’t invited me?.

What are you doing, retracing the steps of the third reich? Rolling through Belgium should be pretty easy?. I have very fond memories of a beer garden in Munich, I think we might be going back there at the end of this summer to visit a friend.

Great to hear the job’s going well. Pretty decent if you already get time for a good vacation! Remember to try to get in some running while on the road, I have found that it makes a big difference in how I feel when traveling.

You doing bnb? It has worked very well for me over here.