Recent content by dlhanson

We live full time in Florida in the Tampa area. We are not taking any trips away from home probably until late next year. We are concerned about getting exposed to the virus while we are traveling. The safest way to travel is by car, I believe, but you still get close to people at...

We have two sons, one who lives in Minnesota and the other in New Jersey. We live in Florida. We visited the older son for two weeks this year (he has all five of our grandchildren) and we paid for our younger son and his wife to fly to Minnesota at the same time. We plan to visit both of...

I retired at just the right time, May 9, 2009. I loved my work as a college teacher for 8 years after I retired at age 50 from a corporate job. But DW was having medical issued and she needed me home with her. She is better now so are traveling internationally frequently. My only source of...

I live Sun City Center which is a retirement community in the Tampa area. All most everyone here has come from the northern USA. In the last 8 years living none of my neighbors have moved due to the weather and not any of my community garden friends either. (I admit that I don't see many people...

I grew up in Wisconsin so I know what cold is. My wife grew up in Malaysia so she knows what hot and humid is. After marriage, we have lived in Texas, Colorado, Illinois, South Caroline, southern Argentina, and Gabon (west Africa). When it came time to retire in 2011, my wife needed to be...

Zero to primary care - annual physicals cause more harm than benefit. The cardiologist has me trapped by a pacemaker. 3 pacemaker checks by a technician and 1 visit to the cardiologist each year. I enjoy talking to the cardiologist though. We talk about music and travel. If we need medical...

Sweet Tomatoes - either their Brandon or Fort Myers, Florida restaurants. Great for vegans like dw and me.

BP retiree medical info I am a former BP (Amoco) employee who retired at age 50 a little over 14 years ago. Here is the information that I have gathered about BP's Medicare Eligible coverage. Go to the following website: BP Life Benefits (Core US Benefits) - Retiree medical coverage Near...

May 16, 1996 -- We purchased a book for one of our sons who were studying music while in high school. Harmony Through Counterpoint : A Programmed Introduction to the Theory of Tonal Music

Before we moved to Florida two years ago, we stayed at the Candlewood Suites in Clearwater. We negotiated a $1200 a month rate with the local manager. This is for a studio room with full kitchen (no oven though). Also there are homes in Sun City Center (a 55+ community) where we live listed...

We plan to buy a home in Sun City Center this summer. We have a sales contract on our current home which is scheduled to close in June. We have been winter snowbirds in Clearwater for the past two years. We chose Sun City Center due to the relatively affordable cost (we are looking mainly at...

From ClarkHoward.com (Clark Howard has a syndicated consumer oriented radio show): Aug 09, 2010 -- Getting rid of a timeshare may cost you $2,000 For the last eight years, Clark has guided timeshare owners who wanted to get rid of their obligation to DonateforaCause.org. This group allowed...

A US nuclear sub rammed another ship causing nearly £60MILLION damage - while its navigator was listening to his iPod. iPranged a submarine | The Sun |News This may be interesting to ex-Navy folks.

Sent our census form in. Filled in number of people and age -- put lines through anything doing with race (we are a racially mixed family and we're not telling Obama) -- and didn't include birthdates or phone number.

VMWare Player to run other OS's (Linux, another version or the same version of Windows) virtually. With the latest version, you can create virtual machines. Sun VirtualBox will do the same.