Recent content by BigMoneyJim

Interesting. I saw the headline elsewhere but didn't feel the need to immediately panic. This *is* a big deal for people running servers and other network-enabled Java apps, but most individuals won't need to do anything aside from be sure they don't play online with untrusted people on an older...

This sounds incredibly familiar. I retired in October 2019. It's really good, but it mostly lacks the daily jubilation one might imagine beforehand. In fact, it gives you a lot more time to think about all your past and future problems which can be quite an adjustment. And it's also an...

<sigh>, I guess I need to figure this out in the next few months. I retired a year ago and have been paying COBRA, but my eligibility ends in March or April. (I haven't yet figured out exactly when, but 18 months I guess would be early April, first week or so.) I would continue paying for COBRA...

I don't know how the Texans are this season, but geez they started the season against the Superbowl champs followed by the divisional round loser who were expected to go far but got overrun by the unexpected super Titans. The Dallas game today. I still don't know what to make of it. I think...

Thanks. Penfed is one of the ones I couldn't transfer to. I guess I'll try again and screenshot the notary message if I get it again. Now I'm wondering if it's something to do with me and not my accounts. But when I first had trouble withdrawing to buy it was before I was directly employed by a...

I have had so much trouble trying to get any money out of Vanguard. I've had two different credit unions I tried to pull money from Vanguard into them, and VG tells me they need some notarized form from my CU, even from the CU from which all my after-tax funds entered VG from. >:( Did you have...

I think the answer to the question you're asking is that the only thing that will change in your 401(k) after leaving or retiring is that you can't add any more money to it. Most 401(k)s have open-ended fund as investment vehicle options, and I don't think I've ever heard of a dividend-minded...

Because I can start an early pension in 4.5 years, and there is no sane SEPP that will work for both before and after that time. I don't *have* to start the pension then, but I can't imagine that hitting the IRA for all my expenses until I'm 59.5 makes sense when I can start the pension early...

I retired almost a year ago, I have 10 years to go before I'm 59.5, and the vast majority of my money is in IRAs (having been rolled over from 401ks). I'm planning on selling my house and spending down the equity rather than draw more from IRAs. (Well, that's not the driving factor, but....)...

If you're using a VPN, I'm pretty sure you're violating somebody's terms of service. The state of NFL streaming and most sports streaming in general really sucks for...everyone. Every time I try to look into it, looking for a legitimate stream, I see "watch online here!" from NFL or ESPN or...

The pandemic caused an unexpected sudden increase in demand for shipping services. Any efficient logistic system is going to struggle with that. I waited a month on my first Amazon order after the shutdowns started, but they recovered within a handful of weeks. I worked for FedEx a couple of...

Too late! Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho are on my "maybe someday" radar. But pre-pandemic I was targeting the Seattle area, and now mid-pandemic Colorado seems about as far as I want to go. I guess I'm used to large population centers, but sooner or later I expect I'll check out less densely...

Continued thanks all! I think I've eliminated Grand Junction & Durango because I now realize it's important to me to be able to get back to DFW within a day of driving. The I-25 corridor South of Denver should meet that requirement in most any weather. My next move is not my forever move. In...

Thanks all! @mh : What's good/better about Grand Junction? It's the place I know the least about. I drove through it in November, and its general location and city-ness stuck in my head, but I don't even recall how close the mountains are. I just remember it's on the other side of the...

That's a good point. This didn't happen when I put my credit union Visa into Google & Apple Pay, but I recently put my Amex in both, and now my iPad pops up alerts whenever stuff is charged to my Amex *from anywhere*. I've never even used Apple Pay, just added the card just in case, but it knows...