What did you do today 2025

Went for a walk in the park, lubricated the garage door hinges, ate salad for lunch, played board game online with my group, texted with friends and family, warned a friend not to do anything stupid while she attended a demonstration against Tesla, messaged my physician about an erroneous MyChart entry.
 
Took doggie to Playday to spend the day with his friends so I can spend the day with my friends. We are going to the Monument Inn in La Porte, TX for a ROMEO lunch of wonderful Gulf seafood. Mine is the little guy in the pack. They are waiting for the whistle to blow (LOL) to kick off the day's activities.
 

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The day is young. It’s only 10am. But I wanted to report that I am at the gym for the first time since early January. That doesn’t mean I haven’t exercised at all but definitely not the whole body workout I get here. The good news is my weight today is the same as on December 30 so I’ve successfully kept off the 7-8 pounds I had lost prior to that. I just haven’t lost any more but that’s okay.
 
I called the pension plan administration and they emailed me the form for electing retiree medical and dental.
I have coverage from my work hours that gets banked, and it runs out at the end of the month. I was getting a little nervous and she said it had supposedly mailed out, but I was not interested in waiting until the last minute.
We can choose from a low deductible plan for $1360 a month or a higher deductible plan for $1188.
The Delta Dental plans are from $55 to $99 per month additional.
They will deduct costs directly from the pension if I elect that. At the first of the year I will start medicare and it drops down to $857 or $771 and provides me a supplement.
DW is 60 so that will be our numbers going forward in 9 months. When she starts medicare the cost for the supplement for both of us is currently $354.
It is a Humana Group Medicare Advantage plan, not thrilled about that so we will be constantly shopping as things change.
it is just another part of things getting real in regards to retirement.
 
I put off doing my taxes for another day while I stared at the ocean and listened to music.
 
Traveling through Oklahoma City today. I went through the OKC National museum today.It was quite moving. I was quite moved by how the people of the city and nation pulled together. Next month will be the 30 year anniversary of the bombing.
 
The weather was a bit drizzly in the morning, but I went out anyway to check out a new folding bicycle. I couldn’t do a test ride because the roads were still wet. but it was still nice to fold and unfold one, and talk to the bike shop guy. He gave me an idea of a mod for my current folding bike, so that may be a future project. On the way home, I decided to bring a pizza home since Pi Day is tomorrow (3/14) and I figured I would beat the lines. When I left the restaurant, the sun was shining so I dropped the top which immediately made me happy. Plus DH loved the pizza, so now we’re both happy!
 
This was the one day of the year that we make out the forms to claim our (equivalent of) Health Savings account money. I'm not sure what it's called but Old Megacorp puts so-much money in it and we automatically recover expenses during the year (stuff like supplement insurance premiums, MC pt B premiums, etc.).

BUT we always have co-pays or deductibles that we have to pay as well as drugs and dental. We could submit these any time, but we wait for a day (beginning of the next year) to "go back" and get as much as is left in the account.

It takes the better part of the morning and it's kind of a pain because it's all on paper. We could do it on the web site, but we can't figure it out. So it's pen and paper to the rescue.

We claimed over $6K. We'll see how much was actually left in the account when they send us the check in a couple or three weeks. Worth the effort but not a fun morning.
 
Mailed in my check to the IRS.

The celebrated Pi Day with a slice of great berry pie.

Why did Pi fail its driving test?

It didn’t know how to stop.
 
Finished my spring PM service on my tractor this morning. Oil and filter change, grease job, radiator clean up, replaced air filter, replaced a few bolts and tighten some others. Ordered a new tail wheel hub assembly.

Time for nap!
 
Yesterday was the first Friday projected to hit 70 degrees. I have had a long tradition (20+ years) of calling in sick and playing hooky from work on that day. This year I didn't have to play hooky but I still celebrated by talking my friends into playing hooky. We sat in the driveway having cocktails, throwing the ball for the dog and watching the ice go out on the river.
 
Yesterday, I smoked baby back ribs. I also pruned my roses. Today, I printed out my completed tax returns, which I will take to the post office on Monday.
 
Based upon my most recent health situation (but still planning on another 20 years) I finally decided to do something that I've been putting off for over a decade: simplifying our finances.

