Downsizing

On the way back from the tundra last week, the Old Lady made a deal for our Retirement Home. Last year we went from a 2br house to a 1br apt. Looks like in a couple of years we will go to a small travel trailer (18-20ft single axle). At least it's not so small you have to step outside to change your mind.

I guess the plan is that we will live in it while volunteering at National Parks. That will give us something to do in our retirement.

I'm going to retire next year, only I haven't figured out what I will retire from!! I haven't had a real job in a long time and so I won't have any problem transitioning to retirement.

Random Thought

Had a thought (and yes it was painful and you know who you are) last night will watching TV. Someone mentioned reincarnation and I wondered if that would be the ultimate recycling?? There are several lines of thought on this. Atheists would say that when you die that's it, it's over. Bible-Bangers would say you either go to heaven or hell. And those that believe in reincarnation say you keep coming back until you get it right. Which is a never-ending cycle when you don't know what you did wrong in the previous life.

Creationism; Definition Thereof

Found this on another blog and decided to save it and put in on my blog. The statement on the picture so obviously true that no more needs to be said.

Hiatus is over, damn!!

Got back to Hotlanta last night and this morning was reminded of how annoying car alarms are. I had forgotten while UP on the tundra as you never hear them there. Even tho it is Fall, it feels like summer, more like summer than it did this summer UP on the tundra. The longest stretch of warm weather was 4 days of 80 degrees or more.

It may take me awhile to remember how to do this blogging thing. Reminds of an old non-PC joke. 'Why don't they let (insert ethnicity and/or nationality here) have more than 10 minutes for coffee breaks? Answer, it takes too long to retrain them!

Hiatus

I will put this blog on hiatus while I go spend the summer on the tundra. Or maybe a more accurate term would be muskeg. I know my readers will be sad (both of them) but I will not have internet access while up on the tundra.

Sun Worship

This strikes me as a strange time to worship the sun. Shouldn't it be at sunrise or when the sun is directly overhead or even sunset?? Then again this is Brookhaven which is an up-scale neighborhood. Also I don't know how Methodists operate.

Healthcare

There is one candidate for Pres that has had socialized medicine his entire life. McCain was a Navy brat and then was in the Navy himself. Never had to worry about healthcare in his life but he insists that the rest of us should be on our own when it comes to healthcare. Even when he was a POW he had socialized medicine and it really was socialized medicine because when he did have medical treatment it was by the North Vietnamese government. Even tho his wife has a Gazillion Dollars he still has not given up his socialized medicine. If healthcare provided by the government is so bad, why is he still in the system?? He can afford to pay his own way when it comes to healthcare yet he still is sucking the government tit when it comes to healthcare. He says that the private sector should fix healthcare, but the private sector has been running healthcare forever and that is the problem. The private sector worries only about profit and very little about providing the care that patients need.

What really amazes me is that most of those opposing reform of healthcare have somebody else picking up the tab for their insurance and usually it is the taxpayers. They are willing to suffer with their healthcare but the rest us shouldn't even think of asking for what they have. If we were to strip Congress of their health benefits maybe they would be more likely to work for reform of healthcare.

How Big is Your Piece?

If you think your piece isn't big enough, here's one that might make you feel a whole lot better.

Commercials

For a long time I have wondered about some of the ads on TV. One of the ones that has me wondering is the one that goes something like this. "Is the IRS calling you all the time and sending you nasty letters? Do you owe thousands in unpaid taxes, have you years of unfiled tax returns. Don't take on the IRS on your own, let our IRS professionals handle your case for you. We have helped thousands of 'good' people like you." I think in the fine print it says they only help 'good' people who owe $10,000 or more. I don't consider those that don't file tax returns or pay taxes owed 'good' people.

Another type of ad that has me scratching my (some body part) is those that promise to grow your wealth and manage your wealth. There are a ton of these ads on at all times of the day and night. The question is, who are they trying to get?? If you have a 401K at work, it is managed by a broker for you and you don't have a choice on who it is. If you are investing on your own, you already have a broker to buy and sell stocks for you. So who are these ads supposed to entice into doing business with them??

The way they use the word wealth has a dirty feel to it for me. The word wealth didn't used to have any effect on me, but since St Ronnie made greed not only acceptable but highly desirable it has come to have a filthy connotation to it.