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Addiction LXXVI

Old 11-07-19, 06:02 PM
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Originally Posted by rpenmanparker
It will just happen. Get old.
I am old. Old and decrepit. Doesn't 68 qualify?
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Bonds are also terrible right now, about as high priced as you could possibly ever see. It is hard to find a decent investment.

One possibility that I like as a retiree and may work for portfolio building is very high dividend stocks. That could be preferred stocks, but there are also a large number of ETFs focused on really high dividends. You can search for these by sorting the search results on a website called etfdb.com. I have a portfolio of funds paying an average of about 6% dividends. When the principal price goes down, I don't worry about it. I treat it like a long term bond. If you reinvest the dividends, then you will be converting income to growth.

Separating income and growth into separate baskets is a mistake that many people make, IMO. If you spend your growth it isn't any different than income. If you save your income, it isn't any different than growth. In this environment one of my strategies is to get income from the high dividend stock funds, but to the extent I can save some of it, it works like growth.
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Originally Posted by SwtBadger
Seems like yours is the amazing story, but am certainly pleased with how it worked out. By the way, when I was going through this, I had the impression that the DRs didn't want to operate on me as I was too YOUNG at the time. Like you I still have tingling at times, but with Motrin and some recognition it goes away - at least for now.
Your story has the element of mystery!
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Old 11-07-19, 06:49 PM
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I assumed as much. This is more along the lines of "I'm vaguely curious and also being nosy but I'm not losing sleep over this, rather, I'm trying to kill time while I procrastinate researching the impacts of Apprendi on the Kansas Sentencing Guidelines Act, much in the same way people can't look away from a crime scene or a car crash".
There was a shooting on Market St in SF this morning, just minutes before I passed by. The sidewalk was taped off, lots of police activity, and they were putting down little markers for the shell casings. Just like on TV.

Tried not to run into something immobile while craning my neck.
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Old 11-07-19, 06:59 PM
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And I don't do that anymore. There are already enough watchers. I feel so cool just passing by unconcerned.
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Old 11-07-19, 07:00 PM
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1900. Trying to stay awake until 2100. It will be a struggle, as it is every night since the time change.
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1900. Trying to stay awake until 2100. It will be a struggle, as it is every night since the time change.
All I want to do is sleep and eat, this time of year. I use a therapy light, which helps a little.
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Old 11-07-19, 07:45 PM
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Dark at 5 limits the time at work.
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Old 11-07-19, 07:48 PM
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Originally Posted by datlas
Is Ali Baba like NafNaf?? https://nafnafgrill.com/
Syrian owned. Not a chain, although NafNaf looks like it started in Chicago.

Lebanese & Persian Cuisine - Golden, Denver, DTC
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Old 11-07-19, 08:29 PM
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Originally Posted by sbxx1985
Syrian owned. Not a chain, although NafNaf looks like it started in Chicago.

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Got it. We have a Naf Naf a mile away. It’s good. Like Chipotle but Middle Eastern food.
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Ali Baba is delicious. I've only been to the one in Golden, and I'm certain it's just as good at all the rest.
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Old 11-07-19, 08:35 PM
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Originally Posted by MoAlpha
That’s an amazing story with a great outcome!

I was 54 and looking forward to aging up in the local races, when I started getting electrical shock sensations in my arms when I jumped or went up stairs. Being a neurologist, I knew exactly what that was and the MRI showed my canal down to about 4 mm at one level. Sailing season just ended and I stupidly started training again and eventually dinged my cord, went numb, etc. I bought myself a C6-7 fusion and prosthetic discs above and below, a real deluxe job that conventional opinion considered too aggressive for someone so OLD and the discs were only FDA approved for single levels, so it was an off-label use.

