Saturday, October 14, 2006
Nervous Nian
I noticed the marquee sign on the McDonald's on Neil Street the other day read "WE HAVE THE WORLDS BEST EMPLOYEES" I couldn't help, but think no wonder American is loosing it's edge in the global market place if we're using the world's best employees to make hamburgers.
I wrote a long rambling post at lunch today, this time on a pad of paper, but I left the pad at work, so that one will have to wait till tomorrow (for those of you that have a taste for long and rambling).
Nian and I had a long talk last night on money matters. She tires to be diplomatic but it is clear she worries that I will endanger our future with profligate ways, one reason for this is I have some credit card debt that was being used to finance some stock purchases. It should be noted these were not high interest rate debts, but low interest loans that can be had from time to time. SAIC's IPO has come and gone and soon I will have a nice size dividend to pay off the credit cards and still own twice as much stock as I had a year ago. My 401K is doing well also, but all this is not enough to assure Nian we are in good shape financially, mostly because I don't have much real bank savings nor own a home with built up equity. Certainly getting the credit cards paid off will ease her mind somewhat as will getting a real house early next year. Though I guess I can't blame her for being nervous about making the leap across the sea to an unknown life of interdependence with a man that once made some very bad business decisions and spent the better part of ten years paying for them.
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BTW I initially had a slightly better picture of a hand holding credit cards, but after I posted it I realized it was a woman's hand and decided to change it for fear people might think I was implying that Nian used to many credit cards. It was much harder to find a man's hand holding credit cards -- I don't think it would be unfair to read a little sexism into this about who is generally expected to spend more.
