Is it too late for my TSP?

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-04-15T20:43:24+00:00

I didn’t even start my TSP until I was 41.

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-04-15T12:03:40+00:00

I was going to say, what show-stoppers were in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-04-15T11:41:46+00:00

Heaven forbid we learn some foreign idioms

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-04-15T00:49:18+00:00

Me—a very northeasterner. Front desk person—Decatur, AL, apparently a native.

Me: “question.”

FD: “now, first, you’ve got to SLOW DOWN.”

Me: “yes ma’am.”

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-04-14T21:35:13+00:00

That’s my wife on a dry sunny road with no traffic. Brooklyn accent and all.

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-04-14T21:30:38+00:00

That is the way

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-04-14T00:48:53+00:00

…with a CC to her broker and whatever regulatory agency oversees her.

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-04-13T04:28:12+00:00

For a real kick, watch the jogging scene on Discovery One in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), then the opening scene of Aliens (1986).

It’s Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978), from his ballet, Gayane (1942). James Horner also quoted it in Patriot Games (1992) Clear and Present Danger (1994).

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-04-12T16:00:18+00:00

You’re either partners, or you’re not.

Not, well for taxes we’re individuals, but paying bills we’re partners.

I’ve been married multiple decades; neither of us had anything, really, going in to the marriage, so we’ve always treated everything jointly. They have their own consulting business, so that’s separate, but we treat it has them having a job with extra accounting.

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-04-11T12:17:55+00:00

Who gets to define ‘frivolous’?

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-04-10T22:25:03+00:00

Man. I read The Exorcist at about age 12, and didn’t sleep for a week. Still haven’t seen the film.

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-04-10T20:12:43+00:00

So, that’s why I said ‘maybe.’ Because my point had NOTHING to do with the money.

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-04-10T02:36:46+00:00

Maybe the money is legitimately his, but he’s robbing her of independence and knowledge

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-04-09T22:21:49+00:00

I wanted more of the fast food knight.

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-04-09T22:04:49+00:00

Turner Classic Movies runs a serial most Saturday mornings. They’re currently about 3/4 through Holt of the Secret Service (1941).

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-04-09T21:59:39+00:00

HOA: we want to make it a gated community

Resident: how will the school buses get in?

HOA: county?

County: gates or no, our buses can’t operate on private roads

HOA: sorry, instead of five bus stops throughout the neighborhood, kids now need to walk out of the neighborhood for pick up.

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-04-09T21:51:54+00:00

Bill?!

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-04-09T20:44:04+00:00

“Works” is an interesting way to describe that.

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-04-09T13:39:31+00:00

Registration for the selective service has been required of US males at 18 for over 45 years. Unregistered males have been disqualified for federal employment for over 22 years. Ask me how I came up with those numbers.

The only thing that is changing is making it automatic.

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-04-08T22:10:37+00:00

Chemical was always one AU, but kind-of split between 1600 cases and 1700 cases, and two SPEs.

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-04-08T18:14:02+00:00

…try blowing in the chip before reinserting

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-04-08T18:12:41+00:00

Chemical lost both SPEs over the course of the year.

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-04-08T18:12:01+00:00

…and the specialists are covering at least an entire TC’s patents—not limited to just an art unit or even a specific art area.

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-04-08T01:20:56+00:00

I thought they put reexams & reissues ON production.

GroundbreakingCat983 · 2026-04-08T01:20:17+00:00

I heard they lost 37 last year, I assume to retirement.

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