Thanks for all the advice.  I just have one point of contention regarding miners.  Miners also become more expensive when btc goes up.  That's it, just wanted to make that point.

But for the most part, I agree and will probably buy some btc.  Or maybe I'll follow Wu Tang's advice and diversify my portfolio!  hmmm Could pick up a miner and like BTC2.

But really, if the btc price goes up, I win either way.  The difference with actually having the mining equipment is the btc can be accumulated over a loner period of time.  I'd argue that a miner can produce more than btc sitting in an account.

Now if I could just find a free source of electricity.