Recent content by CuppaJoe

Glad to see you and other familiar members still posting. :dance:

I have Social Security and a very conservative portfolio that is up about 5% from the day I retired. I take between 4-5%, maybe could take more but have a lifetime frugality addiction. I prefer to think of it as having X months of expenses above the portfolio principal. I expected to use “the...

I loved her for hating w*rk and swearing she would sooner pull all her fingernails out than go back. I actually think of her often and her relevant-to-so-many-situations: [I’ll move] “when the cat dies”. She was totally relevant to this forum and will be missed, even by those of us who don’t...

Thanks, Alan. I’m not really back, public transit is just a favorite topic. (will send PM) Back on topic: The National Park Service provides free shuttles. I occasionally use it in and to the San Francisco Presidio, (it has a stop two blocks steeply downhill from my apt.). They make a...

I grew up in a township with a volunteer fire dept., septic tanks; we hauled our garbage to the dump; you should have seem the snowdrifts we walked thru uphill to get to school... But yes, we had all the other stuff you mention and we paid taxes.

Hello, mayor of the forum. It’s like the old joke about the child who didn’t speak until he was 4-yrs.old. Said he had no complaints until then. Nine years! Time flies when you’re enjoying not going to work. :dance:

Hi all. Years ago, former Mayor Gavin Newsom wanted free Muni (City and County of San Francisco transit system) for all. One of the reasons was that it is so hard to collect & process fares, especially the ones in cash; also boarding & transit time is much faster without fare payments. It...

I used it occasionally in the '70s when I didn't want to waste my brief lunch break eating a real lunch inside. Sat outside in the sun with a can of chocolate. Those were the days--I was thin and fit and never thought about dieting.

Bless their marketing dept. Keep in mind that "Hilton Union Square" sounds like a euphemism to me. It may not be technically in The Tenderloin but at minimum is borderline. For just a few days, I'd pay the $51 tariff. How about renting from the closest place on, um, Union Square;) and fuguring...

When we were kids we stretched and jumped around to his half hour b+w TV program. I loved the part where he would say, "beginners stop!" I'm a perpetual beginner. Whenever I've had enough of anything, I still hear his voice, "beginners stop."

I occasionally sell books through Amazon Marketplace. Twice their robot would not let me list at my chosen price. One, a signed out-of-print paperback novel of interest to tourists & residents of my hometown, in so-so condition, could only be listed above $12.00; the other, an apparently...

Now, if we could include thank you notes and PMs, the stats would be the same?

Oh boy! Your title is so right. We saw Arlo in '88 or 89ish at the Greek Theater with some even older performers, IIRC (or wasn't overcome with second-hand smoke) Pete Seeger and remnants of Peter Paul and Mary and maybe Mamas and Papas. We thought it was our last chance to be among (other)...

Yeah, thanks, NW-Bound, tweaked my interest.

Yeah, Cooper might have made something of himself if that, um, gosh durned Hays Code hadn't interrupted.