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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Apr 28, 2024 0:00:44 GMT -5
I had an Italian cooking class this morning. OMG! It was fabulous! The chef gave us his tips on making mushroom risotto that is out of this world. He used a ThermoMix, now I’m trying to figure out how to justify both the price and the kitchen real estate for one of these. TD had a cow at the VitaMix price, he might quite possibly have an elephant about this!
We also got a tour of the kitchen galley. Their dishwasher takes one minute, and it does everything. Why does mine take 2 hours?
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Apr 27, 2024 4:18:43 GMT -5
Listening to a drum serenade as we are getting ready to leave Sapporo and drinking some bubbly. Damn, these kids are freaking good!
Today was a good day, went to a historical outside museum, then another shrine. Yeah…..shrine. TD and I bailed when we saw the long line of food booths at a local fair and went to try some local food. He had a huge sausage on a stick with hot mustard, I had what was the equivalent of a hand sized potsticker. So much good smelling food, but we had to motor back to catch the bus. Pity. I told the guide that today’s shrine is probably the 30th we have seen on this trip. I think she understood!
We had to do another face to face with immigration, and one idiot was called up as he hadn’t gone by the time he was to have gone.
I sent TD out with the last of our yen to unload it. We are coming home with yen.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Apr 26, 2024 6:22:59 GMT -5
This is what it contains…..essentially IcyHot with aspirin. Lidocaine — Topical Anesthetic Menthol — Topical Analgesic Capsaicin — Topical Analgesic Methyl Salicylate — Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug (NSAID) Looks like it should be available OTC. I just Googled it and admit I didn’t spend a lot of time on it, but it doesn’t seem to be available OTC. The website for LidoPro has a link to find a provider to try to get it. Drugs dot com says the price starts at $461 for 92 grams. I’m not saying that anybody should try to figure out how to get some. I am just sharing my experiences with it (it did help with my shoulder), and what someone who had used IcyHot before said about it. Since it worked so well for me, I looked into how I could get some more after I stopped going to that Doctor, and thought it was odd that (at that time) you could only get it the way I did. If you think it’s basically the same as IcyHot and IcyHot works just as well, that’s great. It looks like it has been discontinued.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Apr 25, 2024 20:07:49 GMT -5
IcyHot is magical. glad you found more. Several years ago, I aggravated my wonky shoulder doing a normal part of my job at work. I went to an orthopedist on workman’s comp. He gave me a cream that was awesome. I had several large tubes of it. After I stopped seeing him, I Googled it and was shocked to learn that you can’t get a prescription for it, it was only available through an orthopedist on workman’s comp claims. I’d never heard of such. I had a coworker that was a runner and had issues with her knees. I gave her some of the cream and she said it worked miracles for her knees. She’d used IcyHot before, but said the cream I gave her worked a lot better for her. A year or so later she asked me “do you have any more of that creamy crack?” I was like WHAT?! Then she told me she meant the cream for her knees lol. I guess all I heard was “crack” and was looking at her crazy. I had to laugh at myself because of the way I reacted. I just went to see what the name of it is before I hit “Post”, it’s LidoPro. Idk if it is more easily obtained now. I have part of one tube left. Even though it’s old as hell, Mister has used it on his knees as recently as a couple of weeks ago and it has helped when nothing else he tried worked. This is what it contains…..essentially IcyHot with aspirin. Lidocaine — Topical Anesthetic Menthol — Topical Analgesic Capsaicin — Topical Analgesic Methyl Salicylate — Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug (NSAID) Looks like it should be available OTC.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Apr 25, 2024 18:12:40 GMT -5
If you and your kids went to college prior to about mid 1990s, the state government supplemented the bulk of your college education. After then, states decreased their contribution to state supported schools and required that students (and their parents) shoulder a heftier burden. I am talking a difference from being 80% state supported to being 20% supported. So what this boils down to is you and likely your kids received educations at the taxpayer expense, but it’s not ok to help those who happened to be born later……when schools expected a much greater student/parent contribution because schools received less from the state taxes. You think that’s fair? That reminded me of this graphic. Anyone saying I did it in the 80's so you should be able to do the same in the 2020's is delusional.
Yep. I have watched what states have contributed to state institutions since I started working at them in 1986 when I started working within the state system. This is an interesting graphic that shows this.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Apr 24, 2024 20:46:26 GMT -5
We lost internet last night. Not sure what happened, but it’s up and working now.
