Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Peek a Boo!


17 comments:

  1. The hurrier I go the behinder I get.

    What time is the vote today?

    I’m grateful for the sweet comments after our little car crash. Susan, yes, I didn't sleep much the first night.

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    1. I don't know when the vote is, listener; I'm not following it all that closely. And you may put me down as an old fogey, but I generally don't see what business a sixteen year old has driving a car/truck, especially in dangerous conditions, and without adult supervision to boot.

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    2. Thanks, Alan.

      They are still debating the rules!
      Middle schoolers could do better.

      Oh, and Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) announces this morning that she is running for re-election in 2020.

      Interesting timing, eh?

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    3. Regarding the pickup truck:

      I don’t know how it is in CA, but in VT and NH one may obtain a learner’s permit at 15 and a driver’s license at 16. Nothing wrong with him driving the truck. And he was only 7 miles from home.

      Actually, the family has two pick up trucks. We learned this when the insurance agent called to tell us that the insurance card he showed us is for their other pickup truck’s VIN number. Fortunately, this truck is also insured by a different provider.
      Waiting on the appraisal go-ahead.

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    4. Same out here, plus a lower age exemption for farm use. But I'm a crotchety old guy. I got my first car (excepting one I had for several weeks, two or three years earlier) when I was a month short of 29, and our daughter did when she was, let's see, about 24 (HS + college + art school + working for a year or so). I made sure she had a driver's license before she went off to college, but then she had to take lessons again when the bus she depended on was about to be discontinued. Relearning at 24 is very different from learning at 15. [To be very precise, one can get a learner's permit in California at 15.5 y/o, and a (limited) license at 16.] The limited license system in California (new since I was a kid) has had a dramatic [good!] effect on the crash, injury and death rates of young drivers.

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    5. I got my first car at age 29 as a wedding gift from my in-laws. That's when I learned to drive. But that's me. Our son, IIRC, got his driver's license at 16 and soon thereafter would drive our car on occasion. I don't recall when he had a car he could call his own.

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  6. Bill--thinking about savings interest rates again.. My experience with 401(k)'s was that they served to protect current income from taxes, but varied between poor and awful as investments. When I retired I moved the money to our bond brokerage account (without penalty) and it has been doing very well. I started investing through a bond brokerage about forty years ago; back then I put it into municipal bonds. Now it goes into well-curated and frequently updated baby-bond portfolios and suchlike.

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  8. Halfway through Downtown Abbey, the preznit was impeached.

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