However, I was fortunate enough to to end up at Walter Reed with the guy who was handling all the spine cases from OEF/OIF and was used to dealing with fit, strong, people and had the balls to be aggressive instead of fusing everything and leaving my neck immobile, which the guy at the Bethesda Naval Hospital offered to do. Thats also what likely would have happened in the private sector, even though two neurosurgeons I know said that’s what they would want if they needed 3-level surgery and one of them said their partner had actually gone to Europe and paid cash. Military medicine can really suck, but there are pockets of real quality. The guy has since gotten out and gone to George Washington.

Anyway, it’s been great and those two steel joint are the only reason I can still ride a 4” seat-bars drop and look up well enough to to trim the mainsail in a race. My hands and feet still tingle and the hardware sticks into my esophagus and makes it hard to swallow some things, but I’m very happy.
It's good you made it through to the other side. So many back surgeries have horrible endings Good stuff.
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Originally Posted by sbxx1985
Dark at 5 limits the time at work.
Unless you have a meeting that goes until 5, at which point you might as well sit back down at your desk and have a work.
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Originally Posted by MoAlpha
Unless you have a meeting that goes until 5, at which point you might as well sit back down at your desk and have a work.
Riding home in the dark stinks.
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Arctic blast coming our way. It will be chilly for Saturday's ride, and Wednesday's ride will be downright wintery. Brrr. What are the best cold weather gloves??
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Originally Posted by datlas
Is Ali Baba like NafNaf?? https://nafnafgrill.com/
A couple weeks ago, I had some errands that took me to the mall and I had intended to try out Naf Naf for lunch... but it just so happened that it was the busiest that I've ever seen the mall and every restaurant line was a good 20 people deep. Oh well, next time.
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A couple weeks ago, I had some errands that took me to the mall and I had intended to try out Naf Naf for lunch... but it just so happened that it was the busiest that I've ever seen the mall and every restaurant line was a good 20 people deep. Oh well, next time.
I suspect you will like it. It's not quite worthy of an "A" but I would give it a B+ which ain't bad.
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We've had highs under freezing pretty regularly for the last 7-10 days. It got me pretty concerned about my winter prep (primarily the snow blower and an ice dam heating wire install), which isn't very fun when you're freezing your ass off. I had, of course, put off those things in favor of squeezing out the last road rides of the season, but it was looking as if I'd played it a little too tight. Looking at the forecast now, I'm seeing the prospect of sunshine and inching above freezing a few times in the coming week, so I may luck out. Fingers crossed.
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Some well meaning, but possibly misguided soul just left a HUGE carbo-dump at our office for the staff. It contains two big bags of muffins, donuts, and bagels.

I chose a blueberry muffin.
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All this commuter talk. I thought I never commuted by bicycle. Not true. I did it daily through 1981. In flat, warmish Sacramento.
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Originally Posted by datlas
Arctic blast coming our way. It will be chilly for Saturday's ride, and Wednesday's ride will be downright wintery. Brrr. What are the best cold weather gloves??
Not the ones you just ordered.
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
We've had highs under freezing pretty regularly for the last 7-10 days. It got me pretty concerned about my winter prep (primarily the snow blower and an ice dam heating wire install), which isn't very fun when you're freezing your ass off. I had, of course, put off those things in favor of squeezing out the last road rides of the season, but it was looking as if I'd played it a little too tight. Looking at the forecast now, I'm seeing the prospect of sunshine and inching above freezing a few times in the coming week, so I may luck out. Fingers crossed.
Have to winterize the boat and get the sails off this weekend. Sun and Mon will be warmish, but that would be better for riding...
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Originally Posted by datlas
Some well meaning, but possibly misguided soul just left a HUGE carbo-dump at our office for the staff. It contains two big bags of muffins, donuts, and bagels.

I chose a blueberry muffin.
Totally traditional as befits your worthy persona and profession. No kouign amans I suppose. Too bad.
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Cold morning=packed bus.
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Although it is fairly trashy, I have a soft spot for Red Robin. I think it is the jingle ending in “Yummm,” that gets me. A group of us plastics engineers and chemists are meeting there tomorrow for lunch before a round of sporting clays.
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