Right now, we are passing Fukushima on our port side. You can see the nuclear reactor from the ship. It is quite bouncy out right now, first of this trip. I tried to get a pedicure today, but it’s too rough out so I am waitlisted until the seas get smoother.
We get into Sapporo tonight around 6. There is a Giesha dinner and show planned, but we aren’t going. BTDT.
Tomorrow we have a short day, so may go looking again.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Apr 24, 2024 20:37:21 GMT -5
Has anyone had success with a supplement for stiff joints? Did not find them helpful at all. Tried most of them on the market.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Apr 24, 2024 20:35:44 GMT -5
Magnesium seems to be the latest trend - reportedly helping with a vast array of health and wellness problems. It always makes me skeptical when I see something with such promises - but also makes me curious and want to try it. I take D3 and Omega3. Omega seems like another one that was the cure-all for awhile. But every time I go off it, my depression seems to ramp up, so I keep returning to it. Magnesium (strangely, NOT potassium like from bananas) was instrumental in getting rid of the severe muscle cramps I got following my surgery. There was a time that they were so severe that I thought I’d lose my mind (did you know your abs can cramp like a Charley horse?). I take nothing. TD takes melatonin and Vit D for osteopenia.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Apr 24, 2024 20:25:14 GMT -5
I was really privileged. Back when I went to the U of A, tuition was only $1100 per year. My parents saved up for it and paid my tuition in full. An apartment off campus was $365 per month, which I shared with my sister. I worked part time for the university for minimum wage ($4.25 per hour) and was able to graduate with no debt and some savings. It gave me a great start, and I was able to buy my first house six years later. Currently tuition is $13,200 per year, so an increase of 12x. Minimum wage is $14.35 per hour, so an increase of only 3x. I imagine it's even worse in states that didn't index their minimum wage to inflation. I recently went back to check what my undergrad tuition now runs. In the years 1977-1981, my tuition ran about $428/semester (that’s the number that sticks in my brain). These days, it’s around $4600/semester. since I lived at home and commuted, I got my BS for about $4000 (and that includes gas and books). My first job out of college included tuition at Harvard, so I started taking graduate classes immediately. I thought it was strange that the graduate classes I took at Harvard were essentially repeats of my last 2 years of undergrad at SUNY. I changed jobs, and m6 new job had employer paid tuition at Northeastern. Those graduate classes were much more challenging. Between Harvard and Northeastern, that was about 50% of my MS which I finished up at the University of TX (on my dime).
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Apr 24, 2024 20:14:15 GMT -5
I worked at places with a tuition reimbursement benefit. I worked full-time and took college courses part-time. Do employers still offer that benefit? Edited: I was in my 30s when I finally got my college degree. Not only did I have a college degree but I also had work experience. Yes, or at least they did 10 years ago. I received a good chunk of my MS and 100% of my PhD classes via employer paid tuition. However, taking 2 classes/semester it is really a long haul to get through an undergraduate curriculum. Graduate degrees do not require near as many credit hours.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Apr 24, 2024 20:08:58 GMT -5
Illinois has a senior citizen homestead exemption for anyone 65 or older who files the necessary paperwork. It has to be filed each year to ensure the property is still occupied by the senior owner. Illinois also has a property tax deferral for people over 65 and is based on income. The deferral is in the form of a lien that has to be paid off when the property is sold or ceases to be owner occupied. I had 3 kids in public schools. Public schools were funded with a combination of state and local taxes. In any given year, looking at my property tax bill, the amount going to the local school district covered 1 child's local tax cost in excess of what the state paid. The other two basically got a free ride. I do want an educated populace so even in retirement I am more than happy to pay for public schools. I also have no problem with student debt relief to a certain point. Having so much of an individual's income go to pay off student loans is a damper on our economy. Much of the money not spent on student debt would be spent elsewhere, stimulating our economy, keeping businesses profitable and keeping people employed. At the very least, the interest rates should be low so people can actually pay it off as scheduled. The portion of my taxes that is going for student debt relief is small. I have no problem when I retire with paying school taxes. I do have a problem with student debt forgiveness. Me, husband, and both kids went to college. I know for my husband and I there was no helping parents and we did it ourselves our kids we did help but so did they and there was still student loans that we paid off. We didn't take vacations we didn't buy new cars we worked a lot of hours and paid everything off first we didn't stand around crying about the debt. If you and your kids went to college prior to about mid 1990s, the state government supplemented the bulk of your college education. After then, states decreased their contribution to state supported schools and required that students (and their parents) shoulder a heftier burden. I am talking a difference from being 80% state supported to being 20% supported. So what this boils down to is you and likely your kids received educations at the taxpayer expense, but it’s not ok to help those who happened to be born later……when schools expected a much greater student/parent contribution because schools received less from the state taxes. You think that’s fair?
