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My one surviving parent is living in the house I was raised in around 20 minutes from me. But this is already a consideration in some ways. My sister moved back to Texas to move in with her and take care of things at the house (I take care of maintaining the finances, money, mom is currently...

Well. Covid proved to a lot of employers that they could, in fact, have many of their jobs get done "from anywhere". Which now also means "done cheaper in Costa Rica or India". Then you add in that all the big companies for the last year and a half have been pushing people into training AI...

His take on it (my cardiologist) was essentially... "This would be a great heart rate if you were a regular runner and in great shape.... we both know how much you weigh..." So it was something to watch. Never had Afib, although oddly my watch also checks for signs of that too. Only time...

I have to watch things because my cardiologist is all kinds of cautious on me because my resting heart rate is around 52-55, and it dips to the low 40's when I sleep. It's why I wear a "smart watch". Been told if I ever see a number starting with a 3 we have to have a pacemaker talk.

Key note if taking a magnesium supplement, if you have a low resting heart rate be careful! They are a low tier beta blocker, which can cause your heart rate to drop.

From the "shit I have in a feed because it was involved in all my grandparents dying" file... https://ground.news/daily-briefing/new-hope-for-alzheimers-groundbreaking-harvard-study-finds-lithium-reverses-brain-aging-the-boston-globe

It's an invitation to a round of Rodeo... Grab her hair shove it up her ass when she reacts negatively say "Your sisters ass was tighter" See how many seconds you can keep riding. Unrelated :

I have to agree with @ToeMissile on this one. If your line of work is anything like mine the first stop when job shopping is your personal network and calling people to see who in your industry is hiring. This also usually helps you get the right in with the right people. Now a days any...

So we have folks calling other people "boo" and "sport". I wonder when we'll escalate to "friend" and "buddy"? Let me check a few my achievements while I have been lurking on this MMO LARP board for years now... Gutted to the studs and rebuilt two bathrooms in my house. Gutted and...

I think I explained my reasons for wanting to keep doing something I see as useful in retirement. I saw how decline hit my grandfather who raised me once he stopped having anything active to be doing. I know I'm like him, so I suspect I will need to find something to keep myself feeling...

How about this stat. Median 401k balance for Americans with age brackets... Ages 40–49: $154,212 Ages 50–59: $252,850 Ages 60+: $210,724 59% of adults in the US couldn't cover a $1,000 emergency without going into debt.

TBH, If I detach and let logical pragmatic Haus decide there's a very solid argument for East Oklahoma, or dare I even say it Arkansas. (I have co-workers in Arkansas who have made a few feigned attempts to luring me up there.)

I think it's more my ingrained upbringing, and the desire to poke fun at Oklahoma which is bred into every Texan....

That's a mighty low bar you're setting there sir... ;)

You know I'm right here and can see this, right?

Ours became the home of our "big ass F shaped desk" and our home office out of which I work. We still have a dining table in one end, and I admit we reconfigure it around the holidays to host Thanksgiving/Xmas at our house. I don't know of any in person meetings from the forums. Honestly, if...

This is one of the considerations in "project Peaches" which is to buy land away from Dallas and build on it. But I still have most of my family, and even more of the wife's family who are around DFW, so we're kinda trying not to move that far away. That and I don't know if I could deal with...

In my neighborhood in Dallas the lots are around 1/3rd acre. Houses originally built as 2400-2600 sq ft houses. Now every person who moves out the house gets snatched up, then tear it down and drop a 4000 sq ft 2 story McMansion on it. Although the last couple of those they have done have...

I did Cabinets To Go when we redid our kitchen around a decade ago. If you have a basic nail gun and moderate competency using it then assembly of them is pretty easy peasy. Once I got an idea of the scope of the project through the guy at the CtG store showed me how he had a contractor who...

I'm watching it play out in real time with my mother right now. 75, and never really planned/saved for any retirement. Only has her Social Security. Saved by the grace of : That my grandmother put the house we were all raised in into a trust so that she'd have a roof over her head She had...

