Recent content by Automatika

Interesting... I live in Nashville (where Dave's show originate's from) and met with the Endorsed Local Provider (ELP) he recommends and says he uses. There's about a 1.3% management fee plus the expense ratio's of the funds themselves (Dave recommends against individual stocks or bonds). So the...

After immediately leaving my current employer I would also diedl diddle day, though probably not full time.

I used to love to tinker in the garage, paint and draw, but I recently got a request from my daughter to make her a box for the ringbearer to carry her rings down the aisle in for her upcoming wedding. I made the box and started painting it and have realized just how much my skills have...

Most of it is in Tennessee. I have driven parts of 127 while it went on and its not exactly continuous, pretty cool though. Lots 'o junk...

As a former entrepreneur who hung out with a lot of other entrepreneurs I can say that in MOST of the businesses I was associated with hiring overseas was not an option. A great deal of jobs are provided by small businesses in this country, mostly in service industries but also in manufacturing...

You will all be assimilated.

The 0-10% will never happen. That's part of the problem right now, ~50% pay no income tax at all. Some get money back without paying in.

I always preferred "irregardlessly" for emphasis...:rofl:

Ok, really... who voted for the bigger government? Gotta hear the justification for that...

That's the Musicians Hall of Fame.... R&R is in Cleveland, OH... It was torn down to make room for the new convention center. Country Hall of Fame is still here though. All the best places have been mentioned above, though there are lots of little music venues everywhere (Broadway, 2nd Ave, S...

Pretty sure I have it made though I'm still w*rking.... just got the new Roland guitar synthesizer so I can at least sound like I have it made...

The Gibson guitar factory is pretty cool, about a block from Beale Street. It's where they make the electric hollowbodies. I second the Hampton Inn also. Skip Cordova Square, it's gone...

33 years so far, but next year I start working as a consultant again, sort of like semi-retiring. May do that forever...

To me it depends on whether you plan on being together through your retirement. I combine our net worth because if something were to impact one of us financially, it would impact both of us. Welcome to the site!

+1 Unequivocably, no.