WTF-Beta

@kluurs

Ken- always with a snappy comebacks. how did he come up with that in only two months?

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@Axtremus

Facing which way?

if it’s on TikTok, it must be true!

at least it’s under $180,000.

I saw this over on Facebook and I love it!

and I will miss adagioM when she’s deported…

The difficult part of the contingency planning for me is not the finances and trust. All three kids are capable and willing to handle things on that front if I need them.

What I need a contingency plan for is if something comes up where it’s difficult to live by myself, even for a period of time. I live alone ,with my children thousands of miles away, in a neighborhood where I don’t know anyone. I’m at an age where I’m constantly reminded of this. three of my closest friends have had an event in the last year that impaired their independence. The one with a daughter living next-door to her has quite a bit of time to figure out what she wants to do next. the other two had to scramble to find someplace more workable to live in a very short timeframe.

So I figure the next move I make,whenever it is , is to some form of more communal living. I’d like to put that off as long as possible, but if you shop potential spots the nice ones have considerable waiting lists.

since the only thing I use my old non-Windows 11 eligible computer for to do my taxes every year, I was planning on splurging on the $30 one year extension for support rather than buying a new computer. when I went into the process to buy the one-year extension, it turns out because one time in the last 7 or 8 years I played around with backing up my computer to the cloud, they said I was eligible for the one-year extension for free. (I don’t use their automatic back up. I think I literally tried it for one day.)

so I’m good for one more year. 30 bucks saved!

I just updated all my trust stuff last year so I’m just in a cycle of having to updated every couple years now. in the past I’ve actually had friends without kids name me as their successor trustee because I’m experienced in tax and investments and am/was intermittently honest. As I got near retirement age, I had them all move to professional trustees as the odds of me being around for many decades decreased.

generally, for finding a trustee they liked, I suggested they start with wherever they held most of their investments. I generally prefer the trust departments at the investment companies over the banks, (no problems with honesty or ethics with the banks, just continuity questions of who the hell they will actually be dealing with by the time they’re needed.) At least one friend has been very happy with the trust department at Fidelity, who works closely with their investment advisor.

@kluurs

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I don’t know what I would do if I met a woman wearing this..

So, she’s single?

I’ve been skipping breakfast for a bit more than 10 years now and it suits me pretty well. (I dislike when people call it. Intermittent fasting. I am not fasting, I just eat at different times.)

The only exception is when I’m traveling for work and the hotel has a free breakfast buffet. all bets are off then….

I hope the fact that I still look 28 years old doesn’t prevent me from being eligible.

my whole family lives in French these days except for me. Fortunately, they seem to be OK making these same sorts of jokes about themselves. Bunch of cheese-eating surrender monkeys…

this guy lost credibility with me when he used the phrase,” hard-working French people”.

Deer

hokey

catch-up

I was just talking about this to a friend of mine from high school yesterday. My first exposure to Lehrer was a 78 rpm record that my Dad bought in the 1950s of his first songs. When the Vatican rag came out, the sheet music wasn’t readily available so it was one of the first pieces my brother Bruce learned to play by ear. For the wild and crazy crowd we hung around with at the Methodist youth fellowship, This was a big hit..

@wtg

I read the first line of your post as “IKEA assessment”. I presumed the story was gonna say that it was going to be hard to put back together….