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Glenn Ford was a stage name too. According to Wikipedia, his real first name was ... Gwyllyn.

I just opened the bills for our Erie auto/home/umbrella premiums. Homeowners is up $180 to $1,200. Auto and umbrella are unchanged. In this environment, I'm OK with that.

Dad had dementia, but he had moments of clarity. During one of them he came to the realization that he was driving in his condition, and he was horrified.

Like Sengsational, I never had a magic age or number. I got lucky, landed a good position and started enjoying work. Magically, 20 years rolled by and I got old enough and financially secure enough to retire. DW was less happy on the job and left at 55, five years before I did. I probably could...

More like she drives OK. I have a lazy eye, and for sure my depth perception isn't what it ought to be. Fortunately my wife "drives shotgun" when we're riding together and she is happy to let me know when we're getting too close to the car in front of us. :cool:

I talked recently with a Fidelity rep who suggested my bond portfolio was too complex (I hold a lot of muni bonds). A dozen years ago another rep looked over a larger bond portfolio and said, "I like what you've done here." I'm reminded of an acronym we had in the newspaper biz, OAO (one...

If you venture into the Camargue, be sure to visit Aigues-Mortes, a walled medieval city that was the embarkation point for Louis IX's troops in the 13th century for the Seventh and Eighth Crusades. It looks like a movie set for Robin Hood. We stayed overnight there in a little pension and dined...

DW and took the cruise quite a while ago. Our itinerary started in Lyon, a city that many consider the gustatory capital of France. If I were to take it again I would spend a couple days in Lyon. We sailed up the Saone to Beaune, a great Burgundy wine town with a medieval look. We had tastings...

LastPass seems to be a popular hacker target, FWIW.

We took a pretty upscale cruise a few years ago on the Silverseas line, a repositioning trip from Seward to Tokyo. The amenities were nice but the other passengers seemed stuffy and even a little unfriendly. Maybe we were the riff raff on that trip.

Here's one from ... yikes, 50 years ago.

I'm partial to a similar tune from Leo Kottke (who once characterized his voice as sounding like geese farts on a muggy day).

On the fidelity platform, you click the "news and documents" tab after selecting the bond you're interested in. From there you'll see a link under a header labeled "primary market documents."

I wouldn't consider it standard verbiage, and I always read the offering statement before investing in a bond. Then I try to find any outside news reports about the debtor's financial condition ... although those are becoming more scarce with the decline of newspapers. My approach is that bond...

That was Glenn Ford, not John. Personally I think Ford was miscast, but he was a hot box office star at the time. And the movie was a big hit.

I don't think I posted to this thread before, but if it's a duplicate, I apologize. I recently bought an 8-season boxed DVD set of the USA series "Burn Notice." It is such a well-put together series, a semi-spy thriller with lots of action and an irreverent flavor. Jeffrey Donavan is Michael...

This is a global phenomenon, according to an NOAA researcher. The sweltering seas are proving perilous for the world’s corals, living structures that support roughly 25 percent of all known marine species. When stressed by rising temperatures, corals expel the vibrant photosynthetic algae that...

I do some volunteer work for a nonprofit Madison radio station called WORT. They have some great genre-specific programming, including a Saturday night show called "Two for the Blues." It's accessible on the station's online programming archives. wort Archive

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The Hot Tuna reference reminds me of a song they covered by Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell called "How Long Blues." It was a popular tune in the late 1920s by the duo, who were based in Indianapolis. They had great success until the moody Blackwell split with Carr over money and song credits...

Hopkins and T-Bone Walker were contemporaries from rural east Texas who both knew Blind Lemon Jefferson as children. It's interesting how the two diverged in style as both gained immortality in the blues genre. Edit: Uh, make that immortality.

I bought that album in about 1970. Kaukonen has a concert scheduled at a local venue in May. I heard another one about that time called "Jamming with Edward." The Stones put it out with Ry Cooder and Nicky Hopkins while Keith Richards was in rehab. To me, Cooder is about the most versatile...

West Helena, Ark., has a blues festival in August. You might want to add that to your intinerary. I've never been to it, but it looks interesting. In the '80s I went to several Chicago Blues Festivals. Little Milton was there one year.