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| Monday, January 3rd, 2011 | | 1:07 pm |
@@@@@ "Well, that's generous of you," I saidThe @@@@@ "Well, that's generous of you," I saidThe money came with a hitch I took your advice of using his strong desire to buy a car and use that energy so he could learn something "So what was the hitch?" I asked "Well, first we broke out your game again, CASHFLOWWe played it and had a long discussion about the wise use of money I then gave him a subscription to the Wall Street Journal, and a few books on the stock market "Then what?" I asked "What was the catch?" "I told him the $3,000 was his, but he could not directly buy a car with itHe could use it to buy and sell stocks, find his own stockbroker, and once he had made $6,000 with the $3,000, the money would be his for the car, and the $3,000 would go into his college fund "And what are the results?" I asked "Well, he got lucky early in his trading, but lost all he gained a few days laterThen, he really got interestedToday, I would say he is down $2,000, but his interest is upHe has read all the books I bought him and he's gone to the library to get moreHe reads the Wall Street Journal voraciously, watching for indicators, and he watches CNBC instead of MTVHe's got only $1,000 left, but his interest and learning are sky highHe knows that if he loses that money, he walks for two more yearsBut he does not seem to careHe even seems uninterested in getting a car because he's found a game that is more fun "What happens if he loses all the money?" I asked "We'll cross that bridge when we get to itI'd rather have him lose everything now rather than wait till he's our age to risk losing everythingAnd besides, that is the best $3,000 I've ever spent on his educationWhat he is learning will serve him for life, and he seems to have gained a new respect for the power of mone | | 6:58 am |
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Martinez moved along for a few hundred yards through the tall grass, keeping well within the shadow of the cliffsAs he advanced, he awakened slowly, flexing his arms and pinching the back of his neckHe had been partially asleep while he had talked to Croft, or at least nothing that was said had any significance to himHe had understood the directions, the mission, he had known that Croft was telling him to do something and instinctively he obeyed, but he had not thought about the connotationsIt had not seemed particularly dangerous or odd to be going out by himself at night into country he had never seen before Now of course as his mind cleared it was becoming apparent to himDamn fool thing? he wondered, and then dismissed itIf Croft had told him it was necessary, then obviously it wasHis senses became alerted, his nerve ends poisedHe moved forward with an effortless silent motion, placing his heel first on the ground, and then bringing his toes down gently, his body weaving through the grass to diminish the rustlingA man twenty yards away could not have been certain that anyone was approachingAnd yet with this he did not go slowly; through experience, his feet seemed to paw the ground, avoiding stones or twigs, settling confidently, noiselesslyHe was functioning more like an animal now than a man He was frightened, but effectively so; he had no panic, and it left him intensely aware of everything he could see or feelOn the ship, in the assault boat that landed on Anopopei, a dozen times since, he had been close to hysteria, worth nothing at all, but that variety of fear had nothing to do with thisIf he had had to endure one more artillery shelling he might have collapsed; his terror always expanded in a situation where he could do nothing to affect it, but now he was by himself, doing the thing he could perform better than any man he knew, and it supported himAll the successful reassuring connotations of other scouting missions he had made in the past year were stored beneath the surface of his thoughts Martinez best man in recon, he said to himself with prideCroft had told him this once, and he had never forgotten it In twenty minutes he had reached the rock shelf where they had been ambushedHe squatted in the woods behind it and examined the ledge for several minutes before advancing againAnd then behind the ledge he watched the field and the grove where the Japanese had fired at themIn the moonlight the field was a wan silver and the grove an impenetrable black-green far deeper than the blanched transparent shadows that surrounded itBehind him and to his right he could feel the huge body of the mountain glowing oddly in the darkness like a vast monument illumined by spotlights For perhaps five minutes he peered at the field and the grove, thinking of nothing at all, his eyes and ears the only part of him wholly alive | | Sunday, January 2nd, 2011 | | 1:07 pm |
