[Boomer]

Thank you, X. It is so hard sometimes to be understood in just print I know. All is forgiven.

And thank you, I2ridehd, for your kind words.

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I love stories and I love to talk about stocks and this week's news sure combined the two -- and it was a stock that I actually happen to know a few stories about.

I am glad peace is restored here. I must confess that I had almost reached the point of.....yes.....I must confess....I was reaching the point of planning to ask about any favorite utilities stocks......oh I am such a snoozeroonie sometimes.

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l2ridehd, (and thanks again) -- now that we are here in the same room (so to speak) I really have to ask you a question. You have been around here for a long time, too, and I always read your posts. Someday, I am going to have to get into one of those real estate discussions. I like real estate discussions. But my question is about your screen name. Does your screen name mean "I, too, ride Harley-Davidson"? I realize that this seems like a silly question, but I am almost, though not quite sure I am reading your name right. It's the first part I am not sure about. A little part of me thinks it might be a 'twelve.' -- you know, like riding a Harley along with eleven other people riding theirs. Sometimes the obvious can escape me and I end up asking silly questions. Either way for the reading of your name - it is a beautiful bike indeed.

Anyway, I know I am jumping the track again, but actually I could tell the stock story about owning HDI before it was HOG. I bought Mr. Boomer 50 shares for his 50th birthday and I wrote a little poem to go with it. Made a bunch of promises about how when that stock reached high enough, he could buy the bike. The 50 split and went up again. Ended up selling it at a good time. It never reached the bike price, of course, but the sell covered the cost of getting his instrument rating. (I think I told that story one other time here - Geez. Been around a while.) -- (Now, see, X, if I were rich, I would have bought not only the bike, but also the airplane to go with the instrument rating, not just a few shares of stock as seed money.) -- I am winking at X here, but I cannot find the winking emoticon to use.

Stories about stocks....geez. Or was it a story about buying a birthday present for Mr. Boomer that was a whole lot cheaper and a whole lot easier to wrap than one of those exquisite machines that make the most beautiful sound on the road.

Anyway, thanks, you two. It is not often that I get into a snit. And while I was in my snit, I went over to Word and wrote a really snitty post about that awful show "Sunset Daze" but I did not post it. I might though. (It is a cold day here in Cincy. And I planned to work in the yard, today .But it is cold and windy out there and I keep walking by this infernal machine and getting sidetracked.)

Boomer