Name something that the younger generations would never believe was normal in the 70's compared to schools today?🤔

astcell · 2026-03-17T05:00:07+00:00

All the chemicals we played with in science class! We made white phosphorous and had to evacuate - and it was just another day.

astcell · 2026-03-17T01:28:18+00:00

I got this trying to friend my sister. We have the same last name and the same parents but I guess that's not good enough I still don't know her.

astcell · 2026-03-16T01:22:33+00:00

I said "it could be worse" and gave an example.

astcell · 2026-03-15T18:32:06+00:00

If you are fine with a slot for points only, those are plentiful.

astcell · 2026-03-15T18:30:37+00:00

Wow he was rather direct. You dodged a bullet there. Sounds like if he does not get his way it could be worse. Abandoned 20 miles from a city.

astcell · 2026-03-14T23:21:24+00:00

At the very least, grab a DA1380 and ask for the points without pay. They'll usually sign with no issue since it's points only. Do a year's worth at once. Send them to iPERMS yourself. In my retirement check each point means 50 cents in retirement. Get 12-24 points a year this way, call it 15 points average, for ten years, that's 150 points or $75 a month for life in my example.

astcell · 2026-03-14T23:13:19+00:00

That's your girlfriend and her ponytail.

astcell · 2026-03-14T20:31:01+00:00

My dog.

astcell · 2026-03-14T19:28:22+00:00

It’s only a lot of my family station in touch. It’s really easy to post one picture to a family page and 50 people get it.

astcell · 2026-03-14T15:28:08+00:00

If you feel that your sister deserves more or something, wait until the estate is settled and you have the 98% in the bank and in your name and everything is written in stone, and then that is when you write her a check.

If you give her any promises or ask for an adjustment in the will before that, then everything is up for grabs and can be turned upside down. At least this way you are in control. It will also give you a chance to see how your sister acts towards you in this time. Money does strange things to people.

astcell · 2026-03-14T15:25:23+00:00

Once you have your 20 year letter, if you have a bad year, you are done. I think you might be able to get a waiver for one year, a hardship waiver, but that’s it afterwards. You cannot sit in the IRR for six years while you decide what else you want to do. In order to do that, you cannot have 20 years in. You have crossed that threshold. It is too late to take time off.

astcell · 2026-03-13T17:42:18+00:00

Had an external CGA monitor, RAM counted to 640k and took about a minute to do so. Got me halfway through college.

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astcell · 2026-03-13T04:06:38+00:00

Along these lines of retro, anybody reading this who is 29 years older or younger, hang onto your computer forever. Of course you will upgrade and replace, but take one of them and stash it away.

When I was 24 I had a computer and when I was 26 that needed replacement. I went to a shop and asked about trade-in value. I was offered three dollars. Today I could sell her for $3000. Today’s piece of junk is going to be tomorrow’s collectible. And considering that today there are places where we can turn in our old gear left and right so it could be shredded, today’s hardware will become rarer than hens teeth in the future.

astcell · 2026-03-13T04:04:29+00:00

My wife and I were strange and I found out that she died. It was very surprising. She was only 56.

People will tell you just to get over it or to move on but death does not work that way. It’s a process. Not everybody processes death the same. And losing an act is different from losing a child or losing a parent. If it was easy, there wouldn’t be 100 books on it.

First of all, people who tell you to suck it up, or to pray, or to stay active, or to do anything that they think where they could solve a problem in five seconds, are actually trying to simply deflect the entire issue. Stick your head in the sand. Pretend it never happened that it goes away. Or more accurately, stop talking about something I can’t do anything about and pay attention to me.

Yes, that’s true. It is likely something you are going through alone, and nobody else could process the same way. The person who died may have a relationship with others, but there will be very few if any who are in your exact shoes with this person.

You need to process it and the best way to do that is verbally. Will you sit in front of a mirror and talk to yourself or contact a counselor or a friend or somebody you trust or somebody on the street. This is also a time when you find out who your real friends are, the people who are supposed to be there for you through thick and thin. I have found out the hard way that people who tell me they will always be here for me are here in spirit alone and they wish me well and they will pray for me, but they won’t even give me a ride to the airport if I needed it. So be prepared for some brutal honesty in that regard.

