The My Bucket's Got a Hole In It Complaint thread
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You should see if there is a tutorial for that... but otherwise keep practicing and eventually you get better at it...
Get it... you are not good a feeling stuff... "feel well"... practice feeling...
Nope...
Ugh... that was bad even by my standards...
Well, bad puns and humor aside, I hope you feel better.
Beagle puppies
Hmmm... interesting sculpture concept. Are you sure your recent comments about Dr. Seuss aren't still affecting your vision of reality? New book title: "One Two, One Two And This Is A Monster Too".
However, what I'm really afraid of, is that Dr. Seuss memes have not tempered your vision of reality at all.
I am sleepy.
Not sure why.
Haha! I got you there... I have no vision of reality!... All is but a construct of the sleepless vision of a madman's cat's fevered hallucination !
complaint fooled by the wordage on an amazon product. thought i was buying an under monitor usb hub, turns outs it just usb charging ports, cant actually connect keyboard and mouse thru it.
got dreams of going for a banana smoothie tomorrow. dunno if sbux still makes em
i like the sbux pbj lunch. comes with a mozz stick. apple slices, baby carrots, raisinettes. 1/2 pbj sammich
i dont understand how they squeeze juice out of cranberries. is not a juicy berry.
Worthy of note: All this recent talk of Dr. Seuss and now I found out that my new podiatrist's name will be Dr. Susz. Pronounced (you guessed it) "Seuss".
I really want to see his waiting room
i has to get up for work in less than 12 hours. i shoulda watched some utoob videos on how to use the 3d printer. oh well. next week. i didnt do a single render this week. would be silly to lose interest after 99 productlib pages.
Tablet pc is so slow that i see a message that Daz cannot load personalized data.
now i have less than 10 hours to sleep. the pressure of trying to fall asleep makin it harder to sleep.
page96. we should be seeing the near end of thread traffic. lol
You will definitely have to tell us what it looked like or, better yet, take a picute lol
+1
Apparently I have been bashing W10 too much and as a result, powers that be have removed my account from Outlook... Even the forum keeps giving me gloudflare errors...
At least I still have my trusty "dumb" Nokia and text messages
Not everybody retires because they're old. It may just be coincidence. That's how it will likely be for me.
He may be looking forward to travelling the world. Or maybe he wants to coach soccer, or be a music teacher, or (hehe) a 3D graphic artist. He may have done it earlier but wanted to get the most payable from Social Security, and so waited until 66 for that reason. Or like me, wanted to keep working, saving, and investing longer, so as to have more freedom in retirement.
I did the numbers for myself. Social Security payments, if they were my only source of income in retirement, would not be enough to keep me out of the poverty level. Not even if I waited until I was 67, the age for maximum benefits. So I'm working an aggressive plan to avoid poverty sponsored under threat of force by my fellow taxpayers. And if I have enough resources to "do stuff", well that's all the better. I've been working and saving hard and I'm at the point that if I were 67 right now, I'd be able to retire without SocSec, so I'm doing okay so far.
But inflation is growing by scary leaps and bounds. And my taxes surely will go up too. Those two things really can turn a comfortable retirement into a stress-filled horror show of nervousness and doubt. So I'm gonna stay in the game for a bunch more years. And I'm gonna avoid Starbucks because it's too expensive. Besides that, I can order Kona coffee from the grower in Hawaii and it's more delicious and STILL cheaper than Starbucks.
4 1/2 hours left to sleep before work. lookin forward to a latte
...some of us had little choice. For myself it was two types of arthritis and circulatory issues. For most of my work life I've been in warehousing and shipping. a very physically demanding occupation. in my last few years it became tougher and tougher to stand at a shipping station for several hours, lift even moderately heavy boxes, bend down. climb stock ladders. etc. Were it not that part of my job involved computer work at a desk, I would not have made it to 20 years there. I was in such bad physical shape that after three tries, I was certified disabled as this was pretty much my life's work experience (save for those few years in CD multimedia development back in the late 80s through early 90s, a technology now obsolete).
A year and a half ago my SSD benefits converted to retirement. Yeah, it's definitely been a struggle. Fortunately in a city known for high housing costs I was able to clear a wait list for a low income apartment near the city centre so much of what I need is within walking distance or a short tram/bus trip. Still it's not a desirable retirement by any means. The company didn't offfer a retirement plan (not even a good health plan) and I never made enough to have more than maybe one weeks pay in savings for emergencies, so SS retirement is my only income.
