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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.

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.

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...

Wow! I am speechless!!!

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

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...

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...

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...

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.

Wow. Thanks for the trip report. My knees hurt just reading all the hikes :-)

Did you forget to put landing gear down? or it is mal-function?

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...

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...

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.

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...

I lived in Beaverton OR for 30 years. Raised my kids there. When I retired in 2018, we moved to Florida, but quickly realized that Florida was not for us. So we moved back to the Pacific NW and chose Camas. Beaverton is a great place to live, great community, great public schools, most...

If you are in Portland and checking out Vancouver, you should also check out Camas WA. It is east of Vancouver. It was smaller town, but it getting more more new home construction lately. It is a safer community vs Vancouver, Portland. Beautiful parks (free)...

Check out the fire cube TV. You can use voice commands to turn on/off tv, turn up/down volume, switch input, start netflix - search for movies etc...

Please let us know how the Holy Stone performs. Thanks.

I remember I got so exciting going from 300 baud rate to 9600 baud rate - At megacorp, we came up with and idea to combine 2 modem connections so that we could have 9600 bits x2 (it later called bonding). As I recall we was using windows 3.0 with netware ipx (tcp is not in fashion yet) Now I...

His wife still works until the end of the year. If he files married join, he still be able to contribute to Roth (earned income from the spouse)

I recently get hook with Flight Simulator (MSFS2020). A bit costly to start, since you would need a hefty PC and GPU, yoke, throttle controllers etc... A lots to learn but very satisfy experience.

Same here. I applied in June 12th 2022. I haven't heard anything and their website says "Pending review". It also says that I must check the website for status (meaning no email)

+1 - Easiest and most secure to send money if both (sender and receiver) are using iphone.

RE'ed in 2018, got a call from mega corp in June 2020. It has been > 2 years full time WFH, no travel, great pay. The original plan was working until COVID is over, however, I find myself still enjoying the works and mega corp assures me that I could take long breaks or vacations (of course...