What a fantastic community; all these guys jumping in to help

My advice/opinion would be to buy btc mainly; its been sideways for a while it's about time to have a good sustained rally

but diversification is best; so maybe use 10k to buy some mining equipment from one of the best producers, avalon or asicminer, and the rest just purchase btc

oh and this should be in the 'mining support' section:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=40.0