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the @@@@@The fountain was two blocks from the entrance, but it was so enormous that it looked very closeArcs and jets of water lifted and fell like showering diamonds from every direction Scarlett was spellbound; she'd never seen anything so spectacular "Come along now," said Jamie, "it gets better as you get closerThere was a bright sun that made rainbows in the dancing waters; they flashed, vanished, reappeared with every step Scarlett tookThe whitewashed trunks of the trees that lined the path glimmered in the dappled shade from their leaves, leading to the sparkling dazzle of the fountainWhen she reached the iron fence that circled the fountain's basin, she had to tilt her head back to near dizziness to look at the nymph atop its third her, a statue bigger than she was, the arm held high, grasping a staff that threw a plume of water high, high toward the brilliant blue sky"I like the serpent-men myself," Maureen commented"They always look to me like they're enjoying themselves Scarlett looked where Maureen was pointingThe bronze mermen knelt in the huge basin on their elegantly coiled scaly tails with one hand on hip, the other holding a horn to the lipsThe men spread rugs under the oak tree Maureen selected, and the women put down their basketsMary Kate and Kathleen deposited Patricia's little girl and Katie's smallest boy on the grass to crawl The older children were running and jumping in some game of their own design"I'll rest my feet," Patricia saidBilly helped her to sit with her back against the tree trunk"Go on," she said crossly, "no need for you to spend all day at my elbow He kissed her cheek, slid the straps of the concertina off his shoulder, and put it down beside her "I'll play you a fine tune later," he promisedThen he strolled toward a group of men in the distance who were playing baseball "Go get in trouble with him, Matt," Katie suggested to her husband "Yes, go on, the lot of you," Maureen saidShe made shooing motions with her handsJamie and his tall sons set off at a run Colum and Gerald walked behind them with Matt and Bil | | Saturday, January 1st, 2011 | | 1:14 pm |
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@@@@@t's easier than weaving through the creosote @@@@@t's easier than weaving through the creosote and watching out for cholla She didn't answer, but her unease made me feel a little paranoidI kept up my search for the next formation–a perfectM, two matching volcanic points–but I also watched the desert around me more carefully than before Because I was paying extra attention, I noticed the gray smudge in the distance long before I could make out what it wasI wondered if my eyes were playing tricks on me and blinked against the dust that clouded themThe color seemed wrong for a rock, and the shape too solid for a treeI squinted into the brightness, making guesses Then I blinked again, and the smudge suddenly jumped into a structured shape, closer than I'd been thinkingIt was some kind of house or building, small and weathered to a dull gray Melanie's spike of panic had me dancing off the narrow lane and into the dubious cover of the barren brush'm sure it's abandoned How do you know?She was holding back so hard that I had to concentrate on my feet before I could move them forward Who would live out here? We souls live for society heard the bitter edge to my explanation and knew it was because of where I now stood–physically and metaphorically in the middle of nowhereWhy did I no longer belong to the society of souls? Why did I feel like I didn't… like I didn'twant to belong? Had I ever really been a part of the community that was meant to be my own, or was that the reason behind my long line of lives lived in transience? Had I always been an aberration, or was this something Melanie was making me into? Had this planet changed me, or revealed me for what I already was? Melanie had no patience for my personal crisis–she wanted me to get far away from that building as fast as possibleHer thoughts yanked and twisted at mine, pulling me out of my introspection Calm down,I ordered, trying to focus my thoughts, to separate them from hersf there is anything that actually lives here, it would be humanTrust me on this; there is no such thing as a hermit among soulsMaybe your Uncle Jeb – She rejected that thought harshlyo one could survive out in the open like thisYour kind would have searched any habitation thoroughlyWhoever lived here ran or became one of you Uncle Jeb would have a better hiding place And if whoever lived here became one of us,I assured her,then they left this pl | | 7:06 am |
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"And Adriana," Wireman said"Did Perse get @@@@@ "And Adriana," Wireman said"Did Perse get her, too?" "I don't know," I said Reluctantly I added: "Probably 867 "We haven't seen Adriana," Wireman said "But the little girls drowned," Jack saidLike he was trying to get it straight"This Perse-thing lured them into the water "But then there was a search "There had to be, Jack," Wireman said"People knew they were gone "I know that," Jack said"It's what I'm saying So Elizabeth and her Dad and the housekeeper just dummied up?" "What other choice?" I asked"Was John Eastlake going to tell forty or fifty volunteers 'The boogeylady took my daughters, look for the boogeylady?' He might not even have known Although he must have found out at some point I was thinking of the picture of him screaming Screaming and bleeding "What other choice covers it for me," Wireman said "I want to know what happened after the search was overJust before she died, Miss Eastlake said something about drowning her back to sleepDid 868 she mean Perse? And if she did, how does a thing like that work?" I shook my head "Why don't you know?" "Because the rest of the answers are on the south end of the island," I said"At whatever's left of the original Heron's RoostAnd I think that's where Perse is, too "All right, then," Wireman said | | Thursday, December 30th, 2010 | | 1:07 pm |
