Meetings and Other Travels
September 6, 2010 in Blogs
Today’s temporal anomalies article at the Examiner looks at the first time the time traveler goes to the meadow to meet his future bride–which is not the first time he arrives at it. That is complicated, which is why it gets its own article, The Time Traveler’s Wife part 9: the second first meeting.
In other news, I’m getting frantic about the fact that we’re supposed to have a stockholders meeting this month and somehow the address list of our stockholders was never transferred from last year’s secretary to our present board, so we can’t contact them to let them know. The retired secretary has promised to send it, but it has not yet arrived, and I’m not certain how I might rebuild the list if it doesn’t come soon. That’s apart from all the other obstacles that must be overcome.
Then as bad icing on a dry cake I was just asked (in a manner that would not brook refusal) to make a “quick” trip to a store an hour away for something that someone promised someone else she would buy for her. That means I lose most of the rest of tonight, but I’m not on top of tonight anyway, so I might as well sacrifice it.
We’ll see whether tomorrow goes better.
–M. J. Young
JohnA1nut said on September 7, 2010
How does one go about buying Valdron stock?
M. J. Young said on September 7, 2010
You can buy it directly from the corporation, or from a Valdron stockholder who wants to sell it.
To get it from the corporation, I would write to the treasurer, but I hesitate to post his e-mail address in a public forum so write to me and I’ll get it for you. Last I heard, it was going for $20 per share from the company, and there was both common (voting) and preferred (non-voting but with certain financial protections) stock.
To buy it from another stockholder, you would have to find someone who has it and wants to sell it. I suspect that there are Valdron stockholders who would be pleased to be offered money for their stock, but I also suspect that most of them are people with whom we have lost contact–we get a fair amount of letters returned for no forwarding address and haven’t been able to track down those stockholders for a few years now. If you found someone and agreed on a price, they would have to endorse their stock certificate and it would have to be sent to the company (address on the web site) so a new certificate can be issued and the change of ownership registered on the company books. The owner as listed on the books is what matters; the stock certificate is only proof that the holder ought to be so listed. If the buyer is purchasing less than the total amount of stock represented by the certificate, the endorsement should indicate what amount is being transferred and what amount being retained, and separate certificates will be issued.
That’s more than I know, sort of.
–M. J. Young