Thinking about starting over. Were is a good place?

You are right. I sure do not. I have worked nights so long. Driven truck for a bit. 15 min naps do help alot.

Tomarrow I will sleep from noon till 4pm. That is plenty of rest. I will get me 2 or 3 hours this am as well. The weekends are were I catch up on my sleep.

Wow! with your schedule I would surely DIE I almost did not survive basic training in the army I NEED my 8 hours min prefer 9. I like to sleep mor ein the winter less in the summer it is the natural way. Befor eelctristy a recent phenomena people slept way mor eon the average then they do now, I think that lights at night are responsible for a lot of illness and a number of studies back that statement up I would recommend the book "Lights out" I will look up the authors name later it was a real eye opener for me. I hope your new venture is a success. If your hard work is any indication of it it's future I would say it will go far.

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I used to be one of those sleepers that 10 at night till 6 am was my sleep time.

Once I went to OTR truck driving. I got a real education on sleep. I would work days ONE DAY then nights the next. A 48 hour day was not uncommen. Then I got some sleep.

The last job I had truck driving and home everyday. GAVE ME LESS sleep then when I was otr. Its hard to explain and can take up pages. I am sure others here know how nice it is to have a sleeper truck to crash to. Hearing it would take 3 hours to get unloaded. Ment 3 hours of sleep. With no sleeper. I get to sit in a chair and keep my self active.

My wife worked the store for 15 hours today. She came home for 30 mins and took a 15 min nap.

We were chatting tonight. She misses truck driving. We ran team. She loves the 15 min power nap.

I read a book by dale carnegie I think it was that described ho wyou could get the same benifits from 4 hours and afew short naps in the day but I am not convinced. But hey if it is wrth it to you and makes you happy then go for it. I guess everyone is diffrent I am sure some can get by on less sleep than others. your worm farm sounds really cool, I was thinking of raising some under rabbits when I get home.

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Its not a worm farm. Just this little thing I got off e bay. A worm factory. It was cheap and a cool way for us to start. I have had interst in worms for a bit.

Its only 16"x16"x48" with all levels in place. We have 5 levels and are only on two now.

Its not a worm farm. It was a way to start easy and give the wife a new thing.I have a country girl for a wife. Missing front teeth and everything. New cars do not interst her. Country stuff dose. My wife drives the tractor as a vehical. She has two cars. I am pretty sure neither has been started in months.

They call it the worm factory. So far I like it. I just kinda bought it and didn't get all into it. I figured worms. I mean what they live in my garden. Now it is a live stock item that has to be raised and managed. I was thinking we could get some containers and sell them at the store. They have goten bigger and are fishing size now. Its only been like a week since we have had this thing.

Please drop us a line when you get where ever it is that you think you thought you were thinking about going to think things through

Reading that is about how it feals. I have options. I am lucky. Some do not.

I think stress and the last job I had were eatting at me.

I would love to move away and start over. Just really. Its would be hard. I have built alot here and it is comming together fine. Just not being able to enjoy it.

Not having to work right now is nice. BUT WE HAVE NO HEALTH INSURANCE. To me that is scary stuff. The wife has made me very proud of her. She has been opening and even worked till close tonight. Thats was a 16 hour shift.

I kept the store open till 11pm tonight. I had three dedicated circuts to run. I figured if I have to be there. May as well stay open. I am liking this. I enjoy it.

Health inspector comes by in the am tomarrow. Touched up some paint and ran the new lines for the foutain soda and coffee bar. Got a good vendor comming in for coffee on friday. We have Bunn coffee maker now that works great, but it is a pour over. The new will be inline.

The vendor didn't like our free 8oz coffee. He said get rid of it. I told him why? I buy product a min amount a month from him. No reason for him to care what we sell it for. The free coffee dose go well, they also buy other stuff and eat here. Being a poor area. We do get some free takers of just a cup of coffee. Yet they sit around and chat and such. Cost me 8 bucks a day with coffee, energy, labor and cups to offer that.

I had 4 or 5 16-21+ boys hanging around today for about 5 hours. They are good kids. They played checkers, played darts and lended a hand here and there. They also spent 10 bucks in pennies! Not to mention they purchased all the overges off the roller grill.

We have three dart boards in the back. They are these jobbers you get from Wal Mart that are electronic and 1 steel tip board. The kids like them. They can come hang out. Drink a pop and just be here. They do not hurt anything and there is nothing else to do. They also spend some money.

We are here for the community. With out the community support we will not be here.

Today was not as busy as I thought it would be. We did do ok for a new place. Today was totally diff then yesterday when the kids were out of school.

Lots of grocery sales today. Yester day lots of candy sales. Bread and milk started moving well.