I spent about 4 hours every day for the past six days cleaning up and moving money around in a very messy, complicated set of checking, savings and investment holdings. Didn't sell anything mind you, but we just had money placed, invested, coming in and going out from way too many different avenues.

Before ER it made sense but things have settled down and we need something much, much cleaner so that DW can deal with it in the event I'm not able to help. "Why are the lease cars automatically paid out of savings account #3?" "I don't know, why do we even have three different savings accounts?." Three checking accounts? One credit card who's only job is to pay the cellphone bill? Some dividends go to one account, others to another, outside income to a third?

Automation of the above facilitates such nonsense as you never have to think about it, but it's incredibly cumbersome when you have to figure out what's going on.

Then I also cleaned up my disabled brother's accounts that were equally and needlessly complicated. IRAs all over the place, income coming from all kinds of places.

Still need a few more hours and then a lot of monitoring to make sure everything is going where it's supposed to, but a very satisfying and worthwhile endeavor!
 
Based upon my most recent health situation (but still planning on another 20 years) I finally decided to do something that I've been putting off for over a decade: simplifying our finances.

I spent about 4 hours every day for the past six days cleaning up and moving money around in a very messy, complicated set of checking, savings and investment holdings. Didn't sell anything mind you, but we just had money placed, invested, coming in and going out from way too many different avenues.

Before ER it made sense but things have settled down and we need something much, much cleaner so that DW can deal with it in the event I'm not able to help. "Why are the lease cars automatically paid out of savings account #3?" "I don't know, why do we even have three different savings accounts?." Three checking accounts? One credit card who's only job is to pay the cellphone bill? Some dividends go to one account, others to another, outside income to a third?

Automation of the above facilitates such nonsense as you never have to think about it, but it's incredibly cumbersome when you have to figure out what's going on.

Then I also cleaned up my disabled brother's accounts that were equally and needlessly complicated. IRAs all over the place, income coming from all kinds of places.

Still need a few more hours and then a lot of monitoring to make sure everything is going where it's supposed to, but a very satisfying and worthwhile endeavor!
We have a similar gemish of CCs, checking accts., and savngs accounts, etc. We set it up that way strategically. For instance our "major" CC just got compromised with a couple of fraudulent charges so it is being replaced. So glad we put the revolving charges on the other card(s) and do not have to contact everyone with a card change. Also nice to have an extra card (or three) to use in the 10 days it will take to get the new card.
 
Went to a family birthday party for the two grandnephews, whose birthdays are a few days apart in March. One is now 11 and the other 9. It's good to see everyone for a happy occasion once in a while.
 
Our LG ball ice maker quit working again. They are notorious for failing. Class action lawsuit pending. We pulled it out and it's frozen solid, so we defrosted it and cleaned it. Reinstalled and hope it works.

Ordered a new one just in case. $150.00 or so.
 
Went early to the high country looking for shed horns. I eat lunch in beautiful spot and put on about 7 miles. I found nothing but was a great day to be in the outdoors.

Doesn't sound like many but a lot of up and sideway walking.
 
Took an early bus up to the ski resort and made some turns. It has snowed a few inches every day for the past few days, so conditions were nice and soft in the trees and bumps.
 
Well today I watched my Badgers stink up the Big 10 championship game. Never thought they would be that terrible at 3's all at the same time but life goes on. Received my new lithium batteries and converted my old lead acid batteries over to the lithium and charged them up and took my golf cart for a good 5 mile ride to see how they performed and didn't lose a step in 5 miles now to see tomorrow without recharging if they can do it again was told when bought should easily get 30 miles per charge so me going to be running these hard the next few days.
 
Breakfast with friends, walked the dog a few times, watched the Players Championship tournament (tied and playoff tomorrow), walked my 10,000 steps. I even did some laundry! Nice day, nice weather, etc,
 
I decluttered purposefully! Visited my old martial arts school and gave a student who I knew from long ago a set of equipment, another specialized piece of equipment to bring to one of my former students there who now has his own school, another item to another guy who assisted when I taught, and the remaining equipment to the chief instructor. I didn’t accept money for any of this gear (no longer made after the shop closed). My satisfaction was in knowing that they would all be used by people who appreciate them.

Also the sun was shining after several days of rain, so I was happy to drive with the top down!
 
Another doctor appointment today. "Only" the back this time. Next week is more serious - looking at lymph nodes that looked "funny" last time.
 
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