Recent content by mokan

I use Lightroom. I'm definitely an amateur. I find that its tagging and sorting features work well for me. I scanned all of our old photos and used Photoshop Elements to tidy up the old pictures. I have Lightroom 3 & didn't know they had gone to a subscription format. I won't do that, so...

I've used a cheater. It will be fine for a laptop. As one poster mentioned, a lot of these adapters use plastic prongs for the ground lug & using a cheater is no different. You can also just buy different adapters at most international airports.

Thanks for this. Wells Fargo forced the switch to Zelle for transfers to other WF customers (my sons). I should have realized they were a popular 3rd party app. I'm sure WF is doing it to eliminate the cost of maintaining an internal feature + offloading the liability if something goes wrong.

Two teachers in particular made a difference Two teachers made a huge difference for me. The first ... in Jr High science class, I was bored while the teacher was talking. I'd drawn a solar powered car with all sorts of gadgets hanging off of it. He walked by me, tapped the drawing & said...

Corporate ladder actually goes down into a pit . . . I worked for a Megacorp for 34 years and held a wide variety of jobs. It seems a little known fact that the corporate ladder actually goes down into a pit & not up into the clouds. The more I moved along the corporate ladder, the more...

Its just a survey but I enjoyed it Thanks to the OP for starting the thread. Take it all with a grain of salt, of course, but its quick & cheap external benchmarking. We're in the middle of selling one house and upgrading. We also need to decide whether to keep the vacation place. If we...

Guessing you are in Louisiana I wouldn't move just to get a better high school. There are too many other factors that affect the success of your kids. I personally like smaller schools (student population). Your kids just get to do more. My oldest was in a large school in Texas - 1000...

Missouri fan here After about a year of mulling it over and thinking about it, my wife and I are moving from a Houston TX suburb to Springfield, MO. It doesn't quite qualify as a small town although its only the size of our Houston suburb (180,000 people). There are at least 3 universities...

I gave my notice but told them I would stay on until they found a replacement. That took the better part of a a year. I did the job but it was really difficult to focus on the things I didn't like doing or anything that required long term strategy. It also changed the dynamic of my...

About the midpoint of the responses.. 0.5% for the 401K as of end February. Breakeven for the whole portfolio which is overweight in Megacorp stock & that is down. But since I expected it to crash, I'm reasonably happy.

Still getting used to it myself ... This thread struck a cord with me. I'm 57 and FIRE for a year now. It still feels odd to tell people I'm retired... as if I'm playing hookie from work! Especially people my age that are working ... comes out like an apology. The last job for Megacorp was...

Its been about 10 years since I've driven into New Orleans so I'm a bit dated. I always found parking is typical for a city - cramped & crowded, but usually manageable unless a big event was going on. Go earlier rather than later. We would usually pick one of the parking spots along the...

Cheap isn't always inexpensive There have been a lot of good comments here. To make it easy for people to comment, you framed your question in black & white: "cheap house" or "build". Obviously you have many more options than that. One thing to think about is the long term cost of owning...

I just joined the forum & this is actually my first post. Bella Vista is one of the places my wife & I are considering for long term retirement. The other descriptions capture it well. We go there multiple times a year but always in the fall for the craft shows. Nice area, affordable and...