From: "Milton Aupperle" <milton@outcastsoft.com>
Date: November 23, 2006 10:46:04 AM MST
To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: new firewire Italian camera
Hi Folks;
I have to apologize for letting this "discussion" between David and I
get out of hand and should have either taken it private or snuffed it
right at the start, rather than inflict it on the list.
November has been a very bad month bad for me on several fronts. The
Conservative government waved their "magical fairness" economic wand
and made about 40 billion dollars of income trust investments
disappear on November 1st. So my retirement equity took a 32%
reduction in value overnight, which is going to take me 10 to 15 years
to replace. To make matters worse, I'm also losing the high yields
that income trusts provided, which cuts my monthly dividend income to
1/3 of it's value. So not only have they slashed my equity, they've
severely hampered my ability to replace what I lost. Had this not
transpired, I was planning on moving back to Saskatchewan within next
year to be close to my elderly parents who need some physical support
help. Neither of them are well and I do not want them going into some
underfunded government home to live out their remaining years, as I
can help out so they can stay in their own home as long as possible.
That isn't going to happen now and I'm mad as hell about it.
So I've been under a lot of stress and will have to make some very
hard decisions within the next two months about what I'm going to do.
I any case, sorry for the interruptions and we get can get back to
discussing Mac Astronomy topics.
Milton Aupperle