Recent content by jeffmete

ACA quoted me 2,200/month when I retired at 62.5 (for my wife and I), ended up going with a Christian medical sharing (Medishare) which was less than half the ACA. It’s not for everyone, but worked out for us till Medicare kicked in.

My wife has had both knees and one shoulder. First knee went great. Second knee got infected, had to have second operation to clean out and replace plastic parts, and spent two weeks in a nursing home on continuous antibiotics. Shoulder replacement went great, and then two weeks into therapy, it...

I was 6’3” and 185 when I graduated, now I’m 6’5” and 220 at 70 yo. Could lose 10 or so to lose the love handles. ��

I keep our road trip cars to around 200k miles or 10 years old. the last two Chrysler minivans, I allowed the car to tell me when to change oil, usually around 10K miles. Even at 200,000 miles, they haven’t used a quart during an oil change, my last van was sold to a friend and it’s now pushing...

We bought an ocean condo in Florida 3 weeks before covid hit. The seller was still 100K underwater from when they purchased in 2006. If they would have waited another 6 months they would have at least broke even and if they waited another year, they would have made a couple 100K. My point is...

Yeah, I’m not a Tesla fanboy, but, they have pulled off the near impossible starting both a new car company and a new power source. If you get a chance take a look at the vertical integration at Fords River Rouge. They made steel, glass and cast iron blocks: raw materials came in and cars rolled...

Yeah, assembly plants are generally just that, assembly and paint. The actual manufacturing of the parts and pieces is still heavily outsourced. But any US manufacturing is a step in the right direction!

If you look at mfg as a percentage of gdp it’s been going down for a long time. Take a drive through the Midwest to see the results of this. Detroit, flint, Saginaw, Gary, all areas decimated by maufacturing going away. Genessee county (Flint, Mi) had the highest per capita income in the US back...

You buy ten batteries, you will lose 8 of them and be asking this question again😎

Ha, my Florida property taxes are up 11%. I’d complain, but won’t do any good!

I’ve notice jeep gladiators are going for substantially under msrp now and ram 1500 can be found $8K under msrp, so I think it’s already turning…

It’s easy to look at sedentary older people and blame them for being sedentary. My wife has arthritis in all her joints, new knees helped, but now her ankles and shoulder are going out, so it hurts to walk, and the less you do, the less you want to do. She had infections in her last knee...

I used to work with an elderly Chinese engineer. We were in a meeting once and he told the plant manager “you Americans are lazy” . But he was old school and escaped China during the revolution,

I went to a military academy out of high school and after an injury and Vietnam ending I decided to do something different, got married and went to GMI in mechanical eng and found out part way through I wanted to be a metallurgical engineer, but having a wife and a new son, decided to stick it...

It’s like there are two countries out there, the one where everybody is masked and showing vac status to eat and the rest of the country. I haven’t worn a mask except for dr app for probably a year. I am vac and boosted. All my kids had the Covid before the vaccine came out.