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Apr 24, 2024 18:52:17 GMT -5
Well, we made it back to the ship and beat all aboard time by less than an hour. the cruise I just got back from had a lot of first-time cruisers on it. us seasoned veterans had a watch party on the back deck, for the runners. We did this too, from our balcony since it overlooked the cruise terminal. Tokyo has what is essentially like a plane jetway to ships. There were quite a few runners down the jetway…..you could see them hoofing it. Missing the ship wouldn’t be horrible, we just would have to get to Sapporo. Now, it would be ugly if we missed the ship in Sapporo, as the next stop is Alaska. We had passports and credit cards. I just wouldn’t want to be known as ‘those people’!
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Apr 24, 2024 3:39:35 GMT -5
Well, we made it back to the ship and beat all aboard time by less than an hour. Courtesy of giramomma, I did manage to hit one of those yarn stores she oh so kindly /s linked for me. It was closer than I’d like. The store I went to had really good reviews, but was waaaay off the beaten track. After conveying to the Tokyo information desk where I wanted to go, and for what (which wound up being another story in itself), I finally found out I needed to take the stutter to the train to the subway….then walk 45 min in the rain. Yeah, not gonna do that. So we took a taxi. This yarn store was essentially in an alley. I don’t know how the taxi found it, but he did. He dropped us off, and TD stuck around long enough find out if there was a camera store nearby. There was, a 10 min walk. So he was going to go to the camera store and meet me back at the yarn store. This was at 2:30. I buy yarn for one project. I find more yarn for another one. This was local yarn, made here (even though I did notice they had US yarns there). I topped off my yarn. I picked up a second size 4, 40” needle. I waited. 3:30 passed, then 4. I have no data on my phone, so asked if the store had a signal I could use. They did, so gave it to me. I got a message around 3 that the first store was a bust, he was going to go to a second and would be back around 3:45. At 4:15, I was trying to figure out what I would do when he showed up at 4:30. Had to snag a taxi back. We got back with about 30 min to spare. Unlike Seattle rush hour traffic, Tokyo rush hour traffic actually moves. I am now nearly $300 poorer. When TD asked me how much damage I did, I said around $200, but need to check my bank to see what I was billed at. He said he’d be pissed if I spent $5 for yarn after all this. He did get his camera battery too. Sea day tomorrow. I have an Italian cooking class scheduled.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Apr 24, 2024 3:17:45 GMT -5
Gwen and I were having a conversation about math in school yesterday. She struggles with it like I do. I told her I damn near failed math pretty much through my entire education. As long as it was a C I was happy. Statistics was the first math class I did well in and a huge part of that is because I had context for it since statistics are a huge part of my job. I told her 99.9% of the math you are doing in class you won't use unless you choose a profession that does. And even if you DO math in the real world is so much different than school. I have Excel and other tools to help me do my math. I am not expected to do it all by hand without a calculator from memory. I use the same math all day every day so it is reinforced I don't hop from one random math subject to the next to check off boxes for the federal education system. I do not get in trouble for "cheating" by asking a coworker for help. Collaboration is highly encouraged you are not forced to only look at your own work. Being accurate is super important so a fresh set of eyes is helpful. I can do my math how I want. When I do dilutions I draw the little test tubes with the arrows going into them you see in textbooks because it helps keep me on track to have a visual. You're not allowed to do that in class if that is not how the teacher/system wants you to do it. In the real world they don't care.I will never be a math wizard but I am competent in what I need to for my job. I told her stop worrying about getting a high grade in math and just pass the class. I don't care what grade she gets. I was able to get into college just fine with my shitty math class grades because the rest of my grades made up for it. I get her struggles. Math classes in the current education system are just NOT set up for people wired like us and never will be. All we can do is push through and do our best. I told her I can promise things will get better once she is in the real world. She is not stupid, it's she's being expected to fit herself into a round hole and not all of us can accomplish that. I did battle in one of the engineering classes I took when I was looking at doing CAD engineering. The exercise was shifting from one set of units to another. Easy peasy….i did this for 35 years, I freaking taught it to the students I taught. I got it ALL WRONG. Not the answer, but how I did it. When I was teaching students, I discovered