Recent content by Rich29

I drive a 2017 Subaru Outback (80,000 Miles) and my wife drives a 2016 Lexus(16,000 miles).

My wife recently had hip surgery and the Health Center provided free parking, caring staff, lounge chair for sleeping spouse and complimentary meals for the spouse.The Health Center originally was a small hospital that was purchased by 30 surgeons. Very positive experience.

My base is 20% as my son (who was a part time short order cook during college) reminds me how hard wait staff work in most restaurants.

I use USAA for 2 autos, homeowners and umbrella. Yes, rates go up every year along with everything else. Cars are older (2016 and 2017) so that helps with premiums.

I would not like to go back to the time without a home PC. I believe my first purchase was in the 1990's and was a Gateway system ( remember those neat cow pattern boxes). Dince then I have had Dell and and HP laptops. In 2016 I took the leap and now have an Apple desktop and iPhone.

Surgery went well. Hope to go late today or tomorrow. Thanks for your wishes.

Sitting in hospital waiting room as my wife is having hip surgery. The doctors will keep her overnight and then hopefully release her tomorrow morning. Fingers crossed.

I'm late as well. Happy Birthday @OneEyedDiva

I was born and grew up in central New Jersey which was very rural back then. Lived of other parts of NJ before relocating to South Carolina 13 years ago. Do I miss NJ? There are many things I miss about my home state ( family members, pizza, attitudes) but there are also positives (living costs...

We have LTC and yes the premiums are steep. Our policies are through the Federal Government as I'm a former fed employee. I'm reasonably confident that our policies will be secure as they are backed by the govt. Future premium increases can be minimized if one reduces built-in inflation rates...

78 and living the dream - well sorta

We have used a CPA for years; both state and federal.

This discussion reminds me of the love or hate opinions folks had when Elvis and then the Beatles came on the scene in their respective eras.

Waiting for temp to hit 50 degrees so I can finish staining the deck. I did 2/3 yesterday and my body is feeling it today.

In the 1970's when I was a newbie engineer with the telephone company in NJ, I was out in the field with a veteran lineman. We were trying to locate our underground cabe. The lineman pulled out of his tool box two right angle wires with wood handles. He proceeded to walk through the field until...