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If someone is going to program a new electronic fob with your car, best to do it in the parking lot of your favorite dealer with transmission in Neutral/Parking brake set. If something goes wrong and it turns your car into a brick, they can easily push it inside and use whatever shop equipment...

When we bought our current Corvette new in 2017, the dealer activated the data reporting system without telling us. For the first month I was driving the new car like Grandpa, to gently break in the engine, transmission, brakes, etc. But at the end of that month I got the report and it was...

DW will be needing cataract surgery soon, and is very conflicted about which type of lens to use. The surgery practice recommended by her optometrist wants her to use the LAL, but my own optometrist is cautious about the relatively new technology. It's been approved for a while, but the total...

In one sense, I totally agree with your statement. But... There have been complaints for decades that the various European governments find ways, large and small, to subsidize Airbus. IIRC, the unions at Boeing have gotten some nice contracts in recent years. So perhaps Boeing feels backed...

My wife has purchased a few furniture items from Wayfair. When they arrived, the quality each time was less that what we expected. We don't buy from them any more.

32 of my 36 years flying at United were on Boeing airplanes. I also flew the DC-8 and DC-10, the 8 was a cumbersome antique and the 10 was a nice flying airplane with serious mechanical issues. The old saying was "If it's not Boeing, I'm not going." I never really bought into that, but...

Almost no parts commonality between early B737s (1960's) and the latest designs. Much more parts commonality between B737's made over last decade and current production. Huge training commonality between the various 737 models any particular airline flys. When I was flying for United (now...

That's the best advice anyone can get. Follow it!

Can you record Prime on a VCR? Record the show and then fast-forward through the commercials? We've been doing that for years on regular TV, if we have to watch live then we hit the mute button and talk about the weather during the commercials. Not perfect but gives us the satisfaction of...

If they were offering me a thousand dollars more than the other outfits, I'd do it. A thousand dollars for an hour for waiting sounds like a good deal.

A quick look on immediate annuities.com for our ages (78 & 76) shows $18,264 per year for a $200k purchase, unknown company. (I posted our ages 15 years from now as 93 & 91). Policies for higher rated companies or with some kind of inflation rider, would surely be less.

Will DW or I want to be managing our portfolio 15 years from now (ages 93 and 91)? Will we still have enough brain cells to do so? I'm not good enough with FireCalc to get the comparison, but it looks like $200k in a joint SPIA would get us $18k per year "forever" with no hassle. Interesting...

We do the same. But... A few months ago we were on a multi-stop river cruise in France, 120 passenger ship for 10 days. DW and I both came down with Covid at the same time, fast. What we needed was simply a clinic to get us Paxlovid. NOBODY in the crew spoke enough medical english to fully...

20+ years ago I was thinking of buying a new Corvette, and asked our agent (State Farm) how much my premiums would increase. He looked it up and said the only increase would be from the increased value of the car, State Farm had very good results with Corvettes. Here we are after 22 years in a...

Recently I read an article about the declining percentage of men in college. There was a comment about the problems of a future with lots of young, undereducated, underemployed, lonely men. Not a good thing.

Our State Farm homeowners and umbrella policies specifically exclude any intentionally caused damages, that seems common in many/most states. So if you accidentally shoot someone in your house, that's covered. But if you intentionally shoot someone in the house who is trying to murder your...

There are glasses, and then there are glasses. I've been wearing progressive lenses for over 30 years and am very used to them. When the local glasses place I had been using closed down permanently during Covid, I went to Costco for my next set. Everything was fine until we got to the part...

This discussion about new-but-less-useful OS reminds me of what's going on in automobiles. It seems that modern autos have electronics designed by iPhone junkies- full of "features" that are useful for 1% of the owners but annoying for the other 99%.

Do be aware that the Black Hills area has some weather extremes. Lots of cold and snow in winter, lots of heat in summer. Years ago, we drove half way across ND with the outside air temp at 108'F. But the area is definitely worth your time, we've been there 4 times and still want to go back.

When I retired 18 years ago, my former employer had a "typical" retirement health insurance plan since I was under Medicare age. Five years later, I aged into Medicare and the supplement from my former employer. Five years ago, the former employer switched all of their retirees who were...

My parents raised me in the faith of our church. I went through the usual questioning and searching in my teens and twenties, finally concluded (a bit reluctantly) that the major parts are true, and our physical life is not the whole story. Like everyone, at 78 I sometimes get down about the...

At age 78, I've been on 81mg aspirin for about 15 years, as suggested by PCP back then. Now the recommendations have changed, and I would not be recommended to start now. When I asked our current PCP if I should stop or continue, she says there are no good studies on what happens when people...

We live in a different county, semi-agricultural, about 50 miles west of Chicago. It's too soon to tell how the "no cash bail" thing will turn out, but news in our local papers suggests that local judges and DA's are finding lots of people who meet the criteria for being detained until trial...

We've been using whatever Corvette we happen to own at the time over the last 20 years, the 1997-2019 all have good trunk space and we find them comfortable for long drives; if you avoid the stiffest suspension options. Some other folks of similar size find the interior very cramped, it seems...

^^^^^ To my thinking, the black swan events can effect stocks or bonds or gold or everything. Very few people expected 911 or Covid or 10% inflation.