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The way some people think is alien to me. It's often difficult to believe that we are the same species.

I spent far too much time today watching the demolition of the Fairfield Avenue bridge over I-95 in Norwalk. There was a truck collision on I-95 on Thursday. A tanker truck involved in the collision burst into flames directly under the bridge, structurally compromising it. So I-95 has been...

Here is a link to FIRECalc FIRECalc: A different kind of retirement calculator. You can also find it as a link at the bottom of the forum list.

Made and canned 18 half pints of chicken stock. Up-potted all 25 of my tomato seedlings.

I've been with Vanguard for 40 years. Never had any problem with them. I have deliberately kept my financial affairs simple and standard so that I don't need any handholding. In fact, I'm gradually rolling over my far flung 401k and 457 accounts to them, so I'll have everything in one place.

That was my interpretation as well.

Congratulations, EastWestGal! I'm happy to see you are living your best life.

As Dwight Eisenhower said, "Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.”

And that's how markets work. If the price is too high, people won't buy. Then the price drops until they do.

We went to Egypt for almost three weeks in November 2022. We were with a respected and experienced small guided group, and we went to the normal tourist areas (Pyramids, Valley of the Kings, etc.), stayed in the traditional grand tourist hotels (Mena House, Winter Palace, Old Cataract) and took...

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As I mentioned earlier, once you mark them read, they stay for 4 days and then disappear. They don't disappear immediately, just in case you accidentally marked something read and wanted to go back to it.

The map at this site may help with deciding where you might like to go. https://nces.ed.gov/programs/mapED/storymaps/TeacherSocialSecurity/index.html

I haven't seen credit card surcharges at restaurants around here, but gas station prices are, by law, explicitly listed as separate cash and credit prices. I always pay with a credit card because I'd have to make sure I have enough cash on me and take extra time to go inside and hand over some...

Groceries ARE included in the CPI. Look at the attached latest CPI report (for March). Groceries are within the "Food" category. Consumer Price Index Summary - 2024 M03 Results See also Concepts : Handbook of Methods: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Inflation is sometimes discussed in...