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Off & on rain all day so we stayed inside and I watched some videos on new features in Lightroom (way cool stuff if you're into that) and did a backup on the new PC, and updated one of our old Garmin GPS units. It took a big part of the day on the old PC so I'll do the other one tonight and let...

At 74 now it's been quite a while since I've been asked that question. But I retired at 52 from a public safety job, everyone knew it, and "early retirement" is expected. With some rare exceptions you really don't want 65-year-old police officers or firefighters still working. It's a young...

Busy day. Drove DW to a 9:30 Physical Therapy appointment (she has a lot of back pain and it's painful for her to drive) then back home, then to a 2:00 Dr. appointment. We drove the truck both trips because the truck passenger seat is more comfortable than the Honda for her. Then when we got...

We use a Dell E525w all-in-one color laser that we've had for years, maybe a decade. I don't think they even make them anymore. We've even used the fax function a couple of times. And for color photos we have a Canon Pro 100 that uses eight rather expensive cartridges but the prints are gallery...

I'm reading two books sort of in parallel. One is a refresher, Scott Kelby's "Lightroom Classic" about Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, the actual full name of the software. I'd laid off photography for a couple of years due partially to (in hindsight) sticking with an old slow computer for far too...

If you're unwilling to tell them off that would be my second option. I'm a fan of writing old-school hard-copy physical letters. They're harder to ignore than phone calls or email, and if you send it registered there is proof that they received it, which makes it harder still to ignore. They...

If you're in a position that you won't need credit in the foreseeable future like me, I'd tell them to pound sand. Go ahead and "ruin my credit". I seriously doubt that one unpaid bill will ruin anyone's credit. It might ding it a few points for a year or two, but "ruin it"? I don't think so.

Today was a follow-up appointment with the cardiologist, who listened to my heart & lungs and pronounced me healthy for the next six months. I think that's how it works, because that's when my next appointment is.

Another field to consider is law enforcement, which besides the obvious has all sorts of supporting roles that are crucial in investigating and prosecuting crimes. I retired from a job that didn't exist when I was hired, that of a computer forensic examiner. That's a specialty on it's own now...

Finally cut out and removed a tree root that was an obstruction to lawn mowing. It cost me a reciprocating saw blade because of the rock that turned out to be behind it, but I finally go the thing out. The tree is a volunteer and I hope the wind blows it down anyway. It'll be easier to cut up if...

Spending more time on hobbies, radio control model airplanes and photography. More recently though the limitations have been either my or my wife's physical limitations of back issues for both of us, and cardiac and shoulder issues for me. Recently though we bought a new and much faster PC and...

In early afternoon it was finally dry enough to finish mowing the back yard from the halfway job I did yesterday. Oh, and for the last couple of days I was thinking unkind thoughts about the ancestry of the people who work at Frontier Communications, our landline phone and DSL ISP, because...

No aurora for us, it's been overcast and off & on rain for the last week. This early afternoon was dry enough for me to mow the front and half the back before the rain clouds came in. I do like the battery lawn mower, but wish the batteries would last longer. Oh well, I guess that will happen...

I've had consistent good luck with the HP wireless mice, they seem to last two or three years before wearing out and getting erratic in behavior. I can't imagine what wears out in a wireless mouse besides the battery, but apparently something does. But they don't cost enough to get obsessed...

The book "War Beneath the Sea" by Peter Padfield, about submarine conflict in WWII. It looks to be a serious history book on the topic. If you've ever seen the inside of a WWII submarine (I had the opportunity to tour the Torsk in Baltimore Harbor) those guys had big brass ones. And the current...

Thank you for that write-up. Hopefully it'll save someone from making a fatal mistake.

Had a late AM Dr. appointment, then drive to a MD pharmacy to pick up the prescription (I live in WV). The prescribing doc is licensed in MD so WV pharmacies cannot accept the prescription for a controlled drug. On the way back home I stopped at McDonald's and indulged in my Monthly Day Of...

It depends on state law. In MD (where I'm most familiar with exactly what the law is) as long as the light is either green or yellow when you enter the intersection, then you're legal to continue on through. If the light is red at the instant you enter the intersection, that's a violation...

In a city, yes, but not outside city limits.

I took a similar position. Not because of the school, but I was majoring in Criminal Justice and headed for a career in law enforcement, which I did get. But at the time (early 1970's) no law enforcement agency that I knew of would even talk to you about employment if there was even a hint of...

Okay, I've gone over to the "Dark Side" in the discussion of electric vs. ICE on OPE (outdoor power equipment). With the "high lift" blade on the Milwaukee battery-electric lawn mower it's just as good as the Toro or Honda's I've used before, but much quieter, lighter, and easier to handle. This...

I once thought as you do, but then we moved from an area with strictly enforced zoning to WV. So much depends on the area, the situation, the people involved, and other intangibles. Here in this part of WV, the county voters in their infinite wisdom have twice rejected zoning in the 20 years...

It was finally dry enough to mow the back yard with the new Milwaukee battery mower. It's definitely nice to not have to wear ear plugs, and the self-propel motors do a much better job than Toro's "personal pace" method. That was the major incentive to buy it so that makes it worthwhile. With...

That's the problem with people like that, they simply cannot forego immediate gratification if there is a way - any way - to satisfy that desire RIGHT NOW. As others suggested the most the OP should do is pay for a fee-only financial advisor or Dave Ramsey's course. The OP's friend is Ramsey's...

That's what we did too, MS Office Home and Student I think it's called. It only has Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint, which is more than we need since being retired we have no need of PowerPoint. I'm debating whether to even use Outlook since DW is comfortable now with Thunderbird. It works...