Yahoo - What to do?

My first real moneymaking stock was Netscape on a boyfriend tip. Got rid of the boyfriend and tripled my initial investment in 3 months. A year later I bumped into the ex and thanked him for the Netscape tip. He said buy $10,000 worth of Yahoo. It was the very late 90's. I did and did a double in a month. I was greedy so later that year I called for a tip and I was told to short Qualcomm. Big mistake - lost everything I gained. - Pigs get slaughtered. If I'd only have held out for one year I would have been fine. But I was working to pay my margin call - not to mention the rent. I even stopped eating lunch.
Back to Yahoo. So after 9/11 and the tanking market the year that followed, I was picking up Yahoo on the way down. I sold half at the Mister Softy announcement and kept the other because I met/worked with Roy Bostock at one of his ad agencies. He was clueless about the internet then and probably still is. I like to be in the game so I left on the table. I got the Carl Icahn proxy and a phone call to support his team. I was all set to do that except - There is not one women on his board. So now I'm looking to Jerry Yang and want to know his vision.
Will I Yahoo again?

Cutie Speak

Cutie Speak.
For over a year cutie comes up with her own words and definitions.
Chalisy Chalisy means I want to dance.
Ten means you have the last house.

Speaking of dancing - Zumba is the exercise class I took today at the JCC. Yes, even though I think the JCC tagline "you belong here" is pathetic and didn't join earlier because of it. (I want to be part of something that is cool - not where everyone goes. And, of course, the Woody Allen quote rings true for me - I never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member.) But with the contractors coming everyday to work on our house - I need a place to go while they are working. Anyway.

Zumba is wrong for me - I don't do well with aerobic classes. I'm too tall and thin. I need to stick to yoga, pilates, and things that guys do.
Oh well.

Spain Design Gets It

I'm coming back from Fuda tile and see a sign "kitchen and bath" Porcelanosa. Never heard of them. Stop by anyway. WOW - It's me. I felt like Cutie in a toy store of fairy mermaids (she's into that these days - more on that later).
OMG - Porcelanosa gave me chills. Finally someplace that has what I like. And it's not that expensive. It's more than Fuda Tile but less than the slate tile I bought at Home Depot.
The amazing thing is that Laura at Fuda Tile (The New Yorker should do a story on her) can read people and direct them to the tile that you didn't even know they were looking for. You come in clueless, she asks you a few questions, picks out a few things, you take it home and OMG - it's it.
Porcelanosa style looks like a Prada showroom. They manufacture everything from tile to fixtures to cabinets.
The thing is that tile I pick out and had in my car trunk was similar to Porcelanosa. The bath vanity from Sonia was similar. Both my Sonia and Porcelansosa are Spainish companies.
Italy - you are losing me to Spain.

I could have told you that.

using history as a yardstick, life actually is better and richer and fuller, with more opportunities than ever before.
"Objectively things are going real well," says author Gregg Easterbrook, who discusses the disconnect in his book "The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse."
We are very spoiled.

Renovations On The House

We started fixing things. First it was the water, septic, and roof. Now it's the broken bathrooms, electrical and general things that don't work or are dangerous. Rockland County isn't known for good clean design. It's so hard to find modern anything. Most people here think expensive in terms of square feet and they have middle class tastes of what looks good.
I wanted a Duravit bathroom. I was told I had to wait 8 months for a toliet. So I'm doing toto. The bathtub and vanity will be purchased online.
Here's a list of people and places we recommend:
Contractor - Joseph Franco
Septic system - (to come
Well water - to come
Tucek - roof
Fuda tile in Ramsey NJ - thanks to my friend who recommended them.


Here's a list of people who could be more helpful.
Home Depot and Home Expo - useless. You can't even find someone to order something.
AF plumbing Congers. you got to know what you want- They make you pick stuff up and check. No returns
Rockland Tile -Valley Cottage - The jury is out. At least they are always there.

Latest Cutie Photos

Here's some photos from a wedding a few weeks ago.

Too Sad to Say Please

Cutie is whining. She want's OJ and can't say please because she is too sad. Whay? Daddy's not home.

We just got something from Cutie's school that is leading me to believe I made a "not so smart" decision. First the mailing should have been paperless. Second how they phrased things in the mailing was really stupid.
1. What's this crap about choice between Spanish and Talmud. They should have both
2. Why are there two math classes. At level and Above level. There is no reason why everyone shouldn't be above level. That's what happened when I was in 7th and 8th grade. If they put me in a lower math class, I wouldn't have felt that I could do it. Stupid Stupid Stupid.
3. What so many binders. One binder with sections.