Recent content by Gark

Ya might consider replacing the electrolytic capacitors or find someone who can....

We decided that our credit ratings were not important since we pay cash for everything now. I froze both our files at the big three agencies to (hopefully stop) bogus new accounts against us. No use for these crooked credit ratings agencies unless there's some unforeseen time we need credit...

And even older - this 3 1/2 inch rigid diskette at 1.44 MB started out with only 720 KB. Before that was 5 1/4 “ floppy (truly flexible) diskettes. And who will admit being old enough to have used 8” floppies? Imagine what we would have thought back then to see modern day memory devices and...

Oh, that '57 gives me heart palpitations.... Nice....

Rap music.

Sent all my money to a prince in Zindania who promised me 400% returns on my investment. Still waiting on my windfall. Any day now my ship will come in ....

There is no need to find my own mistakes and self-announce them to myself or others. My spouse will find and announce drips, goofs, calculation errors and stains in laundry, out loud and usually in front of others if possible.

As a 7-year old that never ever encountered air conditioning, in the hot sweaty summer the parks & recreation system offered a 1-hour ride on a passenger train for 25 cents. It was air conditioned - in 1959 - I could not comprehend how absolutely comfortable dry cool air was!!

Answering the OP question, our portfolio - pretty much the easy concepts recommended by the late John Bogle. He showed a simple three fund setup of index funds with an asset allocation (annuities/bonds/cash) that you can sleep with. For 9 years in retirement (no earned income), we have AA of...

Have an old Scott receiver, Sony PTS-215 turntable and RSL 12” 3-way speakers,all still work. Regrettably, the old Marantz 1152DC stereo amp died (that thing really pumped out music/watts!).

In my case, nope. Absolutely nope.

Um, no - Life Savers abandoned their plant in Holland, Michigan to move production to some factory in Canada because "sugar was cheaper" and laid off 600+ dedicated workers for the corporate "almighty dollar". I've boycotted and for life will never purchase any other Life Saver product to...

I do not agree with these numbers from wherever they came. Last year, pork steaks were 4.49 per pound, yesterday the store had 'em at 6.78 per pound. Gas for my vehicle was 2.98 per gallon, today it was 3.34 per gallon. My internet + cable stations was $121 per year, now $157 per year. My car...

I haven't a clue WTF you are talking about....

Here's a thought - like old vinyl records, some albums have only one, maybe 2 songs you really want to hear. How about digitizing the few songs on each CD disc all into MP3 files, put them all on a 32GB USB thumb drive and play that on most modern sound players, DVD player or even the computer...