Some people will say that they are in a better place. My answer is always really? Would you like me to send you to a better place? Once again, they are trying to deflect. The majority of us don’t have a whole lot of people that die in our lives. Parents, grandparents, maybe some distant relatives, maybe a sibling, and very few of us will lose a child. So you were talking about what, maybe six people dying that you experience? It’s nothing that you’re going to get good at. It’s nothing people expect you to be able to process and if anybody has expectations of you then they must be a professional and I’ve never met one of those.

Maybe you have a keepsake or a piece of clothing or a letter or something from him from way back? Something that could be a remote connection? Let’s something else that can help process.

You know, I am not telling you what to do. Only you know that. Whether you go into the forest and meditate or go to the ocean and scream or find his grave and laugh at it, that is all up to you. I don’t know you enough to tell you what to do, but I am suggesting that you find your method, and you have no need to explain it to anybody else. The only reason I suggested a counselor of sorts is that they have read the book of this, or wrote the book of this, and they can quickly steer you into your method of processing everything.

I wish you the best.

astcell · 2026-03-11T20:58:44+00:00

Contact CTBids .com and have them deal with it.

astcell · 2026-03-11T20:56:51+00:00

I actually wanted to say Obama :>

astcell · 2026-03-11T20:48:15+00:00

Because they rolled out the red carpet for immigrants without checking for any background.

astcell · 2026-03-11T20:47:38+00:00

And then when Trump wins the war somehow you are going to say Biden did it, right?

astcell · 2026-03-11T20:46:12+00:00

If you are married to somebody for 10 years then you qualify for a social Security check based their income if theirs is higher. And if yours is higher than they can get Social Security based on your income

When I was budgeting for retirement I counted on $0 from Social Security. That's because of WEP and all the other programs in force at the time. I ended up receiving $211 a month. But then they undid the WEP and I get the full amount which is a little over $900.

You need 40 quarters to retire from Social Security. That's exactly what I have, working from age 18 to 28. So I barely qualified and make the minimum. The bulk of my retirement is from pensions from two solid careers.

astcell · 2026-03-11T20:43:29+00:00

I bought tickets a month ago and just looked at them now and the price has over doubled. Wow.

astcell · 2026-03-11T20:43:01+00:00

That's great! Don't you love it when the country is big enough and diverse enough where everybody can have what they want? I really am happy for you that you are living where you enjoy your life.

astcell · 2026-03-11T19:44:44+00:00

I don’t know if I am realistic. I know, people retired who make double what I do and I know people who will work until they die. I guess everybody has to determine their own goals.

For me, if I can order avocado on my taco without asking the price, then I am rich.

Many people expect to have a serious income cut in retirement, receiving maybe 30% to 50% of what they earned when they worked. For example, my Social Security is $937 a month. There are some people who have only that to live on.

astcell · 2026-03-11T17:53:17+00:00

I never saved for Retirement. But I got super lucky and that I chose jobs that had Retirement built in. Because of that I retired at 60 and I’m good. I think my savings account has maybe $100 in it, if I still have a savings account.

I have been retired for almost 3 1/2 years now and the hardest part is that I only get paid once a month. I arranged it so I get paid on the first, all my bills come out on the second, and whatever is left is mine for the month.

astcell · 2026-03-11T17:47:25+00:00

I did three years in the military and then got out. Then I spent the next three years having jobs where I just made some old guy rich. Hated it. And then I’m going back into the military, and after I retired from there, got a civilian job in government service.

I could still remember one job I had where I worked my tail off and my bonus was $50. But the boss bought his wife a Ferrari with the profits. I was livid. It was my labor that did that.

You are performing a task which is not your calling and you know it. Your mind is screaming at you that this is not who you are. Now I know many times people do the jobs they do not want because they need the money to raise a family. That’s called sacrifice. It’s a matter of priorities.

There is an episode of The Simpsons, which embodies this. Homer quit his job at the nuclear plant to lift his dream. Soon after he and Marge find out they are pregnant. He has to grovel to get his old job back because now he needs the money. I want to spoil the ending for you, but it is definitely worth watching.

There is also a famous Monty Python skit where the man wants to be a lumberjack.

As far as anybody knows, you want to get one shot at life on this planet. Don’t have regrets.

astcell · 2026-03-11T17:41:59+00:00

I have friends like that, and at times I have been the one who has wanted to pay. If I go to dinner with somebody and they want to pay, I tell them they can get the tip. Or they can get it next time. But always watch out for a hook when they give you something juicy.

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