I was the SFDC admin/deployment guy/everything person for a small company I worked at around 8 years ago. Found I could manage the SFDC stuff ok since I treated it as just an DB app with a very dynamic front end to work against. Learned a TON about how our business operated in helping move...

That is a dangerous spot for me. There's an old bit of wisdom I was given "Don't make the hobby you enjoy into a job, it ruins enjoying the hobby" and I'm working against that right now even since I am also looking at puttering in my hobby and trying to sell things in retirement.....

In the spreadsheet I mentioned I do exactly this. Since it's attached to my budget spreadsheet I have a very acute picture of my monthly expenses, which then rolls to yearly, and I have a "how long do you REALLY think you're gonna live" field which I'm optimistically setting at 90 right now...

I have a spreadsheet I'm using to generally coordinate all the things involving this and there's one column for "If Social Security still exists" and one for "Social Security blew the fuck up and you're on your own". My dream would be that social security still exists and pays out what it says...

Yeah, I have been seriously weighing that as my "last act" to lead into retirement. I'm just not as sure yet how much my consultative cybersecurity skillset will lean into independent consultancy. But I have been poking around looking. I give a lot of high level cybersecurity talks to...

Some trends I'm seeing emerge right now that might be multi-industry : Middle Management, who previously did a lot of "watch the dashboards, make sure the lights are all green" are being looked at HARD. Because if they're really coaching/developing needed workers cool, but if they're just...

I'm at the point of literally thinking "Find a way to pile up as much money as I can in the next decade and then fuck off to the middle of nowhere to be Crazy Ol Haus the guy who makes stupid metal doodads", then take up a hobby of yelling at clouds.

That does bring up another aspect of it.... What to do in your retirement? I know people who are "I'm going to vacation, travel, and laze around" and I don't see myself being happy like that. My grandfather raised me and as I've gotten older I see more of his behavior in me than I ever...

Saw this today : And now I'm back into a mode of thinking about what's going to happen in around a decade with my wife and I are done with all aspect of the modern work-a-day world. Looking at projections I see recommendations that you need 10 years worth of your expenses saved up in some...

Feels bad man..... https://www.aol.com/finance/quarter-gen-x-ve-laid-152156619.html At 56, I can attest to every one of these stats except the laid off one (thankfully and knocking on wood) Highlights : • 24% of Gen Xers laid off in the last decade still don’t have jobs. • 49% say they make...

I don't know of anybody using it for face wrinkles. But I do know someone who gets it on their scalp to , of all things, reduce migraine frequency. Heaven knows how that f*ing works, but it seems to.

If you take 35 north from Dallas into Oklahoma, around the Turner Falls area you can see where we've also done that on a smaller scale, just sliced through what should be rocky hills/baby mountains because I-35 will not be denied. Same in some places in Arkansas as well that I've seen doing...

Went to see this today. It ranks a solid "meh". Better than any of the MCU stuff since Endgame I've seen (with the exception of the Sony produced No Way Home, which I liked) I'll give it a 6 or 6.5 or so....If I were more of a FF fan it'd probably be a 7-7.5 . The retro 60's vibe worked...

And remember kids, if you trim back all the bush around it, it'll look bigger!

The problem was this held through Endgame. But post endgame the comic nerds have stopped being the backstop of reliable viewers. This was probably, IMHO, a combination of them just going too deep into "esoteric characters few have heard of" (looking at you Shang-chi) and unfaithfulness to the...

Veep and Idiocracy need to be granted their own special category of "Films and shows which STARTED as a comedy and BECAME documentaries"

Don't hypothetical yourself out of ever really knowing. Pursue it, enjoy things, see where they lead. Worst case scenario you have to have a talk about how you can't take living in LA. best case scenario happily ever after happens for you. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take, (and...

They are, and this has been going on for a long time. Apparently the "smart people" haven't considered the BLS stats reliable for over a decade, but today's revisions are just a new extreme watermark. This is the biggest set of revisions since the 2020 crash.