Monaco Grand Prix 2012 - Lateral-g Forums

RECOVERY ROOM · #1 05-26-2012, 01:24 AM

I suddenly feel very useless in the world...OMG. We all need to pay close attention to the investing thread Thanks for sharing GW

**GregWeld** · #2 05-26-2012, 01:39 AM

Tracey -- Let me give you a little more "perspective".....

The Lady Moura @ 344' is now anchored out.... tell me which one it is....

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA..... and you think OMG! Dude... talk about feeling insignificant!

**Flash68** · #3 05-26-2012, 01:50 AM

Mary Martha Focker.

So is Gwen having a great time or she beyond ready to go home?

**GregWeld** · #4 05-26-2012, 01:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Flash68

Mary Martha Focker.

So is Gwen having a great time or she beyond ready to go home?

She's looking forward to Portofino and Cinque Terra....

This is all about GRAND PRIX.... not relaxing and walkabouts... and site seeing. The cars run about 45 minutes and take 20 or 30 minutes off... and the screaming engines (gawd how I love that sound!) fill the city! You can not just walk around.... To get out of the hotel -- we have to leave from the 7th floor... and walk uphill (it's hot and HUMID) 3 blocks or so just to get to a street to be able to walk from or cab from...

In a bit we're going to go to our other place to watch the qualifying runs... and that may take us at least an hour if we're lucky. If we could just walk - it would take us 15 minutes - but there is no way to get there due to the race track set up.

Having said all of that.... what's not to like?

**Flash68** · #5 05-26-2012, 01:59 AM

Well at least you're having fun.

I think we're the only 2 people awake right now on the whole forum.

**GregWeld** · #6 05-26-2012, 02:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Flash68

Well at least you're having fun.

I think we're the only 2 people awake right now on the whole forum.

Go cram Susie Q for a final.... er.... I mean... is Susie Q.... oh never mind.

Bucketlist2012 · #7 05-26-2012, 02:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Flash68

Well at least you're having fun.

I think we're the only 2 people awake right now on the whole forum.

No worry wart Mike is here too.. I have too much on my mind to sleep.

**Flash68** · #8 05-26-2012, 02:14 AM

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Originally Posted by GregWeld

Go cram Susie Q for a final.... er.... I mean... is Susie Q.... oh never mind.

You dirty dog... did you accidentally drink a gin and tonic again?

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Originally Posted by Bucketlist2012

No worry wart Mike is here too.. I have too much on my mind to sleep.

Oh yeah you're on the late night program too Mike. Atta boy.

Bucketlist2012 · #9 05-26-2012, 02:05 AM

OMG...

Just Incredible...

The maintinence on them must be Incredible...

And that is why I have Insomnia.. Thinking about the maintinence on the property I am about to make an offer on...

I am in the should I ? Phase.. Sure my Wife says "don't worry"...Well I worry..

So, here I sit...Worrying..

But looking at these Yacht's....I am a grain of sand in a large desert..

But if my wife wants this new crib, she can pay for the maintinence..

This daddy is not . I still need more toys..

And from the looks of your pictures.....I am way behind..

I had to tell my Wife. NO, that is NOT a cruise Liner...It is a Private Yacht.

**GregWeld** · #10 05-26-2012, 02:19 AM

Mike.....

We looked for over a year at buying a house in the Napa Valley... a second home... I started at 2MM... nothing.... and raised that to 4MM... for which you got orange formica kitchen... or so far out that I couldn't take the drive into "town" (St Helena or Yountville) for dinner....

While laying in bed at our hotel (Meadowood Country Club -- you'd love it!) I realized the true cost of 4MM invested in a second home would cost me 200K in income loss (5% that I make off that now in TAX FREE bond income)... so that is "opportunity costs" which one has to calculate to see the true costs! I would need gardeners - and housekeeping - and property taxes and the gutters need cleaning and the windows washed - and more cars to make it "easy" to come and go... and furnishings.... so figure at least another 100K per year... so the income off another 2MM....

To which I said to the Misses.... "Ya know.... we could stay here a MONTH and our room is ONLY 60K".... so if we ate out every night for the month - we might spend 100K. Sounds ridiculous - until you compare the "loss" of ownership costs to just traveling and not owning or worrying about diddly squat. We're traveling.... I gave her a yearly budget (HA!) and we'll just blow that messing about rather than having a second house we'd rarely use since we're traveling anyway.