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Ramsey
					 
				 
				Hey guys (and gals?)
I started reading you guys a week or two back & thought I'd step up and say hello - finally.
What I've gathered, this forum is most fortunate to have the likes of you all & I'm quite pleased to stumble into this thread.  Okay, I didn't really stumble - a buddy of mine mentioned that he had been in communication with a few of you and spoke highly of his interaction.
I must say that I agree with him.  It's refreshing to have such level of educated and respectful folks - indeed.
A little about me - I'm a photographer, in San Diego, on the disabled list.  So, I've used my down time (wisely?) to become more familiar with the market and even to invest more.
What's funny, in a not_so_tasty way, is that we (the wife & I) bought into Sirius back when Howard signed on.  Why?  Well, my wife was in love with him - okay, maybe she just enjoyed listening?!? - and we knew that there were plenty of folks *just like her*, so we bought the stock & then bought the service.
We watched our investment go up and then we watched it go down.
skipping the unsavory - run for the can because I'm going to throw up stuff that happened in between then and now...
Well, I'll consider the "now" to be when Mel announced the end of the merger - because that's when we bought back in - and then watched the dog get sick, again.
This year, since having the time to educate myself, we jumped back into Sirius with both feet & our checkbook.
We made some smart, if not brazen (and perhaps the polar opposite of what our financial advisor would say to do), we've double & even tripled down on Siri and have increased our position tremendously while averaging down to a very nice level.
side note:  it's really weird to have TDA put us on it's "hey, you've hit such and such mark on your portfolio and now we're going to give you free stuff" list.
The plan, as it were, was to add and average down and then take our money back and play with free shares.
Now - well, isn't it funny how the "over core" shares manage to sneak into the "core" shares?  Yeah, we're now officially LONG on all shares.
So, what do I do now?  Now that we're long on all of Siri?  Quite the conundrum ;-)
After going through the messages on this board, I decided to purchase a few shares of QASP - 3 lots at this point.  Not a lot of $ - I'm under $700 in.
Why did I buy?  There's really only one reason when it comes down to it - and that's their acquisitions that are due to close at the end of the month.
My plan for that is to take my cash back between a nickel & 6 and let the rest do whatever it'll do.
After that, I plan on turning off my computer and take up swimming as a hobby...it's a hell of a lot less stressful ;-)
Well, there's *that* and also the fact that I really don't like getting up early.
So, there ya go - I'm officially de-lurked.  You all know that I'm here and you know my basic story.
Happy days to you all and to you, Happy Days
Ramsey