Gunny Walker

  It's really frustrating working days for these four weeks of training. I can't watch the stock market because I'm in training all day. I've actually lost a couple of hundred dollars in the market. I can't watch the market when it's open. I get home and find out that I should have made a trade. Then I have to wait until the next day to make a trade. I have to do it on autopilot. I can't watch it go down and that makes me very nervous. It also means that I am operating a couple of days behind the norm. I understand that when you play the stock market, you should expect to lose some money, but when you do, situations like this make it much worse.
  Of course, there's also the fact of the house. As you know faithful reader, I bought a house at the tax auction. Of course, I have to give the previous owner a year to pay me my money back plus interest. My year ended February 24th. So what did I do? I promptly went to see my lawyer at his earliest convenience. I called him Friday the 25th and set up an appointment for Tuesday, March 1st. Of course, we sat and talked about what the process was like. Seems that I should be able to sell this place by the next auction in June.
  During the meeting, he gets up to look to for the forms and it turn out that he doesn't have any. He makes a call to get the forms and they said that they were going to mail them to him. That means that the forms didn't arrive until March 7th, exact same day that I started the new job. So, I told him that I guess I'll see him about the middle of April.
  The previous owners get to stay for another month while I get to watch my investment sit there instead of working at it.