At work? What kind of work do you do?

I operate heavy machinery. Ha! I'm an office manager - not much to do though and the bosses are out for opening day of hunting.

In our refrigerator here at work, we have a few alcoholic beverages to choose from. I said to co-worker, "that looks so good I am tempted to have one with my lunch!" Being the bad influence that she is, she rinsed out a couple of coffee cups and we treated ourselves. I'm going to need a nap pretty soon.....

Mary's picture of her and a Friend drinking beer...and now this...is there something you would like to share with us And, are you doing any hiring there Tim

I once had an interview with a company that had a vending machine stocked with beer for 10 cents each. They told me no one drank during the day but once 5:00 came around ... It was a really pleasant interview. (I did end up taking a job with them years later, but by then the beer machine was gone - no doubt for liability reasons.) Bill

when Apple was really struggling (pre iPod days), I bought several hundred shares at 13... still have 'em! I have a few gems like that in my IRA...

Erika, good for you. I generally don't buy individual stocks because it takes so much research, and I generally don't try to time the market because (a) it is a theoretically discredited (though popular) approach; and (b) I like to buy for the long term. Dark Horse

Dicky - thanks for mentioning DS. Yep, 16:40, and he was upset! He REALLY wants to go sub-16 this year. It wouldn't surprise me if he did. Last year, in outdoor track, he told me he wanted to break 9:40 in the 3200. I thought he was nuts, since his PR was 10:00 or so, but he ended up at 9:39 at the New England meet. He really goes after goals in a big way! DH's sister converted to Judaism when she got married, so we get to celebrate Jewish holidays with her family. Her husband is quite a scholar, so he and DH enjoy talking about Jewish history. They are on opposite ends of the political and religious spectrum, so it's neat they have this in common. We got to go to their three sons' Bar Mitzvahs, too. My kids are each about 10 years younger than them, so my main memory is sitting outside the synagogue with one of my little ones for long lengths of time! Good parties afterwards, though. My right arch is STILL sore, even though I keep icing it. After my 8.7-mile run yesterday, I decided to take today off to give it a rest.

Tramps.... Jcertainly one of the premier Universities in the country. [...] Yeah...I live about 5-6 miles from Martinsville... [...] I'm a Wahoo.

That’s funny. I thought it was the back-up school for kids who didn’t get into an Ivy? That’s how many students thought of it. (It never occurred to me to apply to an Ivy, since those were places for kids of the rich.) Seriously, though, I had no idea what I was doing going there; I had never heard of it and knew nothing about schools. No one in my family had ever gone to college and my high school was a regional vo-tech school (auto shop, welding, etc) so I got zero guidance. I ended up there, as I said, entirely because they gave me the best aid package. Look up “fish out of water” in the dictionary; it has a picture of me at Brandeis. Since I had no experience with college, I assumed it was college; I didn’t realize at the time what a unique place it was. But I found a niche, made friends (often with similarly alienated foreign students), learned a lot, and met my (now) DW. Lucky guy. I don’t know it well, but the general area you live in seems like really pretty country. And UVA’s certainly a flagship school.

October already! Going a bit crazy with my taper efforts and trying to size up my sore sciatica. I did not run today ; swam a mile instead. I am more nervous than usual and work has been stressful and I need more exercise than I am getting. AHHHHHHH Good luck to all taperers...

That’s funny. I thought it was the back-up school for kids who didn’t get into an Ivy? That’s how many students thought of it. (It never occurred to me to apply to an Ivy, since those were places for kids of the rich.) ... I ended up there, as I said, entirely because they gave me the best aid package.

Tramps, I went to an Ivy (Penn) because it was free! My dad was an engineering professor there, so I got a full faculty scholarship. I, too, felt kind of like a fish out of water there, but I got a good edukayshun and made some lifelong friends.