Recent content by mja

And by a little cheaper, he means free :) At least where I am, which is 70ish miles from FinanceDude. Other than that, I've not seen any special "recession deals"; but I don't pay much attention to advertising if I can help it.

OMG, they didn't target a handout to people who were able to *retire* *early*? I'm shocked; shocked, I tell you!

I'm in a target 2025 fund for the most part, so they'll do that for me as time marches on :) I have those thoughts about my GF's VA. Fortunately we moved it to Fidelity in early 08, changing it from 100% stock to 75% at the time. I was unsuccessful at convincing her to go further than that...

Well, not exactly. To more closely mirror the "redhat experience", I'd recommend trying CentOS, since it's redhat without the redhat branding. There are large differences between administering Ubuntu and RedHat. Actually, that's not entirely true. OpenSolaris isn't quite the same as regular...

I want to party with MikeD :) It's been a few years since I've been to Knob Creek, but I'm itching to go again. Sadly, current machine gun prices would seriously impede getting to FIRE, or I'd own some.

I have limited experience since I've only lived in WI and we don't have anything like that, but is this type of tax common? How is it collected? I guess WI is happy enough with the sales tax when you buy the vehicle, and the (fairly-low at $70) annual registration fee for the vehicle. We make...

I hate to nitpick, but that's not strictly true, in my opinion. Picture a slacker employee, who doesn't get the job done, but continues to get paid. It wouldn't make any sense to keep that employee, but it's not unusual to see people who do exactly that at government jobs. Many (most?)...

Well, you better add this one to your recipe box: Recipes : Kwanzaa Celebration Cake : Food Network I wonder what/how much she was drinking when she came up with that.

I assume you mean edged out for second place. They both trail Sandra Lee by a large margin.

We just moved the better-half's variable annuity(*) to Fidelity and we're in the free look period until May 12th. I wasn't aware that during the free look period (in my state) Fidelity holds the money in a money-market equivalent. So, similar to you, I'm in the odd position of hoping for a...

Don't want to hijack the thread, but do you have a source for this? I suspect you're characterizing this as a bit "easier" than it really is, but I'm always interested in being more informed about the technologies on which I make my living.

Yeah, different strokes for different folks. I should point out that my father is quite happy there; I'm just more of a cabin-in-the-woods kind of guy.

My father lives there. I visited after he built (1999/2000) and haven't been back. If you like golf, swimming pools and especially suburban sprawl, you'll like it :) Of course, I was in my late 20's when I visited, so it was unlikely to interest me at all, but I *know* I wont want to live...

CFB- I know this doesn't work in your situation, but I could just print what I need to at w*rk. Good environmental ethics, bad w*rk ethics. :) I'd probably do that, if I didn't work for the state. I hardly ever print anything, and given the economies of scale for their printing vs my own... I...

I know it's awfully green/PC of me, but I don't do this. I kinda hate the thought of tossing out something that large just because it ran out of ink. I chose our current printer based on the cost of the replacement cartridges, and I'm willing to pay $20 every 3-6 months for a new cartridge...