One lady came in on here way to Trenton to buy milk. She left her home to go there and get it. Her husband called and reminded her. THE STORE IS OPEN.

She stopped in and told us this. She didn't even think about it. Our milk is 3 bucks a gallon. Not the cheapest. Trenton 3 miles away is 15 cents less. Really no mark up on milk. It cost more to cool and keep it then we will ever make on it. Yet, she seen our cigs are cheaper then anywere around here. She also ahhed at the 1 dollar wonder bread. A little over 15 bucks latter she was on her way.

It was a wake up call to me and the wife. Many folks know we are here. They are just so used to having to run over to a diff town for a needed item.

I even bought chip dip today on my running around. Hell I have chip dip we can buy from ourselves!

The pain in the ars kids that live accross from me are turning out to be good kids.

They are into this BMX thing now and pot. Their folks have money, BUT these kids work. They also buy stuff you wouldn't think they would. We sold just to these 3 kids 12- 16 oz choc and white milk in the last 2 days. They do not drink soda.

They go get high and come pastery shopping. We offer in my opinion the best donuts and muffins around. Woods bakery donuts out of Ofallon.

One request they made was for a bike rack to park their bikes at. There are I would say 10+ of this crew. I told them I would get one. They offered to make their own. I may just take them up on that deal.

They made some request yeasterday. They were supprised to see them (some of them) there today after school.

The gravy I didn't think would go over to well. Was a hit today. It was packaged powered pepper stuff with fresh ground pork that we had butchered. It is not a thing we will keep doing. WAY to much work.

I got in 48 #10 cans today. That was the first stuff we used that the folks liked.

This is a learning process for the wife and I. My mother loves it. She is a busy body as are many around here. The chance to hang out and not be in a Tavern is going over pretty well.

This broke my heart.

One of my handy men and I could not get into this very tight place to pull the conduit and wire for the 3 power lines we have to run.

I called on a kid that is small. I am small, but could not do it. I have a spider problem and do not like very tight places. This 15 year old kid said he would do it just to help me out. It took him a bit to get there.

He did the job. I asked him what I owed him. His reply. ANYTHING MY FAMILY CAN EAT I do not need money. WE ARE VERY HUNGRY.

His time was only about 45 mins of nasty work. I gave him 20 bucks and the handy man gave him 10. I then told him to go get some store stock. He had no idea what he needed. He wanted spegetti for 7. The wife set him up with the BEST not the cheapest stuff we had for that meal. A 12 pack of CHEAP pop and 5 bucks store tab for him self (he will be by for breakfast before school. He is the only one in school in that family).

That just broke my heart. He is a great kid. School fills his life. He has made a vow to get the high school education NO ONE in his family has.

2 hours and we do it again. I get to work alot more hours today. The wife needs me to fill in for her for 6 hours so she can come home and do some house work and take a nap. Hired help comes in at 11am to help me.

I am liking things alot more right now. I am thinking it was my trying to keep a job that I hated that caused half the problem.

Gravy was a hit agin today. Sold out. Fresh gravy made from powder with fresh farm raised gound pork for meat.

Tomarrow canned sausage and gravy. Then we will do the fresh gound pork Gravy for Sat morning.

I CAN NOT wait to see what this weekend will be like.

We are running in the red. On daily costs. The total investment keeps us down for a long time. My security system that is on a PLane right now was 6200 bucks. 6 cameras with panick buttons, much much more and GREAT service.

This monitoring service with chime in every so often to ask the cleark (they address the cleak by name) name how are ya doing? You have to answer. They will ask how is this or that selling selling. You answer back (changes daily). They will address the cleark one more time. The cleark then says thanks so and so we are fine. The off site monitoring service will even address regular customers. Like how is it going so and so. (Direct monitoring is spoken with 3 times a week for customer updates).

If the cleak gives the wrong name. COPS ARE ROLLING.

The lighted off button when pushed comes in with "system disarmed" The cops are rolling.

This is a very complex system with off site video recording and 24 hour monitoring fr video. We will also have on site video recording with 3 months of real time storage.

Panick buttons placed. Money taker buttons placed, even a tobacco switch. Screw with my tobacco and see what happens. Every pack is coded to a computer system. When a pack of cigs is sold. It will be scanned and then gone. If the wrong pack is sold. The cleark is notified with a off site agent asking them what is going on.

And of course you have the money switch. That give me all the money out of your register protector. I liked that. We get a new register that reads bar codes with a hand held scanner and is tied real time to the monitoring service.

Over all this is a great sytem. I have not let out anything not known out. Just the simple stuff. There is MUCH more. The donut guy will even have a time coded key. (the donut vendor turned us onto these folks).

The computer system that will manage this is both on side and off site.

Holds 340g. Every key that hits any lock is coded and time stamped with key mark made with user.

