I've lost money

[Fat Tone]

If you two were in a bar I'd be handing out the gloves and telling you to get on with it.

Now get on the murc UT server and sort it out I had a feeling at about post 5 things were going to go this way.

Bottom line: the world markets need to recover very strongly very quickly or Tony and Brian ARE and WILL BE poor boys.

[cjolley]

Originally posted by Fat Tone
If you two were in a bar I'd be handing out the gloves and telling you to get on with it.

Now get on the murc UT server and sort it out I had a feeling at about post 5 things were going to go this way.

Bottom line: the world markets need to recover very strongly very quickly or Tony and Brian ARE and WILL BE poor boys.

If we were in a bar, how would we hoist a brew with those stupid gloves on?
I mean, after all, one does have to keep one's priorities stright.
chuck

Bottom line: I doubt it.
Depends on what your definition of is poor is...

Bottom Bottom line: I can't spell...

[Umfriend]

No worries chuck, I even had to explain this to accountants until a couple of years back, and they could not grasp it. Ahh, those were the days of good ol' accrual accounting..... But I'll save that for some other time.

[GNEP]

Oi! Shut up about accountants!

[cjolley]

Originally posted by GNEP
Oi! Shut up about accountants!

Well, at least they aren't auditors.
chuck

[GNEP]

Indeed... not that I'm either of course... erm...

[Umfriend]

Uhm sry, I meant auditors (stupid languange thing between Dutch and English). And I am neither an accountant, nor an auditor, thank ME.

[cjolley]

I'm a financial systems database designer and developer.
I know you guys better than you know yourselves.
chuck

[Fat Tone]

@chuck: hehe.

Originally posted by cjolley
...Depends on what your definition of is poor is...

For me security has always been a very high priority. Owning my home is top of the security list. Finding out that rather than having enough money to send your children to Uni, instead you will be 15k short is to me a very big deal.

I suppose that by many standards I am not poor. I will adjust my mortgage payments and tighten my belt a bit but I'm still better off than many, and for that I should be thankful. I'd be less p'd off if there wasn't so much other bad sh*t happening atm.

[Umfriend]

chuck (I can call you chuck, right?), I was a financial systems designer and developer, both application and DB. Did system, applicationa and data management as well. That was my previous career (I left as fast as I could just before the were going to get us all _really_ working on Y2K). I do know myself better than you know me. And I know your portfolio better than you do.

[GNEP]

I you've both got me on the systems side then as I just fiddle with the numbers that come out... Purely finance rather than IT here.

[Umfriend]

I'm so glad I got out of IT in time. Got in as a kid at 18, what the heck did I know. Only thing was I had to learn a lot so I missed a lot on keeping up with windows, internet and stuff. I still feel most comfortable running WP5.1 under 3.1.....

[cjolley]

Originally posted by Umfriend
...I still feel most comfortable running WP5.1 under 3.1.....

Heh, most traumatic thing that's happend in this house in the last 10 years is me converting my wife from WP5.1 to Word last year.

I got "officialy" into IT in 98. after careers in Teaching (High School Science) and Construction (concrete pump operator)

My wife worked for the federal government.

Much of our retirment setup is Defined Benifit. To hell with the stock market

chuck

PS I LOVE database design & programming. I don't realy ever want to retire.

[GNEP]

Originally posted by cjolley
Much of our retirment setup is Defined Benifit.

too right whilst it's still available I'll take all they give me

[Sasq]

Chuck, if you love db design so much, swing over this way, I have an access db to convert to sql - only 120 tables (all in Japanese) I can give it to you free