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I'm applying for my Social Security in June. I will be curious what I get, if anything.

That's pretty much me too. Instead of fishing and working in the garden, I'm an artist and a musician, but I goof off a lot too. I feel sad for people who are so dependent on their work, that they can not imagine anything else. But then, we each choose how we want to spend our lives.

Sixty three. That is when I decided that there was so much more to life than going to work.

The home next door to me went up for sale last summer, and a college kid moved in there. I talked to him one day, and he told me that his dad was helping him buy it, and he was going to have two room mates. I had a panic attack. Three weeks later, the dad was helping him move in. Dad came over...

Not always, but I have done it. I'm always interested in where the show is supposedly taking place, and where it is really being filmed. We live in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, and they are always filming here. Then later I'll be watching a movie or tv show that is supposed to be in Cuba, or Costa...

I'm sorry that everything doesn't go the way you want it to. I'm sorry that there are people who don't do their jobs right, and that they cause you stress. I'm sorry that there are people who think that you look dorky in your bicycling costume. It must all be frustrating for you.

I know this does not help. My father and mother both died in 2012. They did have wills, but there were parts of the estate that were not addressed in the will. Particularly things like his farm, and other properties that he owned, and how they should be handled or disposed of. Throughout the...

This is an interesting thread, because it got me to thinking. I looked back at the sixty-five years of my life, trying to find a time that I was mistreated, maltreated, or untreated, and I could not come up with anything worth noting. Unless getting poor service at a restaurant counts. Not that...

I went to Oshkosh one year. It was OK. I got tired of standing in line, it was hot, and perhaps if I had flown in, instead of driving, it would have been better. But then, I went to Burning Man, and wasn't impressed with that either. Maybe it is me.

It is obvious that GA is a big part of your life, and that you identify with it. But there are a lot of pilots who have never been to Oshkosh. Are they any less a pilot? Do we measure pilots by how many Oshkosh's they've attended?

I've heard this discussion for about every activity that people are passionate about, and it is usually predicated by someone hanging around with old guys. Just before Christmas it was the fellow working at the music store and two old guys, sitting there at two in the afternoon, talking about...

Up until three years ago, when I retired for the last time, I supervised the lifeguards for the city's Parks and Rec aquatics facilities. We had to deal with ADA all the time, and not just access to the pools themselves, but to all areas of the facilities. The accommodations were not that hard...

I know that my Dad and his brothers came home from WWII and all learned to fly, using the GI bill to pay for it. They ended up getting their private license, three of them became farmers, and one got killed in a car accident. As my Dad always said, life got in the way of his flying. I don't...

Maybe he has been here for a long time, and finally something moved him?:yes:

A friend, who got his Private Pilot, but doesn't fly anymore, said the other day, that it isn't just the money, it is the commitment. Flying airplanes requires a lot of commitment. I think that a lot of people just don't have the time or the commitment that it take.

https://www.yahoo.com/style/walmart-closing-hundreds-stores-laying-140952700.html So I read this on all the financial pages today, but I ask myself, what is to blame for this? In Ames Iowa, where I live most of the year, a town of maybe sixty thousand, we have a Walmart, a Super Walmart, and...

I wonder who that kind of money would turn me into. I'm pretty conservative about spending money, especially if there is no value in return. I also don't tend to accumulate a lot of stuff. I am more into the utility of things. I don't have much time for anything that has no purpose. I wonder if...

A half competent PI maybe, but not every Tom, Dick, and Harry weirdo could find you. The people who are going to most likely try to get money from you with some sob story or crazy business venture, are probably not going to hire a PI to find you. I would do just that, make myself a new identity...

So the alternative is that you don't play, you don't win, you get cancer anyway, you max out your health insurance, die, and your family has nothing. Don't see the positive side of that one either.

I guess that I would have to upgrade from my 760 sq. foot condo in Old San Juan, to a villa outside of town. I might start flying down here first class too.