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Why do you care? I"m just wondering why things like that cause you so much stress.

I got my A&P in 1970. I did not follow it as a career path, but worked part time over the years. When I retired from my career job, I used it for supplemental retirement income. I hear of some airplane mechanics who make the big bucks, but I've never actually met one. None of the mechanic jobs...

Except for four years in the Navy, and two years going to college in Jacksonville, I've lived in Iowa most of my life. Iowa is a nice enough place, if you like farms. But some people love to come to Iowa and look at all those square fields with straight rows of corn and beans. Owning two homes...

I lived in Jacksonville for three years. I did not particularly like Jacksonville. I did like the areas down the coast between Jacksonville and Daytona though. But your comment reminded me of a skiing trip I took with my wife and son. We were in this beautiful skiing area, surrounded by...

Puerto Rico has a lot of the benefits of living in the states. Reliable mail, which is very handy, especially at tax time. And as Hindsight 2020 says, my medicare and my healthcare insurance works here. Some things here are quite familiar. The banking system down here is FDIC, and buying...

Lady that goes to my church jumps. I don't know how long she has been doing it, but she is evidently an instructor. She must be seventy. She is older than I am. But she has been trying to get me to jump tandem with her for years, and I keep telling her I'm married.

Then you are not retired. I worked those hours before too, and it is nice to have those three day weekends, but you still have to show up for the other four. Retired to me means that you don't have to show up for those other four.

I'll have to watch how Mr. Haney explains Medicare later. I'm sure it is hilarious. I've been on Medicare for almost a year. it doesn't look like it works any different than the BC/BS that I had, except that the premiums are about at third of what I was paying before.

It certainly can. I went through that.

I have a condo in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico and we are about to leave and go up to our place in Iowa. We usually come down several times a year, but my daughter is pregnant, my wife wants to go to a business conference, and it is looking more and more like the condo will be sitting until the end...

Probably the biggest factor with me was that we bought a condo in San Juan, Puerto Rico. We have family in Iowa, so we didn't want to just pull up roots and move to PR, but at the same time we wanted to have the freedom to just hop on a plane and come down. Even a part time job and the...

Same story for my wife. My wife was VP of a software company that was struggling after 2008, so they cut her department in 2012 to try and keep it afloat. A year later, they went under. They called her up and asked her if she wanted all of her office furniture. We got a truck and hauled it all...

I don't do any flying for business, which is a whole different critter. But my wife and I fly back and forth between Iowa and Puerto Rico several times a year, which would be a heck of a trip by a private plane. But we have found ourselves in a position in our lives where we would welcome a...

I retired, or I should say that I retired from one job, and started my part time retirement job a few days later. I went through three part time jobs, and a short time in another full time job over the course of the next seven years. Part time jobs are still jobs. You still have a schedule, you...

Have good insurance and be ready to get sued. You can do everything right, and you will still get sued. If you do take everyone's advise here, and if you do everything right, and if you have good insurance, you will come out the other side okay, but getting dragged through the process, makes...

Yes, I have been there. I went there when I turned 62, just to get an idea. When I punched everything in, the amount did not look right to me, so I went in to the SS office and asked. The lady at the SS told me it was wrong. She said that it is often wrong, because there are a lot of factors...

I don't know. I've never even thought about it until now.

There was a whole line of long haired hippies waiting to get a haircut when I went into the Navy. Maybe your Dad was one of them. Something about the Viet Nam War and the draft ended more than a few long haired hippie careers. That is why I'm trying to get those days back, in retirement I mean...

I agree with you. I'm surrounded by young people, and they are all just fine. The neighbor kids are great, their friends are good, my kids are good, my kid's friends are good. They are all working on being successful and responsible people. I run into young people all the time down here in PR...

I brew two batches a year. One in the spring, when I get back to Iowa from PR, and one in October, so that I have something for Thanksgiving and Christmas. My wife and I used to make wine, but then she became a marketing consultant for a Napa Winery, and she gets bonuses in wine. So we have a...