First of all, this is the greatest board I''ve ever seen since Al Gore invented the internet! The information that I''ve learned here is priceless! I''ve tried to follow the adage "Keep your mouth shut, you just might learn something" and it really works! Thank you to the professionals, the afficionados, and the newbies whose questions you patiently answer over and over!!!
As for my subject heading, it has a double entendre - I''m about to jump in and purchase a stone for keeps (I hope) or jump off the Coronado bridge here in SD. (BTW, the weather here really is lovely this time of year!)
The reason for the bridge reference is that despite the kudos to this board and all who make it great, the more I learn, the more I don''t know. For example, I''m looking at this stone:
http://www.goodoldgold.com/1_760ct_f_vs2_h&a.htm
If I was visting my family in Hewlett, I''d drive over to Massapequa Park and have a look, but I''m in California, and I never really liked that branch of the family, so I have to rely on numbers and pictures and techincal stuff. So after all I''ve learned here, this little beauty is "looking" pretty good to me.
But then I read all about the brilliance scope and the truth behind Hs and As and I worry . . . does that one arrow look crooked? Does the shaft look like it doesn''t quite meet the arrow head? And look at the brilliance scope - what are the implications when the brilliance seems to come from the lower left "quadrant", rather than all around the circle? Is the amount of white light which it "reflects" enough? Does this analysis mean it bounces colored light better than white light? Is that normal? Is that "good"? Bad? Does it matter?
I realize that while the women poll "How big is too big", I should be asking, "How obsessive is too much", and plan to do so with my therapist next week.
In the meantime, does everybody love this stone or not?
Btw, thanks for reading this far - as you can tell, I''ve always longed to write a column!
doubleb
As for my subject heading, it has a double entendre - I''m about to jump in and purchase a stone for keeps (I hope) or jump off the Coronado bridge here in SD. (BTW, the weather here really is lovely this time of year!)
The reason for the bridge reference is that despite the kudos to this board and all who make it great, the more I learn, the more I don''t know. For example, I''m looking at this stone:
http://www.goodoldgold.com/1_760ct_f_vs2_h&a.htm
If I was visting my family in Hewlett, I''d drive over to Massapequa Park and have a look, but I''m in California, and I never really liked that branch of the family, so I have to rely on numbers and pictures and techincal stuff. So after all I''ve learned here, this little beauty is "looking" pretty good to me.
But then I read all about the brilliance scope and the truth behind Hs and As and I worry . . . does that one arrow look crooked? Does the shaft look like it doesn''t quite meet the arrow head? And look at the brilliance scope - what are the implications when the brilliance seems to come from the lower left "quadrant", rather than all around the circle? Is the amount of white light which it "reflects" enough? Does this analysis mean it bounces colored light better than white light? Is that normal? Is that "good"? Bad? Does it matter?
I realize that while the women poll "How big is too big", I should be asking, "How obsessive is too much", and plan to do so with my therapist next week.
In the meantime, does everybody love this stone or not?
Btw, thanks for reading this far - as you can tell, I''ve always longed to write a column!
doubleb
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