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Naps
That nap was just about right. A mini-vacation. A few minutes to retreat from the day, knowing there will be a return to work and chores. But for just a few minutes, close the eyes, let the mind wind down, … Continue reading
Real Durable Good
Let’s see. Used it almost every day since 1992, and finally replaced it with a better one. Is that durable enough to make it a durable good? More than thirty years ago, I bought a futon without a frame. Now, … Continue reading
A Frustration Of Frugality
Boycott this! Boycott that! Ignore the advertisers and the corporations! Shout it out! Ah, my blogs and my books are the closest I get to that. As for the boycotts and such, sometimes it is hard for a frugal person … Continue reading
Medicare And My Move
As if there wasn’t enough to do, my move made Kaiser Permanente move – move to cancel my insurance. Isn’t bureaucracy grand? You don’t have to answer that. Their move makes some sense, I guess. I moved to an area … Continue reading
Geron Approved
GERN Achieves FDA ApprovalAh, investing in biotech. Welcome to a mostly-incomprehensible title for a major announcement. “Geron Announces FDA Approval of RYTELO™ (imetelstat), a First-in-Class Telomerase Inhibitor, for the Treatment of Adult Patients with Lower-Risk MDS with Transfusion-Dependent Anemia” – … Continue reading
FATE – One Company One Story
Welcome to another story and another video in my One Company One Story series.This time, Fate Therapeutics (FATE). Here comes the amateur legalese. I began investing in companies and their stocks in the late 70s, but am Not a certified … Continue reading
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Tagged cancer, Dream. Invest. Live., health, healthcare, investing, LTBH, personal finance, stocks
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Fresh Idea – Patient Filtered Sunglasses
Fresh ideas, inventions that I pass along to the world. Maybe they already exist. Maybe they’re useful. Maybe they’re fun. Maybe I don’t have the time, money, and resources to patent them, or develop them, or both. At least by … Continue reading
Surrendering To Medicare
(Gotta chronicle this now because there are so many details that my memory won’t hold them for long. It may not even want to. If I Had More Time I Could Have Made It Shorter. #IIHMTICHMIS) Aargh!!! Sign up for … Continue reading
Scared By Medicare
Do you mean to tell me that is all there is to signing up for Medicare? I’ll take Classic, please. Thanks, ads that interrupt my shows, thick brochures mixed in with my bills, barely overheard horror stories about the service. … Continue reading
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Tagged health, health care, health insurance, healthcare, ObamaCare, personal finance
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Loneliness Costs
How to write this without sounding like a lonely old guy? But, it is news and personal finance plays a part. I guess I’ll just begin. From one of my other blogs, Pretending Not To Panic; “A new report from … Continue reading
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Tagged carbon footprint, health, loneliness, Mental Health, personal finance
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