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  1. For fractionals I usually do a tad better locally but you're limited to what they have. Austin dealers are probably pretty well stocked though. Fractional mark-ups can be high, but I have beaten the system by buying from friends, split the difference between what they'd get and what you'd pay. In Texas, if you are going with Mexican gold, I'd get the first few from a dealer. I say this because down on the border they make 2 peso copies (usually 90%, or 21.6 karat) in 18 karat, 14 karat etc for weddings and whatever. I seent em on trays at La Moneda de Oro in Laredo. Side by side it's obvious which is original, and the store wasn't trying to trick anybody, but you can see how some might get mixed up out in the wild.
  2. I was waking up at 5 to eat 3-egg steak breakfasts during the steroid months. Had a pony keg of water weight in legs and balzac. Since stabilized down at 190, weigh-in after weigh-in. Until they run some more science fair experiments on me.
  3. Note to self: when having a pleasant conversation with people you just met, and you tell then you lost 40 pounds of beer gut, and they say: "How did you do that?", just say: "I stopped drinking so much beer." Do not say: "Cancer!" That is like ripping onion and sausage farts inside a minibus. They didn't have time to roll down their psychic windows.
  4. Where you at? Online can be fine. Just avoid any "scam yer grandad" places that say to call them for prices. I had good experiences with Provident Mint, Apmex (before it went crazy on prices), Gainesville coins, a couple others. By your last sentence, do you mean you want to buy multiple ounces, or fractional ounces?
  5. That's $42 per oz, ie $1.40 face value. Maybe not what you wanted to hear. Those prices mirror what I heard happening back when the Hunt Brothers cornered the market. Before my experience, just going off what old coin dealers said, people lined around the block selling everything for a fraction of melt. IIRC the price of silver went up about ten-fold, so maybe few tears were shed if they "only" made 7 or 8 times what they paid.
  6. One day the youth of Alabama will learn how to aim automatic weapons, and we will need a color redder than red.
  7. Doc said mine was normal for a man my age, although larger than most she had seen. badoom shing. I have been sent to physical therapy where my job for three weeks is to play with a giant rubber band 5 times a week until my shoulders are tired, then we will take account of everything. After one session my wife remarked that I was already swole, and her eyes followed me around the room. Her next eye doctor visit is soon.
  8. Weekend loading, driving, unloading, setting up art tent and tables, jabbering with locals, jabbering with locals again, taking down tent etc, loading, driving back to Bamalama went well with maximum burliness and well-spaced drugs. Now I go to regular Doc visit, maybe she knows what this ping-pong ball growin on my elbow is.
  9. Same strip mall, second floor guy closed down. "New" (10 years?) store is on ground floor, it's the bullion shark's friend as he monitors local prices and prides himself on beating everybody both buying and selling. Agree on Clanton WB. I eat there then recommit my life to Jesus thanks to the bombardment of Christian Rock.
  10. The #1 hoarder rule is to store your gold and silver where you can see it from your bedroom. #2 hoarder rule is to build a castle out of National Geographics.
  11. Don't forget the basics, boys. Yesterday a break in routine interrupted my breakfast. By afternoon I was a raving stroke victim. Wife got a sammich and a 10mg Hydrocortisone in me, 30 minutes later, healed.
  12. I had a student (basic English composition, so we could talk about anything) who admitted he'd thrown away a gold bracelet because it was broken. He'd already caught hell from his dad (Who throws away GOLD?) so we made it a learning experience-- showed em how karats worked, estimated weights compared to 5g nickels, taught a bunch of Juco kids what they'd get for it at the coin store in Pelham vs the pawn shop in Clanton. We estimated he'd made a $50 mistake (bracelet must have been spun air.) It was still a dumb mistake, but who hasn't made a dumb 50 dollar mistake? He was able to move on from it and I doubt he'll ever toss anything again. I knew a woman in DC with wealthy parents. Mom was crazy and would regularly dump trays of jewelry in the garbage. Dad, in theory, would fish them out and pass them on the Daughter, who may have gotten top dollar for them but I kinda doubt it. She was into leaving family jewelry buried in the dirt to "cleanse" it. If you are a landlord with witchy tenants, maybe get a metal detector. Back to the Juco, I had another student who would carry around collectible coins in this wince-inducing home-made copper chain. He monitored Kitco every day, worked his ass off in the hot sun at a plant nursery. I hope he held onto his loot until now.
  13. Nahgonnalie, kinda cool having a pile of shiny coins double in value. Be great if/when I sell it all to get $ for something else. At the same time, sorta kills the fun of collecting it at the old price.
  14. I wasn't aware that I was being videotaped! But everybody's had 8-pint vision one time or another.
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