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Prophet Zacharia

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  1. Assuming I don’t contract Covid from my wife (I’ve been living in the basement since she started having symptoms) I will be working on Halloween.
  2. How are we doing today? Although I do have a complaint about my teammate @Dottles, I think he has been sleeping on the job.
  3. It was easier to distinguish the two of you when you had the Lower Trenton Bridge as your avatar. Having grown up in Yardley, it was easy to remember which you were.
  4. That was the problem I encountered when I had a specific question recently about changing a portion of my 401(k) to a back-door Roth. The cost to get professional advise was substantial enough relative to the potential tax savings that it wasn’t worth it.
  5. The shop is halfway between where we beat the British at Trenton and then lost Philadelphia to them at the Battle of Brandywine the next year. Surely that played a role in the selection.
  6. London’s pretty flat. And yet, London’s pretty flat. And it looks like a sub-compact sized, single front chainring. BMX-like. I’m disappointed with @Razors Edge for not discussing the electronic shifting. And @denniS for not calling out the lack of single speed setup. Me, I’d have gone fixed gear.
  7. I think it gives the ability to spew crazy in a format that doesn’t necessarily make that apparent right from the start. In the past, that would take the form of a ditto or Xerox copy of single-spaced, typewritten manifesto. No one was going to read that with the expectation of sanity within. Now it’s a formatted “news” story, electronically presented, or snippet of information in a meme that don’t leap out as being off-base quite as loudly. Agreed. And domestic provocateurs.
  8. Just worry. The increase in money going to the after 50 “catch-up” increase to fully max out retirement savings and a simultaneous attempt to pay off my mortgage within the next five years by throwing extra cash at it each month has made spending money tight at times. Inflation and a kid still in high school and another in college also takes it’s toll. Although I’ve increased my work schedule so as to maintain planned vacations, and a master bathroom remodel. So overall, just worry.
  9. I don’t know where things are in terms of the Federal mandate, does that kick-in in December for anyone working with Medicare/Medicaid patients? Although I don’t know if that will apply to this woman, as they are a research unit… unless similar mandates will apply for NIH funded grant workers? My wife’s hospital has not (yet) taken the mandated approach due 1) a fairly high vaccination acceptance rate locally and 2) fear a mandate would lead to staffing shortages due to resignations, causing a bigger hole in patient care. Obviously, I disagree with that decision. Oh, and the kicker is we obviously can’t prove it was this woman, she could obviously claim someone else exposed the both of them. And she’ll never test herself for Covid. MAYBE my wife’s unit’s Medical Director will act, she knows this woman’s vaccination status and attitudes, but by now it’s too late. And now this woman will have natural immunity (and actually be medically contra-indicated for a vaccine for awhile).
  10. This woman doesn’t believe in Covid. Prides herself for not missing work. Anti-Covid vaxxer. She is a nurse.
  11. Mailing address is Pittsburgh. I’m probably 4 miles from the city line.
  12. Maybe. Toronto is in town to play the Penguins this evening.
  13. Exciting first half. And a blimp for @Kirby.
  14. Nothing. I am much more comfortable with small group teaching than lectures. I always anticipate the grandstanding egomaniac asking questions at a lecture, and I don’t like them. Politics don’t belong in academia, but they exist.
  15. She had gotten Pfizer in February, but not the booster. I got the booster a few weeks ago. Hoping it will protect me from any illness. She’s doing ok, so hopefully her vaccines will keep her from more serious illness.
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