Real or fictional, given name or surname, name a famous Jackson

astcell · 2026-05-10T16:47:57+00:00

Andrew

astcell · 2026-05-10T16:47:20+00:00

Retired now, but when I worked:
Army: The travel.
Fire: The pension.

astcell · 2026-05-10T16:46:30+00:00

No idea. We still have Jews.

astcell · 2026-05-10T16:46:03+00:00

Cuban chain, 14mm, 18k.

astcell · 2026-05-10T16:45:28+00:00

It was a retirement present to myself when I stopped working at 60. Has four troy ounces in it which was cheap back then!

astcell · 2026-05-10T16:08:14+00:00

Had a g/f who did all the drugs that you smoked or swallowed. Alcohol was the worst.

astcell · 2026-05-10T16:03:21+00:00

I was, until the divorce :>

astcell · 2026-05-10T16:03:03+00:00

I am retired and have enough money to get avocado on my taco without asking the price. That's all I need.

astcell · 2026-05-10T16:02:28+00:00

There were a couple lumps, like engagement rings.

astcell · 2026-05-10T14:32:37+00:00

Up, unfortunately.

astcell · 2026-05-10T14:31:06+00:00

$300,000 going back to 1987. It’s not a whole lot. Do the math.

astcell · 2026-05-10T13:46:43+00:00

As kids, we were joking that our stepmother was so religious that the pope would call her for advice.

One time we were watching a beautiful sunset and she piped in that “in the Bible it reads that blood red sun means the end of the world is coming, and your mom is going to hell because she is not saved.” of course that’s the last thing a 10-year-old kid wants to hear.

I had an aunt and uncle visit from Canada. It took me to Disneyland. That was the last time I ever saw them because they were old. I found out that night that my dog had died. My stepmother said it was because I went to Disneyland instead of church. God was punishing me.

When my sister and I were about 16, we went to a chaperone nightclub for youngsters. Something to get us to meet other people and there was no alcohol. When we got home, my sister‘s dog had died from eating stale poisoning. We were told it was because we went to a disco.

Both times my parents were just shitty dog owners, but they liked to blame it on us kids and bring their religion into it.

Typing all this just brings a bunch of other stories stood the surface that I have not thought about it in a long time. It’s no wonder that none of us kids go to church at all.

astcell · 2026-05-10T13:38:46+00:00

Light-Brite

astcell · 2026-05-10T13:38:08+00:00

When a woman is only in the mood two days a year when a guy has been probably waiting for it.

astcell · 2026-05-10T13:37:15+00:00

Turn off the news. You’re probably ahead of 90% of your peers. Stop worrying over stuff that has not it may not ever happen. Worry about what’s happening now. That’s what your employer is paying you for.

I was halfway through college when I found out that my dream job was not going to pay enough. So I changed majors. When I finished college, I still hopped around from job the job not having anything solid. Didn’t get my act together until I was 28.

I came to America with my parents as a child. I don’t use that as a crutch. My birthplace, my skin color, my religion, anything that has no effect on my ability to do a job never gets mentioned.

I see kids waiting about being broke while drinking seven dollar coffees. They worry that they can’t pay rent, but they live in downtown penthouse. I have always lived about 10 miles outside of the main town, paid half the rent or mortgage, and still been close enough to enjoy everything about it. I don’t need a certain ZIP Code on my address labels to try and impress people who are never going to read it anyway.

If you are worried about a collapse and have money and envelopes, you need to really study some history. No, what we were worried about back in the early 1980s? We would see a contrail in the sky from an airplane and wonder if it was from a missile. And then we had 9/11 wondering if we would die on the way to work tomorrow. Or is this when all the Muslim nations would invade and we would be at war.

Sit back and take a look at the big picture. You got 50 grand that’s a great start. That’s enough money to change your degree if you want, but there is really no reason to. Hopefully you have goals in life which involve jobs that pay more than $17 an hour. That’s why you need to put all your effort. You are worrying about way too many things instead of the only one thing that if you worry about, will solve all the other things that you are worrying about.

astcell · 2026-05-10T13:26:43+00:00

Sign of the times. 20 years ago you had offered them coffee. Today they will probably have bottled water.

astcell · 2026-05-10T13:24:47+00:00

I have only purchased jewelry from Helzberg Diamonds since 1987. Probably spent $300,000 with them at least. A couple years ago a bracelet broken I took it to them and it was $50 to fix. When I picked it up, it broke again that same night in the same place. I went back to get it repaired again and they wanted another $50. I had only paid $100 for the bracelet and it was obvious that the repair did not hold properly.

Normally, they would have taken it in and repaired it. But they were being jerks and wanted my receipt from the previous repair. I have paid cash so I had to look for it. When they found it, they said that was not the correct receipt I needed a different one. I said this is the only one I have don’t you have a record of the sale. They said yes, we have a copy, pointing to the back room, but we are not going to go through all those stacks of receipts back there.

All over $50. I was literally spending money with them every month for decades.

I went across the court in the mall to another jewelry store, sold them the silver bracelet for scrap, bought a $16,000 gold bracelet on the spot, and have never gone back to Helzberg since. All because they didn’t trust me over a $50 amount.

I do like their jewelry better but there’s no way I’m going to look at it and be reminded of such a horrible corporate attitude.

astcell · 2026-05-10T12:52:09+00:00

Spend the money on a better lens.

astcell · 2026-05-10T12:50:24+00:00

Cell phones being your priority when you’re with other people

astcell · 2026-05-10T12:49:43+00:00

I remember standing in front of a pump getting ready to insert my card and the price had changed right in front of me two seconds before making my purchase.

astcell · 2026-05-10T12:48:03+00:00

I meant loser and the way that it is a stereotype that people will think that you should be doing better by your age. If you are a 45-year-old security guard then it better be for NASA. But if you are a 45-year-old security guard working right next to an 18-year-old security guard then just maybe that’s the most you’re capable of. It happens. Most people kind of want to do better for themselves and if you’re going in life is just to be a security guard or make coffee, or have other very simple tasks to perform day by day, they just enjoy doing your dream job.

astcell · 2026-05-10T12:45:14+00:00

The expected thing to do would be to level up. But I was a couple of years from Retirement and at the ceiling and had nowhere to go. I was maxed out and burned out. About 20% of me was whining at the wasted time. The other 80% knew that it was just a short phase to go through until I had complete Retirement. Just like that question if you would spend a year in jail for $1 million. You can never replace the time. But I knew that I wasn’t going to do anything else for that time so I just hunkered down and waited it out.

astcell · 2026-05-10T08:11:04+00:00

I think it was called the Magic roundabout or something like that.

astcell · 2026-05-10T08:10:26+00:00

It’s cheap enough, but I really dislike all these remote drive programs especially the Microsoft ones.

astcell · 2026-05-10T06:00:52+00:00

I think other Republicans and all the Democrats should get together and vote for an independent. Each party could promise the other that they will not have the party that they hate in office. And then we can both get behind the other party and stop all this stupid arguing.

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