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Starlink launches from Vandenburg are awesome to watch - also seeing the booster fire up to land on "of course I still love you" about 8 minutes after launch. All you SoCal crew need to wander on out and watch the sky. I'm headed out here in La Quinta -

OK, maybe Google Lens has been out for a year or six and maybe I'm no kind of keeping up with the times. HOWEVER - if you haven't given it a try - do so now. Took a picture of the shoe on my foot and it identified the maker and model name. We were out and bought some cool older design Corelle...

So about a dozen years ago I was having a burrito with the honey and keeled over. V-fib. She did CPR and kept my body and brain mostly present, several days in a couple hospitals and an implanted pacing/shocking unit later I was back on the street. Time has passed. Several ablations, A-fib has...

So we're going round and round here. Started buying 6 month T-Bills on almost a weekly basis back in 10/22, shooting for a 6 month ladder. Currently have 20 T-bills and have moved them all to Fidelity and are buying new issues as they come up and saying "yes" to auto-roll. Someone here shared...

Help me spend my money (in the best possible way)! We have fiber internet delivering 200Mbps - and they claim they just upped us to 500Mbps for no extra cost! So we got on Ookla Speedtest and found we are only getting 94MBps upload and down. This with a Netgear AC1750 (R6350) modem/router that...

Not everything - but we are moving all our T-bills to Fidelity. Keeping them all in one account so it's clean and simple. I had no problems with VG are far as buying T-bills weekly, but Fidelity offers auto roll-over and VG doesn't as far as I know - should make life easier yet. I've never...

Was swapping out some shoes today and realized I haven't had a broken shoelace in years, even though they get mighty tugs. Seems like in the old days the laces would wear and break at the shoe eyes and it was common for my tenny-runners to have at least one broken and knotted together lace. Now...

I expect most replies will be of the "their problem, not yours" variety, but hope to learn by some responses: So we are selling a F&C rental property for $450k, owner carry. An offer has come with a $100k cash - like dollar bills - down payment. We have no need for that much paper cash. The...

At an airpark garage/estate sale. Bought a boxO'cwap because it had two clamps in it. They are about 1 3/8" by 5 5/8" and 5 1/8" interior diameter. Brass.

There is just no way that a phishing attempt like this isn't trying to select only the most gullible and uninformed of us all: Ρayment: Billing Issue (881150) Ρrime Аccount-Update 80524 <donotreply1FV4YO20P.M6wTcZCVL93UUcr1@m******a9nea1.actionse.com.br> (my asterisks, 'cause nobody needs to...

Yard sale find for a buck. 46 of them, 1/2"x1" aluminum spacer, steel screw and a stainless? ball. Better yet, what can I do with them? Rant: What @#$!! idiot designs power strips? Just about any wall wart or Alexa transformer or Iphone charge transformer neatly takes up two spaces, often by...

I know some of you are looking for a place to buy - here's one that will happily occupy your time bringing it back - looks like an upscale area. As someone said, you can get your Aunty Mame on sweeping down the staircase. Dahling. Oh. and your skin won't be drying out either...

I like looking at houses for sale. Much cheaper than actually buying them and doing the work that they need. Now and again something just tickles me - like this place. The location is wrong for the roof and materials (desert wouldn't foster the mold inside), the execution could have been...

Just got a Wells Fargo card bill and noted that they charge a modest 14.5% interest on purchases and 25.5% on cash advances. Was thinking that was pretty reasonable credit card interest and then thought about people coming unglued at real estate interest approaching 6%. Guess it is just what...

Um, signed on to Morningstar this morning to see what condition our portfolio is in and initially didn't just pop on. When I did get on via computer I got this message: "Legacy Portfolio Manager While you still have access to Portfolio Manager today, it will be retired for Basic users in the...

Credit Sesame just sent word my Transunion score dropped 57 points. zero late or missed payments over 9 year credit history one hard inquiry back in march of 2021 poor account mix (credit cards only, no other debt - our homes and cars are all paid for) ****13% credit utilization**** This still...

Where we track it it was $1779 on 11/3. Today, 11/11, Philharmonics are $1866.

So this morning Morningstar reports that we are up $55,000 from last week at this time. I know, I know - it comes and goes, ebbs and flows, the savvy ones just take a glance every month or so. We record daily, just as we've done with all rental and other Quicken enter-able incomes and expenses...

I guess I don't read other's expressions well. I mean, I think I do, but I have a heck of a time deciphering messages that are loaded up with emojis. My gal will spend minutes collecting a series of emojis to answer someone on a text message and sometimes sends me a string that means something...

Been feeling pretty mortal lately. Suffice it to say that while mobile slim lucky and lacking in real bad habits the chances are good that I get switched off much earlier rather than later. My gal of 43 years and I, unmarried, have no kids. I'm not filled with philanthropic zeal. Gal and I live...

Seems we may be in the market for a new Mazda CX5, and I've heard of people flying to a different state (like Montana?) to buy a new car at a decent discount from their home state. Any dealer suggestions? We are in Oregon right now. Our 2017 CX5 just lost a contest with a 1996 GMC Sierra. His...

So we, being of discerning minds, opted to spend some time in green Oregon vs.125 degree La Quinta California. So now Oregon lakes and rivers are way low, the fields are about a month early in dryness, the state has been visited by 117 degree (whaaaat? - Oregon?) days...

I love Oregon. The local paper notes that: "At 1:52 pm, a large tree fell across the front end of a Ford Ranger and ripped the front bumper off and shattered the windshield on Highway 22 at Milepost 9. About 20 people exited their vehicles and two had large chainsaws and had the tree removed...

I like looking at real estate and ran across a truly strange place today. Someone with some skills put outrageous woodwork into/onto a plain Jane in the middle of flat desert. Not lipstick on a pig, more like the finest upscale designer wear and jewelry on Greta the lunch lady. Strange mix...

So who all is in? Per normal habit I'll do without any alcohol in January - entertaining seeing just how easy or hard it is to change habits. Anyone else doing something similar after a month or so of perhaps some overindulgence? Or just for fun?