Well, it's Tuesday. I slept late again this morning, possibly because I'd slept so poorly the night before. Ingesting so much pasta after 8 PM is definitely not conducive to my getting a good night's sleep. Note to myself: don't do it again.
Because attendance had been so low at the party (which wasn't really a party), there was lots of food left over, mainly pasta. I worked for 4 hours yesterday, which means I had a bowl. Not a big one. It had red sauce. meh. Since I make my own at home, I'm a bit of a stickler about sauces, and I can tell you this one tasted like it had been poured right from the can.
The indoor dryer exhaust I bought requires a filter pad which needs to be changed. Individually, they last about 1.5 months. Sadly, they also cost $16 for two. Being the creative person I am, I'm going to improvise, using chair batting (very inexpensive) rather than the filters, which I think are pricey. I should be able to get 24 filters pads for $12.
And I started replacing the circuit boards on my treadmill yesterday. I was a bit leery at first since I've never done anything like this before. It turns out to be rather easy peasy. Taking a picture insure you plug everything back correctly, pictures like this. Oh, and wear gloves since the oils on your fingertips are not kind to circuit boards. Oh, and if you have a color printer, it doesn't hurt to print the pic off.
HuntleyBiGuy:
ReplyDeleteIt’s not that most people WANT to work longer, it’s that the HAVE to work longer because of retirement fund shortages.
Thanks for commenting. Republicans realized you're right, they're just trying to throw as much shit at the wall, hoping some will stick with their feeble minded base.
DeleteO.K. so the life expectancy in the US as of 2929 numbers (it has gotten shorter since these numbers) was 77.28 years. If you are no longer able to retire and collect SSA at 65 (or 66 or 67) where you could be expected to receive a benefit for 12.28 years and instead had to wait until you are 75 to be eligible for SSA payments where you expected payments would only be for 2.28 years that would be 10 years of benefit payments that would remain in the SSA fund. The repugs could then say, look, we saved Social Security, look at all the money left in the fund. I know the above is about as simplistic an example as you can imagine. But it paints a pretty good picture, I think, of what their plan is.
ReplyDeleteExcept Republicans don't want to say they saved Social Security. Big business doesn't like it and so they don't like it. They're already floating something similar to a 401k tied directly to Wall Street. That's the same idea the pushed when W was president
DeleteIt's probably going to take years and years, but it wouldn't surprise me if the Republican Party is extinct eventually, which of course they will bring on themselves.
ReplyDeleteI don't think it's going to take as long as you might expect.
DeleteI want to live long enough to see the GOP implode, though it kind of scares me what might emerge from that pile of rubbish!
ReplyDeleteI think it's going to be shattered into too many different piles of ashes to make any difference.
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