Recent content by Greenblue

The biggest milestone I can think of is watching the market inexplicably rise in 2020 and thinking, if this somehow keeps up, my investments will make me a millionaire. Lol. No way. Then the markets did, and I did the math late in the year and sure enough, somewhere in the fall I became a net...

Ouch. I'm in a blessed phase of life, and that article reminds me of how life happens, tragedy happens. At the drop of a hat everything could change. Maybe not specifically liver cancer, divorce, or an ax attack. But reasonablely something just as devastating. What makes me wonder is why an...

I'm always shopping for TSLA, watching for it to fall a bit to pick up some. I'm not convinced of the idealness of my current strategy -- selling the shares once they get 5-10% higher in price. But it hasn't lost me money so far, especially with Tesla's wild swings.

If you go to Google Sheets, go to Settings, and activate Offline, you can use it while disconnected from the internet, do your business, and delete it all before you reconnect. I've used Offline a lot in the past, though just for my small edits to my stuff, not from the start to finish of a...

Robinhood: 69.7% YTD (thanks Nvidia! [NVDA]) 401ks averaging about 14% YTD.

The fact that neither of us could even get 10.00 on the stopwatch even while carefully watching the time made my twice doing it without looking verge on the psychic. But when you say it your way, you make me think. Suppose I could reasonably get within 2.5 seconds of the 10:00 I'm aiming for...

The concern about how you'll spend your time might be worth worrying about, though it might not. While I'm not work-centric person, many of my friends are and they get anxious and their self-worth seems to suffer if they aren't doing something. Can you transition to part-time to test the...

As a teen, I was traveling with a friend and we were playing around with a stopwatch. We came up with a game to see who could stop the stop watch closest to 10.00 (that is, ten seconds and zero hundredths of a second.) After several back-and-forths, neither of us got closer than 2 hundredths...

Got my very first case of Covid-19 last year also on a cruise out of Florida. Started feeling symptoms toward the end of the cruise. No symptoms or signs of the disease from the rest of my family, but I was so miserable for a couple days there. It was frustrating that I had to go through a...

My DW's parents were made starry-eyed by Amway's siren call of self-reliance and "being a go-getter", which was already ingrained in them as an ideal by church. Advice is a bad idea, and "no, thank you" is a valid response, but if you do want to help them, ask detached, calm questions and be...

Thank you all for your attentive and thought-provoking responses. My wife and I had a couple great talks about it and I have to say: I felt deflated. Looking at FireCalc and running broad scenarios gave my wife and I reservations. It's more detailed than I'll post now, but if nothing else...

Growing up, I knew some people to whom any new citizen-tracking system or newfangled way of making purchases was the "mark of the beast". A national ID would totally be despised by them.

Wowzers. And how many people was that for? Thanks for the feedback!

Nothing stands out to me as incorrect about your numbers, but I'd be interested in hearing why your wife recommends waiting. More money in the long run to do awesome stuff with? Or does it just "feel" right to hold off a little longer?

I must be just a vert, because both of those things sound tiring. :D