it was easier if you broke the equation into pieces. So rather than one long assed equation, you had 3 smaller ones that tracked your direction. The secondary advantage is that it was easier to backtrack if you screwed up. So since I needed to show how I got where I needed at work, the first time I wrote it all out. I taught it to students because they needed it broken down to not just give a number, but understand what that number means. When I got my work back, I went to battle. The instructor said to me ‘you’d be laughed out of engineering for doing it that way’. Ummmm, my husband works in engineering, and as long as you are understanding the process, no one gives a shit as to how you get the number…..as long as it’s correct. This instructor was so hell-bent in that this is the only way that I just gave up. I tried explaining my logic, but it was his way only. It’s too bad….otherwise, he was a pretty good instructor.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Apr 23, 2024 3:32:13 GMT -5
Back from day 2 in Tokyo. My feet hurt! My hips are unhappy and I missed my dose of caffeine this morning because we woke up 15 min before the tour left! TBH, I am Templed, Shrined and Buddhaed out.
Today was turnover day, a decent sized chunk of the ship got off and replacements arrived for the last leg from Tokyo to Vancouver.
Tomorrow we have an included tour, but I am going to try to convince TD to blow it off and go with me to that yarn shop. There is a mall nearby, and he needs to find replacement batteries for his camera, he washed 3 of his. I’m sure he wants to get this done so he can take pics of the wildlife in Alaska with his good camera. The ship all aboard time is 6 tomorrow, so we should be able to do this.
I have been having some pretty severe muscle cramps in my hips. Not sure why. I brought muscle relaxant with me, but it knocks me out pretty well. I’m wondering if I dose up tonight if the residual effects will help tomorrow.
One day in Tokyo, we set off for Sapporo tomorrow night and I think we get in in the afternoon and leave the next afternoon. After that, go to Alaska and have 7 sea days.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Apr 22, 2024 7:32:47 GMT -5
I thought about looking for that yarn shop today, but think I’d wind up maxing out my card. TD doesn’t need to know the extent of my addiction! What I did was replace the needles on one of the sweaters I’m making with a smaller size. This is just a place holder. I used the needles I took off that sweater for the second one. However, I only took 4 50g balls of yarn (and I am going through about 3/4 of a ball it each day). I estimate that will take me about to the point where I need to separate out the sleeves. When I use that up (I have more at home) I’ll pull the smaller needles off and use those as a place holder on sweater 2, then go back to sweater 1 and frog all the lace section I screwed up. I have a lifeline there. I’m considering not doing this in lace, as the yarn is verigated and lace plus changing colors of yarn is too busy. But I need to figure out which of 3 hanks I have with me will work best, since it is a hand dyed yarn and they’re all so different. I may have to just knit off of all 3 hanks at a time, a few rows of each. The other option is to get TD come with me to that yarn shop, since his phone has local phone access. Then we can Uber there and back…..maybe? I am impressed at the restraint..even DH said he would just go and buy new yarn. That said alternating skeins like that seems to be the best solution with your sweater. I wouldn't have enough patience for that. At least it will be less of a pain alternating skeins if I’m not working on a lace pattern too.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Apr 21, 2024 20:01:03 GMT -5
The Walk of the Penguin Mich I may have missed your post because of the work I had done last week, but did you manage to find yarn shops? With gorgeous yarn and those knitting needles you needed? I thought about looking for that yarn shop today, but think I’d wind up maxing out my card. TD doesn’t need to know the extent of my addiction! What I did was replace the needles on one of the sweaters I’m making with a smaller size. This is just a place holder. I used the needles I took off that sweater for the second one. However, I only took 4 50g balls of yarn (and I am going through about 3/4 of a ball it each day). I estimate that will take me about to the point where I need to separate out the sleeves. When I use that up (I have more at home) I’ll pull the smaller needles off and use those as a place holder on sweater 2, then go back to sweater 1 and frog all the lace section I screwed up. I have a lifeline there. I’m considering not doing this in lace, as the yarn is verigated and lace plus changing colors of yarn is too busy. But I need to figure out which of 3 hanks I have with me will work best, since it is a hand dyed yarn and they’re all so different. I may have to just knit off of all 3 hanks at a time, a few rows of each. The other option is to get TD come with me to that yarn shop, since his phone has local phone access. Then we can Uber there and back…..maybe?
