buy1INTC20.24
I took advantage of ShareBuilder’s “Make a trade and get $50″ promo by just buying 1 share of Intel… even if Intel goes bankrupt tomorrow I’ll be up $25 
My TD Ameritrade account is fully functional and ready-to-go, so I’ll probably pull the trigger tomorrow. I’m not looking to get rich quick, but just have a good time and make a bit of spare money. Plus, everyone wants to be able to sit down at the table and talk about how XYZ is up eleven points but it still has a lot of headroom to rise higher, etc. 
After 6+ years of service, my computer is pretty ready for replacement, as I alluded to earlier. I put together a semi-final list of parts last night and it comes in about $950 without the video card (I’m waiting for lower-end DX10 cards before I get one of those). It’s going to be rather whiz-bang; I’m very excited 
I punctuate paragraphs with smilies a lot. I suppose that just means my paragraphs are thematic. Which all paragraphs should be.
6:13 am
Only $950? Wow. If you convert my list into US bucks, it’d be about $2000 :-/ Meh, maybe parts are cheaper over there?
10:38 am
Haha, I do that with smilies a lot too… I hope the trading goes well, and the computer restoration!
5:23 pm
Yes, parts are a lot cheaper here, plus I pay no tax on any of the purchase. VAT adds quite a kick to prices…
This isn’t by any means a top-of-the-line computer. It’s really one step removed from the top (e.g. Xeon 3060 and not 3070, DDR 800 and not DDR 1000, only 400GB hard drive instead of 500GB). But I buy things to last, so they’re all quality components that I’ll get five or six years of use out of, at least!