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@@@@@How do you afford a good education for your @@@@@How do you afford a good education for your children and provide for your own retirement? It is an example of using financial intelligence instead of hard work to achieve the same goal A friend of mine was griping one day about how hard it was to save money for his four children's college educationHe was putting $300 away in a mutual fund each month and had so far accumulated about $12,000 He estimated he needed $400,000 to get four children through collegeHe had 12 years to save for it, since his oldest child was then 6 years of age The year was 1991, and the real estate market in Phoenix was terriblePeople were giving houses awayI suggested to my classmate that he buy a house with some of the money in his mutual fundThe idea intrigued him and we began to discuss the possibilityHis primary concern was that he did not have the credit with the bank to buy another house, since he was so over-extendedI assured him that there were other ways to finance a property other than through the bank We looked for a house for two weeks, a house that would fit all the criteria we were looking forThere were a lot to choose from, so the shopping was kind of funFinally, we found a 3 bedroom 2 bath home in a prime neighborhoodThe owner had been downsized and needed to sell that day because he and his family were moving to California where another job waited He wanted $102,000, but we offered only $79,000He took it immediatelyThe home had on it what is called a non-qualifying loan, which means even a bum without a job could buy it without a banker's approvalThe owner owed $72,000 so all my friend had to come up with was $7,000, the difference in price between what was owed and what it sold forAs soon as the owner moved, my friend put the house up for rentAfter all expenses were paid, including the mortgage, he put about $125 in his pocket each month
His plan was to keep the house for 12 years and let the mortgage get paid down faster, by applying the extra $125 to the principle each monthWe figured that in 12 years, a large portion of the mortgage would be paid off and he could possibly be clearing $800 a month by the time his first child went to collegeHe could also sell the house if it had appreciated in value In 1994, the real estate market suddenly changed in Phoenix and he was offered $156,000 for the same house by the tenant who lived in it and loved | | Wednesday, December 29th, 2010 | | 1:07 pm |
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yourself this walk @@@@@I wish you had saved yourself this walk home “No part of it fatigues me but getting off this horse, I assure you,” said she, as she sprang down with his help; “I am very strongNothing ever fatigues me but doing what I do not likeMiss Price, I give way to you with a very bad grace; but I sincerely hope you will have a pleasant ride, and that I may have nothing but good to hear of this dear, delightful, beautiful animal The old coachman, who had been waiting about with his own horse, now joining them, Fanny was lifted on hers, and they set off across another part of the park; her feelings of discomfort not lightened by seeing, as she looked back, that the others were walking down the hill together to the village; nor did her attendant do her much good by his comments on Miss Crawford’s great cleverness as a horse-woman, which he had been watching with an interest almost equal to her own “It is a pleasure to see a lady with such a good heart for riding!” said he“I never see one sit a horse betterShe did not seem to have a thought of fearVery different from you, miss, when you first began, six years ago come next EasterLord bless you! how you did tremble when Sir Thomas first had you put on!” In the drawing-room Miss Crawford was also celebratedHer merit in being gifted by Nature with strength and courage was fully appreciated by the Miss Bertrams; her delight in riding was like their own; her early excellence in it was like their own, and they had great pleasure in praising it “I was sure she would ride well,” said Julia; “she has the make for itHer figure is as neat as her brother’s “Yes,” added Maria, “and her spirits are as good, and she has the same energy of characterI cannot but think that good horsemanship has a great deal to do with the mind When they parted at night Edmund asked Fanny whether she meant to ride the next day “No, I do not know—not if you want the mare,” was her answer “I do not want her at all for myself,” said he; “‘but whenever you 61 Jane Austen are next inclined to stay at home, I think Miss Crawford would be glad to have her a longer time—for a whole morning, in shortShe has a great desire to get as far as Mansfield Common: MrsGrant has been telling her of its fine views, and I have no doubt of her being perfectly equal to itBut any morning will do for thisShe would be extremely sorry to interfere with youIt would be very wrong if she didShe rides only for pleasure; you for health “I shall not ride to-morrow, certainly,” said Fanny; “I have been out very often lately, and would rather stay at |
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