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Apr 21, 2024 18:55:13 GMT -5
Apparently a whole study was done five years ago on if being allowed to wear jeans instead of business attire caused productivity to slack. The answer was duh..no. Never ceases to amaze me what corporate America chooses to focus time and resources on. I wonder if they took the need to crawl under lab benches or on top of them under consideration?
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Apr 21, 2024 18:53:03 GMT -5
We just docked in Tokyo this morning. It’s chilly and raining out. TD went out in shorts and t shirt, no rain jacket. I don’t go out until later this afternoon as he wanted to do a tour that is demanding. I can do those, but am no good afterwards and didn’t find it that interesting. We have 3 days here, then we sail across the Behring Strait for Alaska. We were in Shimizu yesterday, home of Mount Fuji. We could just barely make it out in the clouds, definitely not like the pics of the volcano against a bright blue sky. The tour guide said that those pics are usually taken in the winter, by the spring and summer there is too much smog coming over from China. We went to a beach that had volcanic ask as sand and my white sneaks are no longer white. I NEVER buy white for this reason, and not sure if there is any way to clean them up as they are filthy. TD has 4 batteries for his camera. He washed all but one. Me washing his wallet was the cause of a fight…..I wonder why he didn’t tell me he is down 3 batteries because he washed them? I suspect we will be on the hunt for replacements while he is out.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Apr 21, 2024 18:32:53 GMT -5
I love me a good graphic tee but I'm not allowed to wear them at work which is dumb I work in a lab.But whatever. It does mean I've been passing on Tees unless they are really unique because I have more than enough for weekend wear. I did create a small loophole by upcycling old T shirts onto flannel or blouses or a jacket. So far I haven't been told I can't wear those.🤷♀️ I just did one with a Frieda Kahlo tee on the back of a men's pink long sleeve shirt. I added jewels to the design. I got quite a few compliments. I've been on a roll with that again. I'm also on a vintage streak. The one thrift store I frequent has a vintage rack. It takes patience but I've found several gems there. Lately it seems like a lot of estates are being cleaned out. Wish I had grabbed more of the vintage blouse collection when it was there. I picked one. The rest were gone when I got back. Then there was the glorious sweater vest collection. Not my thing but man it was impressive. My current prize is a 1950s/60s mod dress. I love the buttons. It came in with a couple others that were too damaged to make it worth it for me. Someone cleaned out grandmas closet. Graphic t shirts nearly caused a Holy War at work. They were banned in our lab too. How it worked, we had a guy who was a part time pastor who always wore them. In the lab, there were both Israeli Jews, along with a couple of Muslims from the Middle East thrown in for good measure. As they were visiting, they didn’t do or say anything, but another employee came in wearing a ‘Born Again Pagan‘ t shirt in their defense (and her’s as well). OMG! The PI (who was also Jewish) put his foot down on any graphic t shirts worn in the lab after that.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Apr 20, 2024 22:21:05 GMT -5
I bought rhubarb. I know what i could make with it. I don't know what to do with it. It is a predicament. I'd make a crisp, but we are already starting the season of our lives in which we will be continually eating birthday cake for the next few weeks. So, i want to wait for a while. I think I'll make bread..I can freeze it for later. It seems strange to make food that only DH and I will eat though. I can give some away, too. Freeze it until birthday season is over. Rhubarb freezes well.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Apr 20, 2024 22:18:58 GMT -5
- Canada geese are migratory and as such protected under the law - I have never heard anyone claim they are tasty - they shit all over the place and have made my condo complex a stopover on their flights north/sound - they are clumsy IMO and use my roof for landing and takeoff - they are LOUD both vocally and in their roof maneuvers And they are driving me nuts with their racket so now I am trying to figure out how to get rid of them without risking either fines or jail. Unsuccessfully I may add. They managed to get rid of them in a park nearby but that caused them to go to other places with water - in other words a bunch of them came here This reminds me of a joke TD played on his mom. He sent her pictures of a penguin colony we visited, and told her that Penguin was on the menu for dinner that night. She blew a gasket when he told her it tasted like halibut. It was April fools day.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Apr 20, 2024 3:16:37 GMT -5
My sister doesn’t have an office to go back to. When they decided to go to a WFH model, the trial run during Covid showed them it could work, so they gave up their lease on their building.