However for now I probably have the best account balance I've seen in a long time thanks to the stimulus payments (bugger, finally have some money and prices for GPUs as well as new CPUs and memory are through the roof again thanks to a combination of factors).
Ah well at least I have a roof over my head, food in the fridge, and power to run my systems. and better medical coverage than when I was working, So not all bad. . Just have to aim a bit lower with the goals.
I don't even want to think about retirement... I never worked long enough to qualify for disability. But my husband makes too much for SSI. Which is fine for right now. But with all my family aging and distant, I worry about anything ever happening to him. It literally keeps me up some nights. Luckily, we are planning for retirement and putting away the max for company matching each month. We are technically behind for what's advised, but still ahead of many our age.
no more time to sleep.
i have 2 years to retirement. i put 25 percent in 401k. job matches 4 percent. the 25 really does lower the income taxes every year.
On Retirement: I was essentially semi-retired at 53. My long time partner had been sick for most of the years we were together his medical expenses wiped out most of my savings. He died in the early '90s. Then my high priced consultant career evaporated in the tech crash of the early 2000's, that and I was over 50 (over 50 seems to be a "you're irrelevant" age for computer people). But I'd already done my world travelling and I still had lots of "things" of value that could be turned into cash. However, in the end I did have to sell my home, motorcycle and car (in that order). But I'm not disappointed or grumpy about it. I lived for a few years in Florida staying with a nearly blind elderly aunt until she died. Her home was a large beautiful, oak tree shaded, modern Frank Lloyd Wright style home on a hill (rare in Florida) overlooking the beautiful Indian River Lagoon in Melbourne Florida. It even had a big basement (also rare in Florida) with multiple rooms. Her friends used to joke that I was the "kept man" living in the basement. Just the two of us in that house for several years. I was the handyman, lawn mower, house sitter during hurricanes, and driver. I still had my car and would chauffer my aunt around town and back and forth between various Florida cities where all her children lived. And I kept in shape by riding bicycle 10 or 20 miles nearly every day around the city. (excellent bike routes) in the Melbourne area.
After she died I came back to my home town in extreme western NY State, where I have a nice sized 1-bedroom apartment. I had a small income repairing PC computers for everyday people. My car expenses finally got too high so I let that go too. Having sold many of my most precious things I had less to find places for. I don't have a lot of money for travel, but I did a lot of travel back in my day. For a while the only place left on my travel bucket list was a visit to St. Petersburg, Russia via a Northsea cruise, to attend a symphony or opera and visit the Hermitage museum. But then the politics of the area changed for the worse. So I satisfied myself with a couple of CD recordings and a large two volume coffeetable book set showing items in the Hermitage museum.
I'm glad I did my travelling (a lot of it on motorcycle) while still in my "mid-life crisis" era. I was still young and healthy & sort of sub-wealthy. I had a ball. And I have memories and stories forever. Now I live on Social Security alone, along with the piddley little bit I still get from a PC repair job now and then. But I have enough to eat properly, I have enough to cover basic medical treatment. I can arrange transport when I need it. I have sold most of my "most excellent", big ticket, art objects, but I still have a nice collection of beautiful artworks (paintings, bronzes, gemstones, oriental rugs), that in desperation could be sold but I am content living in my clean little apartment, in a small town, in a calm area of the country that is not perpetually freezing, or burning, drowning, shaking, falling into sinkholes, dealing with poisonous fumes from shoreline red algae, drying up, or being blown away. If I stay away from the politics of this area and avoid the news my life is calm and orderly. And I'm not a gregarious person, I'm a quiet loner, happy with isolation, able to keep myself unbored.
Could I use more money? Yep. Would I be happier. Maybe, but with old-body problems many of the advantages of wealth become irrelevant.
I do not regret any of my decisions or actions that led to this state of affairs. It's been an interesting if not wonderful life.
My frequent expressions of "Wheee..." and my phrase "mini-adventure" are heartfelt. Little things become more poignant to me. When I had money it was; go here, go there, buy this, buy that, look for the pot of gold, rush, rush, rush. I don't really miss those days.
Had a lot of fun today at the expence of our IT.
A W10 "update" that installed yesterday had disabled my Outlook account and even though I was able to receive emails normally, Outlook didn't "know" who I was and didn't let me send anything, the posts just ended up in "Outbox" not going anywhere and none of the account related tools inside Outlook worked.
Let's see if the mumbling red-faced IT guy gets some answers from MS and manages to fix the issue before I go back, as today I started my vacation. Or, if my keycard even works when I try to get back
Microsoft and a few other big companies were cyber attacked yesterday.