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Dumb question of the day: hopefully this is quick and easy, but please bear with me… I’m 67. Most of my assets are with Vanguard. RMDs are on the horizon. Will Vanguard send a notification that I need to start taking distributions, what those amounts will be, or is the entire matter solely in my...

Twelve pounds of pumice for planting succulents; bottle of Dr. P. H. Martin’s watercolour, Van Dyke Brown.

I tried watching the first episode but bailed out after about ten minutes. Sounds like it didn’t get better.

Just finished all eight episodes of the first season and was very disappointed. Waltz is very good and the first half of the shows were intriguing, and suitably creepy. But after that it went way off the rails. No second season for me.

I’m three episodes into Cunk on Earth (Netflix). Actress Dianne Morgan plays Philomena Cunk, presenting a history-of-civilization mockumentary, except she’s kind of dense and shallow. It’s pretty hilarious. The description is vague as to whether this is a limited series or the first season of...

Oh, hell no.

Thanks for all the feedback. Looks like I’ll be playing with numbers for awhile.

For years I ignored the matter of Roth conversions, thinking it would be a lot of bother for not much benefit. Only recently did I take a look using some actual numbers and realized what a difference they could make. I’ve been ER’d ten years now so have a shorter time horizon to work with...

I recently completed a cross-country move which included a few hundred CDs (I like to hang onto this stuff too). I had many medium size packing boxes to fill with all belongings. The weight of CDs en masse mounts up quickly so to distribute this weight I packed a few dozen discs into the bottoms...

I still have (and occasionally still use) an old laptop that runs Vista; I want to say it’s probably 15 - 20 years old, but I just don’t recall. In 2010 I splurged on a first gen IPad, which became my daily workhorse. When Win 10 became the norm I felt obligated to upgrade the laptop to a new...

Your mom will be missed here very much. Condolences on your loss.

Work out at the gym four days a week, but not much beyond that. Write appointments on a calendar if I think about it, otherwise just making a mental note seems to work.

Didn’t love my job but didn’t hate it either. The last threshold I wanted to cross was to turn 55, when I would be eligible for retiree medical coverage. Reached that age then realized I was on track to pay off the mortgage in about a year, so decided that that would make a nice finish line. Had...

Coincidentally, Hulu began running a brief series of interviews with Sir Paul. I’m only one episode in but so far “McCartney 3-2-1” is interesting.

Bought a new house and moved cross country.

Yet more congratulations! You’ve set a good example for your coworker. Hope he checks in soon.

Just want to add another thumbs-up for The Queen’s Gambit. Excellence should be commended.

This may be a bit of a stretch... A few years ago my siblings and I sold our mom’s house after she passed. The couple who bought it paid cash, from lottery winnings (they gave the house to their daughter).

Looking at making a cross-country move next month and I’ll have to bring the cat on a plane. So I ordered a soft-sided, underseat pet carrier and a pheromone-based “calming” spray. Wish me luck.

Congratulations! Hope things work out just how you want them to.

The Godfather Part Two

I forget where I saw this or how trustworthy the source seemed, but the essence was that misspellings and bad grammar may be intentional as the scammers want to filter out the more skeptical respondents. I guess they feel if they’re going to invest time in playing a mark they want to increase...

I applied for a renewal just before the clampdown took hold, so the whole matter was in suspended animation for awhile. It was 2-3 months before the new one arrived.

I’m [I]not[I recommending this,even though it worked out... Upon turning 55 I qualified for retiree medical coverage, the final threshold I wanted to cross. I decided on OMY, just because that was when the mortgage would be paid off and I thought that would make a nice, neat finish line. Two...

The Academy’s desire to virtue-signal by choosing a foreign film reached a tipping point last year. “Parasite” was just the handiest example.