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    Thank You and Happy Thanksgiving!

    Thank you all. We are so blessed with many things/decisions in our life, thanks for that. I retired in 2018, but decided to go back to the same mega-corp in 2020 (during COVID). I am going to retire again this Dec 29th. I am excited.
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    Rise of the Secretly 'Overemployed'

    Employers would not know. Each employer would provide employees with laptop and VPN. So the employee with multiple gigs would have multiple laptops with multiple VPN.
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    Why move to Florida?

    We snowed bird to Florida from PNW starting 2016. Maintain two places became too much works for us (2 trips per year, 3 summer months and Christmas season back to PNW). We decided to move back to PNW in late 2019 and completed the move during COVID March 2020. Never look back, and glad that we...
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    What new series are you watching? *No Spoilers, Please*

    Many suggested 'Yellowstone' before - I just now got to watch it on Peacock - Thump up, great scripts great acting.
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    Global Entry Changes

    I guess we were lucky. At LAX, they have 4 booths for the global entry interview. Just only one person was in front of us. The whole process only took 20 minutes, the longest part was fingerprinting, I had to adjust my fingers on the reader a few times before the agent could take an acceptable...
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    Global Entry Changes

    Looking back, both me and my wife applied in June/2022. My wife traveled overseas without me Sep 2022, she also received an email saying her application was conditional approved a couple days before she came back to the US. But she did not check her email at that time (Sep/2022), therefore, she...
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    Global Entry Changes

    I applied June/2022 and in pending mode until I recently traveled overseas and just 1 day before I come back the US I received an email saying it was conditional approved and I can get an in person interview when I enter the US port (if the port has global entry interview boot). Same thing...
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    Tinnitus help

    I have it too. And it is very similar to what Running described in post #2. I had learned to live with it. Some days it bothered me a bit, some days I was able to ignore it. There are youtube videos that could help in a short period when the ring gets loud.
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    Driving and Hiking Patagonia, Emphasizing the Carretera Austral.

    Wow. Thanks for the trip report. My knees hurt just reading all the hikes :-)
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    Can't Justify an Expensive Hobby Even If I Can Afford It

    Did you forget to put landing gear down? or it is mal-function?
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    Can't Justify an Expensive Hobby Even If I Can Afford It

    Yes, you do need a very fast computer with a beefy graphic card. Ad no, you don't need to know anything about flying. There are groups on discord that you could join and learn (there are so many helpful folks in those groups), and they often having group flight where we can can flight together...
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    Can't Justify an Expensive Hobby Even If I Can Afford It

    I found my new hobby during covid - It is Flight Simulator. My father was in the SVN Air Force during the war, we lived in side the airforce base Tan Son Nhut Saigon. As kit I saw air crafts flying in and out the base (some with my father in the cockpit) and wished that I would become a pilot...
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    My Retirement Struggle

    Yeah, I bought an IBM PC in 85 for $3000, it came with a 5.2' floppy drive, and a monochrome monitor (no hard disk drive). I remember I was so excited when I got the first modem connection to the school lab with a whopping 300 baud rates. Boy, we went a long way didn't we.
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    Social Security Benefits Could Get Their Biggest Boost in 40 Years.

    We are a few older couples who live in the new neighborhood with lot of young couple with school age kids. The schools are all excellent, but tax for school are more. Although we no longer have any kid with us, I am happy to pay school tax to educate our future generations. I always vote yet...
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