ChilkatSally

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ChilkatSally replied to the Dropout's Den board. 12:16 PM

Re: Checking in and tax question

My daughter's office just sent out an email saying Nov 1, return to the office. She set up a wonderful home office and loves working remotely from it. She had received permission from her supervisor to change her remote status to my house, so she [more]

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ChilkatSally replied to the Dropout's Den board. 2:07 PM

Re: Checking in and tax question

I am trying to spice up my life a bit. have found no Joy in cleaning out my closets, getting rid of books. It is becoming too easy to binge on foreign telenovelas.

Just for fun, I am going back track my grocery bills. When steaks get up to [more]

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ChilkatSally posted to the Dropout's Den board. 12:52 PM

Checking in and tax question

Late summer is the best time to be on the Olympic Peninsula. The summer crowds are gone and all of the special destinations are perfectly stunning. I think I’m 73 now I can’t seem to remember how old I am.

I do need to thank all the really [more]

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ChilkatSally replied to the Dropout's Den board. 6:39 PM

Re: Jimi’s Revolution

Of course I had to google AlloDerm. I see one of our great Seattle hospitals is using it for breast repair. I will ask on one our local FB community page.

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ChilkatSally posted to the Dropout's Den board. 4:53 PM

Jimi’s Revolution

Jimi used to say the revolution is coming. Wouldn’t it be something if it was a bunch of young traders on a bulletin board who triggered it. Wouldn’t it be something if all Trumps “mob” realized the inequities they felt had roots in our current [more]

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ChilkatSally posted to the Dropout's Den board. 1:15 AM

Can’t help but laugh

I opened an Reddit so I could lurk on r/WallStreetBets. Reminds me of the enthusiastic chase of technology stocks back in the day. Retail investors giving a might Fuch you to hedge funds. When the tide goes out.....
I am loving these youngsters. [more]

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ChilkatSally posted to the Dropout's Den board. 5:20 PM

It’s a new year

While I don’t pay attention anymore to the stock market anymore, occasionally something will make me go hummmm. Crude oil at 50.00 ish? Perhaps oil companies can quit laying off employees.
My daughter took advantage of BP’s severance package. It [more]

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ChilkatSally replied to the Dropout's Den board. 3:15 PM

Re: Hey Friends

Out here in rural land, the radical right has taken to extremes the “mask will kill me cause”. Was a couple big lake parties re-spreading Covid around the county. I don’t think we will ever reopen our county as long as these folks refuse to [more]

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ChilkatSally replied to the Dropout's Den board. 4:57 PM

Re: Self Quarantine, Day 29

I have lost count of the days. So far my all family are safe, Even the essential ones, nurse, fireman, policeman. The ones that can work from home are. No one has lost their job. My daughter was able to score a much cheaper rent in Houston. Watching [more]

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ChilkatSally posted to the Dropout's Den board. 12:45 PM

Self Quarantine day 6

I feel so luck to be in my comfy home, nice back yard full of tasks, Amazon ready to deliver stuff that I will have hanging around for ages.

I watch the news to seen an empty Bourbon Street in New Orleans, where about three weeks ago I and [more]

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ChilkatSally replied to the Dropout's Den board. 12:27 PM

Re: Self Quarantine, Day 5

WilliB, sometime ago, I
checked with the state of Alaska and amazingly the will I made out at 35 never got filed. I had sort of let things slide because the only thing that has changed for me is my address and my gaining an IRA. Kendra is my [more]

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ChilkatSally posted to the Dropout's Den board. 1:38 PM

Returning to Washington

The tourism industry must have the local media by the short hairs. I have not heard anything on local tv regarding numbers. Once I asked the google, I was surprised at how bad it was around Miami. You hear a lot of comparisons to flu, it’s fake news, [more]

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ChilkatSally replied to the Dropout's Den board. 12:11 PM

Re: Doing an IRA Rollover

The days where I pick up 5.00 in front of the bus are long over. I do find myself thinking about starting a watch list. My ability to take on risk is in flux.

I am near the middle of my winter travel schedule. I have three more airplanes to [more]

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ChilkatSally posted to the Dropout's Den board. 5:02 PM

Changes to retirement laws

I was reading a page on Schwab.com regarding Significant retirement savings law changes hare coming in 2020. One item caught my attention.
“Change to 529 plans. Assets in these college-savings plans can now be [more]

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ChilkatSally replied to the Dropout's Den board. 4:35 PM

Re: 20 years

Hey Teddy,
Not getting over not being Spanish? I’m not getting over my mom being right:)

Only one house on the market in our 30 year old HOA. Price tag 800,000. You younger folks need to save more to live on a coast. The oldest [more]

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ChilkatSally replied to the Dropout's Den board. 9:44 AM

Re: 20 years

Getting cataracts fixed was indeed eye opening. Had to hire a couple folks to come clean my house. Then I Repainted kitchen cabinet... huge job, and know that the entire inside of house needs painted. I have extremely tall ceilings so it’s going to [more]

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ChilkatSally replied to the Dropout's Den board. 3:45 PM

Re: 20 years

“In my dreams” never had the life I have now lead. I could not have imagined in my forties, programming in my cube , trying to keep my daughter in her classes, my bosses happy, a social life, a busy treadmill of tasks, that I would be where I am [more]

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ChilkatSally replied to the Dropout's Den board. 3:57 PM

Re: Reading, PA food bank

Helping Harvest is great. They have a caring professional team. I met a bunch of those folks who came out to the Peninsula for a conference. They supply to all the food banks in this area. If I had known about them after I retired, I would have loved [more]

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ChilkatSally replied to the Dropout's Den board. 8:57 PM

Re: Cold enough?

I am so sorry Teddy, hobbling is no fun and can turn you into a couch potato.
just when I was enjoying the second warmest January on record, we are getting hit with a snowstorm our cities aren’t prepared for. My trusty all wheel drive Subaru [more]

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ChilkatSally replied to the Dropout's Den board. 9:44 PM

Re: Cold enough?

You can tell I’m a changed woman when I think staying here, busy in my community, rather winters in Florida, is a good time.

Just finished my tax return. Yup, I’m tired of winning.