They can take the total security system and are still on camera and on tape with 3 months of real time coverage. I got a hell of a deal on this system.

With all the folks hanging around we need this.

Gravy was a hit agin today. Sold out. Fresh gravy made from powder with fresh farm raised gound pork for meat.

Tomarrow canned sausage and gravy. Then we will do the fresh gound pork Gravy for Sat morning.

I CAN NOT wait to see what this weekend will be like.

We are running in the red. On daily costs. The total investment keeps us down for a long time. My security system that is on a PLane right now was 6200 bucks. 6 cameras with panick buttons, much much more and GREAT service.

This monitoring service with chime in every so often to ask the cleark (they address the cleak by name) name how are ya doing? You have to answer. They will ask how is this or that selling selling. You answer back (changes daily). They will address the cleark one more time. The cleark then says thanks so and so we are fine. The off site monitoring service will even address regular customers. Like how is it going so and so. (Direct monitoring is spoken with 3 times a week for customer updates).

If the cleak gives the wrong name. COPS ARE ROLLING.

The lighted off button when pushed comes in with "system disarmed" The cops are rolling.

This is a very complex system with off site video recording and 24 hour monitoring fr video. We will also have on site video recording with 3 months of real time storage.

Panick buttons placed. Money taker buttons placed, even a tobacco switch. Screw with my tobacco and see what happens. Every pack is coded to a computer system. When a pack of cigs is sold. It will be scanned and then gone. If the wrong pack is sold. The cleark is notified with a off site agent asking them what is going on.

And of course you have the money switch. That give me all the money out of your register protector. I liked that. We get a new register that reads bar codes with a hand held scanner and is tied real time to the monitoring service.

Over all this is a great sytem. I have not let out anything not known out. Just the simple stuff. There is MUCH more. The donut guy will even have a time coded key. (the donut vendor turned us onto these folks).

The computer system that will manage this is both on side and off site.

Holds 340g. Every key that hits any lock is coded and time stamped with key mark made with user.

They can take the total security system and are still on camera and on tape with 3 months of real time coverage. I got a hell of a deal on this system.

With all the folks hanging around we need this.

Florida. That is were we are going. The Tampa area. On the coast.

We purchased a 41 foot Hatteras. Should be fine till we can upgrade to a larger boat. We ahve to get Coast guard certifications and the like for better insurance rates.

We like this area. We have spent alot of time here in the last year.

THE wife found a few houses she likes, I just want to wait as I see housing cost comming way down. Till the fires came on. I still think 1-2 years from now we will get a real steal. Once a dem is in office property rates will drop. We will pay cash so no need for a high interest loan as the dems always bring with them.

Heavenly day. A must read for everyone on the board.

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It's been my experience that those who have the $$$ seldom talk about it.

If you Guys will check we have been over this road before with daytrader

big rockpile

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If I need a Friend
I go to the Rock!

1 year has passed between post #49 and Post # 50...

Let's all let it die...again...

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(A REAL scientist)

Whew, my head is spinning!

I hope you are well daytrader.

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Amanda

"Live and let Live!!!"

"Courage is being scared to death--and saddling up anyway" John Wayne

daytrader, to answer your original question, "Where would be a good place?", I'll tell a story.

In a small town I know about, a woman walked one day into the local real estate office.

"We're thinking of moving here," she told the agent. "What are the people like?"

The agent replied, "Well, what are the people like where you came from?"

"Oh," she said, frowning, "they are mean-spirited, materialistic, pushy and conceited. Not very generous or friendly. We'll be glad to leave that place as soon as we can."

"I'm sorry," the agent said, "but I'm afraid you'll find the folks here are like that, too."

The woman left, disappointed.

Later, another woman customer walked in.

"We're thinking of moving here," she said. "Can you tell me what folks are like?"

The agent replied, "What are the people like where you came from?"

She smiled, and said, "They are wonderful! Helpful, cheery, great, friendly people. We would never leave the place, except my husband has been transferred. We will be leaving behind so many good friends and fond memories, and we are worried that we won't be abe to find a place that is as welcoming and great as the place we now must leave."

"Don't worry," the agent said, "you'll find that the folks here are like that, too."

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Sweetpea Farms
"To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing." -- Robert Gates

Great story......Thumbs up!

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"They laughed, because he was different"

"He laughed, because they were all the same"

Since you have quit your job you should have more time to do some reading. With your expertise in trading and making money you seem to not have learned how to preserve what you have and like to pay taxes. I strongly suggest your acquaint yourself with the workings of a 1031 exchange if you are considering a move and lifestyle change. You can get a panphlet on 1031 ins and outs from Orexco.

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If they can do it,
you know you can!

But...but...

What about the GRAVY????