Recent content by Michael Moore

There are people in the world who have pretty much zero need for a mobile phone. I'm one of them. I'm at home about 98% of the time so I've got access to the VOIP landline that comes with my Sonic gigabit fiber optic service by reaching out my hand to the phone handset, and much of the time...

I've used two Dell U2412M in landscape at home for years, and had dual monitors for quite a while at w*rk before I retired 16 years ago. Two should be a minimum! A year or so ago I added a Dell U3219Q 4K as my main monitor and rotated the two smaller ones to portrait and had them off to the...

There's nothing that says you can't stay in contact with your former cow*rkers that you want to stay in contact with. I talked to one of my fellow retirees today, we had a nice chat and neither of us (after 15+ years) misses being there. I got a little teary on my last day, but it was on the...

My computers always seem to cost about the same money over the last 30 years, but then I've always bought something higher end for CAD/graphics. I even purchased x87 math coprocessors back in the day. Of course, OS/software have tended to bloat to match the hardware improvements making it a...

You can always stay on a year to year basis. Stay a year, then evaluate how things look/how you feel. If you want to leave then, do so, you've not invested too much extra time and you did get some financial benefit. If it looks like it might be best to stay another year, then do that, and...

My wife and I only get CSRS pensions (each on our own w*rk history) and no SSA RSI payments. When we filed for Medicare the local SSA office said they were not able to do anything about having the Medicare premiums deducted from the checks from OPM. With the degradation of the USPS service and...

Or being on the wrong floor without my ID badge . . . I've been retired for almost 16 years and I have a work dream 1-2X a week. In many of them I'm deciding to tell them that I'm retiring at the end of the pay period, or I've gone back to work but this time I'm going to retire and not come...

I got a hydraulic invalid hoist from a friend who could occasionally get one being surplused from the hospital he worked at. IIRC it has a 300 pound lift capacity, and separates into two sections so it can be stored away or put in a car trunk. I use it in the garage and it is very handy for...

My family moved to ABQ in 1963 when I was in 5th grade, and I left after graduating from UNM. My sister is still in ABQ (NE Heights), a friend is in the process of moving from the West Mesa into the northern NE Heights (he's bought the new place but the loan for the buyer of his old house got...

This week we've already sent probably more than we'd get as "stimulus" to the local food bank, which is already seeing large increases in demand. Their admin costs are low and they do a good job of leveraging (about 6X I think) donated money, so they've been our main charity for some time...

I have used dual Dell U2412M IPS monitors for some years, and when I upgraded to a new PC (which sees use for CAD and graphics) last summer I got one with an Nvidia Quadro 2000 workstation video card and added a Dell U3219Q monitor. I have the big one as the main monitor and the two 24" rotated...

Past a certain point the money makes money faster than any number of heirs can fritter it away. The super-rich can pay legions of specialists to protect their money both from governments and wastrel scions. IIRC the vast amount of privately held land in Great Britain is still in the hands of...

I watched a cooking show while waiting for my car to be serviced. The guest chef was asked about his thoughts on cilantro. He said he'd like to have a field of it that he could call a napalm airstrike on. My wife totally agrees with that sentiment. I can tolerate it but I don't seek it out.

We're on gigabit fiber from Sonic.net a NorCal-based ISP. When I check it is usually about 950-960mbps up and down. The cost is about the same or slightly less than what I paid Earthlink for years for not particularly reliable 1-3mbps DSL. If I have to contact support, that phone call is...

Same for us, both retired at 52.