What have you been doing today?

Same in my house...
And in our house where I grew up...
There's a Mr Nobody in every house where there are kids...
 
Washed the car. I think it’s the second wash it’s had from new (Sept 1st). Mrs Mottie thinks it’s the first. Anyway, the car had a ceramic coating on the paintwork from new and the dirt/grime just fell off of it. Didn’t need waxing either. Even if it was its second wash, that’s not bad for a couple of months driving in the sort of weather we’ve had and the muddy car parks we go to when walking with friends - the salesman said the coating stops a lot of the dirt sticking to the paintwork and I must say I agree with that.
 
Been out on callouts most of the day, lots of money earned for my hols, last night tonight before I hand over the golden goblet to the next lucky winner. Going to Newcastle tomorrow with a few of the lads for a major pizz up. Looking for the liveliest bars we can find to do some serious drinking.
 
We met up with friends today for a walk and one of them had recently (2 weeks ago) bought a brand new Audi Q5. As we were talking, one of us noticed that she had a crease going from the window rubber to the swage line on the drivers door, in line with the door mirror. The paintwork was untouched though. She hadn’t noticed it. Looking under the mirror, there was no bottom cover on it. She was baffled how it had happened. We said it could have been like that from new but after two weeks, she would have difficulty proving it. Anyway, she’s just told us that she took a few photos of it in the showroom when she picked it up from the dealers and there in the photos you can see the crease! She's going back tomorrow to have it out with them. I still can’t work out though how the panel could get creased with no damage to the paintwork.
 
Highway Man said:
Been out on callouts most of the day, lots of money earned for my hols, last night tonight before I hand over the golden goblet to the next lucky winner. Going to Newcastle tomorrow with a few of the lads for a major pizz up. Looking for the liveliest bars we can find to do some serious drinking.
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these are very trendy in the toon at the moment - wear the right clobber
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Just got in again,, nice 4 hr double pay job, traffic lights out, 10 Minute job 1hr each way driving, book 2 hr minimum for the job. My pay packet will be enviable next month. Get in!!!
 
I've done bugger all over christmas. A neighbour brought some food round with a bit of tinsel on it, which was nice of her. She's been good since wifey left the planet.
Would normally put this on the stockmarket thread but it needs a more general read, someone else might want to play:
Mods do what you want, no complaints.

In stockmarket parlance there are some acronyms - HODL Hold On for Dear LIfe which is how you lose the farm
FOMO Fear of missing out , and then YOLO You only live once, which is another way to lose the farm.

Silver is "squeezing" on increased demand, so I YOLO'd a bit on 23rd with 50k of margin at 10:1 (the standard).
It could have collapsed, but would have been bought up; it can't go on up at the current rate forever, but I think the collapse if there is one, will be later, so if it had dropped, I'd have HODL'd on whatever was left after hitting a stop-loss, though I may have forgotten to set one.. You can use "trailing" stops, yada yada...

I just chickened out - well I let it hit a preset sell level. Bought at a tad under 70 on 23rd, and it sold at a Stop (preset sell price) 81.5, tonight. It went higher but dropped a couple of percent after. Edit - it's rising again right now.
I'll take you through the sums:
You lay down £50k, and you're borrowing 10x that at the platform's overnight rate of 0.028% - (this is a crappy platform, others are much lower %. They all get their profit somewhere)
So it was 50k x 10 = 500k borrowed at that rate = £140 a night. Other platforms might be only £50..
5 nights since 23rd, £700 cost.
Price then, went from ~70 to 81.5.
Value went from 500 to
500k x 81.5 /70 = 582k after removing the 700.

82k then for doing bugger all. Less 20% CGT = 65k. Merry xmas.
I don't need the money. I have my own health problems. I have a more or less constant chest pain. Whenever I tell a medic, they send the wagon round to woo woo me away. Right side of heart I think = not fixable.

That might seem a lot of risk, but remember all the money I trade /bet (if you want to use that word!) is winnings.
You could say use £50 or £500, it all scales. Repeat - "Stop loss" settings prevent you losing much. It's safer but boring if you sit and watch.

I offered to buy the neighbour's 3 kids a laptop each - she won't hear of it.
What can a chap do?

So you might want to watch the silver price - gold, palladium, platinum too.
SIlver is getting to be in short supply. Chips, EV's and Solar panels use a lot of it, as do future batteries. So it's not just a tulip.
Reserves ( the portion of the resource which is economically worth extracting), will increase, as Lithium's did, but - who knows how much? Someone I daresay, ask AI?


Edit I have now I set a buy stop at 77, but for less. So it'll get bought of the price drops to 77. A "stop" usually means a "go"...
 
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