Not saying it’s impossible for the company to revert back to the office, but not likely.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Apr 20, 2024 3:13:07 GMT -5
how do people end up believing stuff that is so easily proved false? How do you explain how easy it is to fact check Trump? Whatever lie he spouts is taken as fact. There are a lot of idiots out there.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Apr 20, 2024 0:09:09 GMT -5
Not here, I just paid $578 for a 2020 Buick Envision, my 2018 Chrysler 300 is $886, hubs 2020 Ford truck is $673 and I think that is really good. Our broker put us with Erie Insurance a few years ago. If we move one car will be sold, I sure won't need 2. Maybe if we get further out from Olympia. I just looked at a gorgeous house in McCleary, Wa, has a nice big garage for hubs and is one story like we want. I LOVE it, of course it will be gone before we can do anything. And it's on just half an acre, most of what we want. But it has mini splits for heating and cooling, doesn't look like enough to me. That town isn't that far away, it is doable and looks like nice homes out there. My insurance went up to around $700/year on my 17 year Subaru. TD pays quite a bit more on his cars, but he’s insuring a 2007 STi that has been rebuilt for racing, and a 2016 Miata. It wouldn’t surprise me if he’s paying over $2000/year insuring those 2 cars. I’m with USAA, he’s with Amica. Separating out our cars like this produced the least, comparable insurance. Adding a third car to his, or his 2 cars, plus house and umbrella to mine wasn’t useful.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Apr 19, 2024 2:08:35 GMT -5
But then those people (which included my dad) are no longer physically healthy enough to keep working. They—in our current economy—would qualify for social services and be on a fixed income. Social services is not even across the US. For instance, where my dad was Meals on Wheels had absolutely excellent support. They even provided pet supplies to the aged people’s pets. I have since learned this is the exception, not the rule. My dad used to deliver, and when they had leftovers, they’d give their drivers a meal. I tried it, they were pretty damned good (far better than some restaurants).
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Apr 18, 2024 23:38:38 GMT -5
So if someone retires, do they not count as being on a fixed income if their skills and abilities make them employable? Or do they count as a fixed income as soon as they retire with the intention of not going back to work? Please know that I’m not trying to be disrespectful—I love debating the meanings of words and phrases. And I’m really not in any way disparaging those who have true limitations. What’s the difference between retirement and choosing not work? Ability? TD continues to work, and will continue to work as long as his mind is well functioning. People who have had jobs that are hard on their body are now dealing with aches and pains where their body just doesn’t want to work like it should.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Apr 18, 2024 23:18:15 GMT -5
I think of fixed income as someone living on SS. When working there can be raises or overtime. SS gets raises too. SS raises are usually offset by equal increases in Medicare premiums.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Apr 18, 2024 22:02:01 GMT -5
Man, some of the people on this cruise need to check themselves. We are on a 3 hour tour, and one couple was pissed snd yelled at the guide because he didn’t take us to the Buddha. The location of the Buddha was a 1.45 hour bus ride which is seen on the 9 hour excursion offered. Does no one look at what they are signing up for? It wasn’t until another couple showed the guide the daily paper that the guide was able to explain where it was.
Then in walking to the shrine, the walkway has these 3’ posts to stop people from driving on the walk. One guy ran into the post snd hit his balls. That had to hurt, but we had been sidestepping these posts for 100 yards. Maybe pay attention? He was pissed at the post, the city and the tour guide and was cussing up a blue streak. We are in someone else’s country, politeness (particularly here) goes a long way.
At least Kobe has free Wi-Fi. We got TD a SIM card thinking I could tether off of it. I can’t.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Apr 18, 2024 21:17:46 GMT -5
In Kobe, just returning from an excursion. I had hoped we might be here overnight. If so, I had the idea to grab a cab and go get some real Kobe beef. I have had it before, but didn’t feel like it was any different from a prime cut of beef. It makes me wonder if it was something being by passed off as Kobe beef. All on board time is 7, so no dinner off the ship.
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