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   From: sqwertzme@gmail.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 06:40:42 -0700, Jeff Liebermann wrote:   
      
   > On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 01:52:13 -0700 (PDT), Michael Terrell   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >>Enjoy your retirement, my friend! :)   
   >   
   > Thanks.  However, it's not easy to find enjoyment while trying to   
   > adjust to Covid-19, dysfunctional government at all levels, impending   
   > economic collapse, limits on travel, increasing weather related   
   > problems, an increasing homeless problem, and probably increased taxes   
   > to keep the economy afloat.  Health problems and advancing age   
   > increasingly limit my activities.  I can survive on Social Security   
   > payments and the 80% that Medicare provides, but suspect those   
   > benefits to will eventually be reduced by inflation as the government   
   > resorts to printing money to finance its activities.  I expect my   
   > "retirement" to more closely resemble living on unemployment with the   
   > added bonus of having no debt and a modest bank account.  Since I have   
   > no children or immediate family, I could easily have obtained a   
   > reverse mortgage on my house, and lived off the cash.  However, the   
   > recent fires in California might make that impossible due to   
   > increasing difficulties obtaining replacement value fire insurance, a   
   > basic requirement for a reverse mortgage.  In other words, the long   
   > term prospects for an enjoyable retirement look rather grim.   
   >   
   > However, before I blunder on into this dismal future, I have an   
   > immediate problem to deal with.  I brought about 75% of the contents   
   > of my formerly palatial office to my house when I moved out.  There   
   > was no time to do sorting, only time to box everything and move.  I   
   > moved it in small increments because I have no garage or storage space   
   > at the house and because I had to carry the boxes up about 50 stairs.   
   > The boxes are now piled up both inside and outside the house.  Much of   
   > it is covered with ash that is still falling from the trees due to the   
   > recent nearby fires.  Rain will likely arrive in a few weeks and   
   > nothing outside is protected.  I need to deal with that immediately,   
   > but can't during the current heat waves.  At least I won't be bored   
   > looking for something to do.   
   >   
   > Incidentally, it's now 6AM and 75F (24C) outside.  NWS predicts the   
   > temperature to rise to 101F (38C) today.  I might be able to do 2-3   
   > hrs of box shuffling today.  It's likely that the local power company,   
   > PG&E, will intentionally disconnect the power to prevent falling power   
   > lines from starting more fires and to reduce the load on the power   
   > grid from air conditioning.   
   >   
   > Thanks again for the hopeful thoughts, but this is not the retirement   
   > that I had planned and is unlikely to be enjoyable.   
      
   I see alchemy as your next hobby: Turning all that computer stuff   
   into Gold! In which case you don't have to move any of. Rain won't   
   hurt it.   
      
   I know it's hard to let go, but .....   
      
   -sw   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)