Thread: PessOptimist's Account Talk

I bet you have granite counter tops in your kitchen. Bulldaddy.

kona: No granite in the home.


Birtch: Have not, will not get to Durham/Dover, too much else going on. It is beautiful this time of year.


I had meant to update the trip tonight but as usual drama appeared.


Following the itinerary am in South Yarmouth MA tonight. Saw Plymouth rock for the second time. It appears to need some more concrete work.


PO

Sigh, vacation over. Flying back to pahonicks tomorrow to 108F.

Learned about a use for vaping devices I had not thought of while visiting old friends. The I see it posted here by someone from this area. Hmmm.

Anyway, over budget and about a week later than planned. I should be a .gov contractor.

FWIW kona, EVERYONE I visited up here does have granite counter tops.

PO

Yeah I'm back. Maybe more later about the trip. Another poster's post reminded me of something I keep neglecting. I have two old IRAs that I keep forgetting about.

One is a CD that I always miss the maturity date on. This year I was reminded. It matures on 9/9/14. Of course I remember this on a Friday night. My credit union has a branch open tomorrow. Maybe I can get this done. The CD has been paying .25% for years. I am going to put it in a 6 mo CD that pays .4%. Just to get it moved. Maybe not, I'll see what tomorrow brings. Get it out of the TD North CD and reasonably available while I decide what to do.

There is the other one. Chase Bank. Not sure what it was when I started it years ago but it has become Chase. About the same balance. It pays .0009%. I need to put that somewhere else too. CU IRA savings pays .2%. Dismal, yes but at least it will be where I can figure out what to with it.

Several years ago I was all fired up to open a USAA or similar investment account with this money. Then I didn't. Getting it close to home and available is the first step.

Advice solicited. They are both traditional IRAs. The amounts? I know you want to know. Almost enough to buy a cheap coal powered all electric vehicle. Almost. Enough to buy a hybrid. A really cheap hybrid. Enough to buy a fairly nice gasoline or diesel powered vehicle.

PO

Aloha and welcome home (tsptalk,your cyber home)

I hope you dug deep and managed to enjoy yourself a little bit on your vacation. Did the 'sig' let you off the leash from time to time? (Jk) How did your packing arrangements work out? Did the 'sig' pack enough shirts, socks, big-boy undies, etc etc....
to last the trip? I know it was a big concern of yours !

seriously, I hope you did enjoy your trip. Can't wait for the camp talk.

I junked my 5% CDs at the market bottom in December 2008 and pumped the money directly into many, many stinky equities. The rest is history.

Originally Posted by PessOptimist

Yeah I'm back. Maybe more later about the trip. Another poster's post reminded me of something I keep neglecting. I have two old IRAs that I keep forgetting about.
Then I didn't. Getting it close to home and available is the first step.
Advice solicited. They are both traditional IRAs. PO

I purchased $10K of Tesla stock in my traditional IRA last April for $205. It is now $276. 35% increase over 4 months (that's a 100% annual rate!). Go, Gigafactory, Go!!! Not that TESLA will necessarily continue to go up, but there has to be LOTS of options that return better than 0.009%!

Originally Posted by konakathy

Aloha and welcome home (tsptalk,your cyber home)

I hope you dug deep and managed to enjoy yourself a little bit on your vacation. Did the 'sig' let you off the leash from time to time? (Jk) How did your packing arrangements work out? Did the 'sig' pack enough shirts, socks, big-boy undies, etc etc....
to last the trip? I know it was a big concern of yours !

seriously, I hope you did enjoy your trip. Can't wait for the camp talk.

All in all I did enjoy it. Never off leash for more than a couple of hours but wth do I need to do in the state I left 42 years ago anyway except look around at old things or old eople who never liked me anyway. Laundry was done quite often on the trip. On the cruise it came with the cabin so was done every day. Therefore I had clean stuff to put on every day except a couple. As expected, most of the clothing in the luggage was never worn.

No camp talk yet, still coping with having taken off a month from life and work.

PO

Received this link today with a message from a coworker about do we need legislation for this.

Congressman Seeks to Ban Feds from Watching Porn While at Work : FedSmith.com Blogs

Apparently some agency's are making it necessary. Maybe someone should shake up the EPAs cyber security group? Looking at their org chart, they don't have one. Don't even appear to have an IT group. Maybe they call it something else? Maybe they are exempt from all the rules other agencies fall under?

I can't speak for other agencies but we get threatening e-mails and briefings all the time about what we can and cannot attempt to access on the internet on .gov computers. There should be absolutely no need for this bill if other long standing rules are being followed

Of course this is the EPA. No one appears to be watching them at all.

I guess some feds are more equal than others.

PO

Originally Posted by PessOptimist

Received this link today with a message from a coworker about do we need legislation for this.

Congressman Seeks to Ban Feds from Watching Porn While at Work : FedSmith.com Blogs

Apparently some agency's are making it necessary. Maybe someone should shake up the EPAs cyber security group? Looking at their org chart, they don't have one. Don't even appear to have an IT group. Maybe they call it something else? Maybe they are exempt from all the rules other agencies fall under?

I can't speak for other agencies but we get threatening e-mails and briefings all the time about what we can and cannot attempt to access on the internet on .gov computers. There should be absolutely no need for this bill if other long standing rules are being followed

Of course this is the EPA. No one appears to be watching them at all.

I guess some feds are more equal than others.

PO

These porno junkies must be wearing the same brand of panties as burrocrat.

I don't know where you work but if I had been caught visiting a PORN site from and on a Government computer I could have been fired.