Monaco Grand Prix 2012 - Page 12 - Lateral-g Forums

**FETorino** · #**111** 05-26-2012, 10:48 AM

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Originally Posted by GregWeld

I will tell you that you think you're doing "okay" until you come to a world class city (principality actually) like this and then you realize you're just a schlepper...

I'm okay with being a schlepper. I'm happy. Life is good.

Talked to a guy at Mozza (we ate dinner there) last night - he's wearing a shirt with a big MBZ emblem on it -- so I say "hey! so which one do have?" and he says "an S65"... ah ha I say -- nice car! Then he tells me about several Ferraris he has - and the Bently GT his wife drives and the Rolls Royce... So I slink back to my table -- and tell my wife what a prick he is.

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Originally Posted by GregWeld

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.

I'll slink back down in my chair on the porch and to tell my wife "what a prick this guy on the forum is "

Monoco sounds like an experience. Not sure I'd be down for more than a couple days of it though. Great shots.

Schlepper out

Al Moreno · #**112** 05-26-2012, 10:48 AM

Greg nice pics! thanks for posting. I think you and you camera are ready to go pro

**Sieg** · #**113** 05-26-2012, 10:48 AM

Good choice on the lens.

I'm sitting here looking at camera bodies and 2.8 lenes........

intocarss · #**114** 05-26-2012, 10:58 AM

Greg, Is this your first "live" F-1 race?

**GregWeld** · #**115** 05-26-2012, 10:59 AM

So here is THE BOAT in the harbor... The M/V Alexander.... with her crew of 58... and 39 staterooms... a 27 seat theater... a full hospital room! At a mere 400' it makes the others look ridiculous!

http://www.charterworld.com/index.ht...alexander-1598

**GregWeld** · #**116** 05-26-2012, 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by intocarss

Greg, Is this your first "live" F-1 race?

No... I used to go to the Long Beach Grand Prix in the 70's... and even accidentally ended up in the pits by helping to push Niki Lauda's 312T Ferrari up a slight hill when it stalled early in the morning coming up to pit lane. I was sitting on a curb waiting for the cars to come out... and he stalls and a couple guys on the team start yelling at me to "Poooosh".

I had a FILM camera at the time (mid and late 70's) and got some sweet shots of Emerson Fittipaldi's Copersucar... and Mario Andretti's John Player Special.. and Giles Villeneuve's Ferrari... before I ran out of film (a role of 24) and finally some gendarme tossed my sorry butt out of there!

EBMC · #**117** 05-26-2012, 11:17 AM

Im not up to speed on these things, but when does a boat become a yacht and a yacht become a ship?

**Rybar** · #**118** 05-26-2012, 11:57 AM

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Originally Posted by GregWeld

Here's a bad line vs good line series....

Bad Line!

Look at the entering angle and his front wheels and then the next turn and the amount of front wheel angle and he STILL missed the apex!

Hey Greg, you do know your telling 7 time world champion Michael Schumacher how to drive? The best F1 driver of all time

sik68 · #**119** 05-26-2012, 11:57 AM

Great stories Greg!

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Originally Posted by EBMC

Im not up to speed on these things, but when does a boat become a yacht and a yacht become a ship?

I suppose it just depends on comparison, which harbor you're pulling into

**Sieg** · #**120** 05-26-2012, 12:47 PM

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Originally Posted by GregWeld

So here is THE BOAT in the harbor... The M/V Alexander.... with her crew of 58... and 39 staterooms... a 27 seat theater... a full hospital room! At a mere 400' it makes the others look ridiculous!

http://www.charterworld.com/index.ht...alexander-1598

Starting at only 630,000 Euro per week.