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Same here!

Mine is about 5 years younger, but she look like she's 17. I got my hair done, so people are less likely to think she's my daughter. Or grand-daughter.

John

Thanks. It's mentally bookmarked. I've also thought about SW Arkansas since it is very close to Texas where stuff happens in electronics.

Oh yes, there sure was.

Yep, they are at it again. They already suckered people into 55% for school tax increases so prop taxes are creeping up via the back door.

Got to learn a new language though. Like the correct pronounciation of jaw-jah.

be on

Lutheran. Catholics would probably have requested Syrah or Merlot.

Youngster! Our oldest _child_ turns 47 in January.

I'm just 2.5 months short of the magical 69 ;-)

...Jim Thompson

But those aren't the industrial designers among them. The telco optics guys truly think the butterfly is the ultimate cat's meouw. I'll never understand.

Sometimes in RF you don't have much of a choice. If you want all the wires coming out one side you end up with more cavities in the tin box. Mucho dolares.

Arkansas may be close to Texas, but it's still a *long* way from anything.

Typical. "For the children."

Not so much. Of course the locals have an accent but many here do not. The hardness of the accent is inversely proportinal to the education. I found that in the Mid-West, also.

Lutheran? I thought they were all in Minnie-ZO-ta. I had you pegged as an evangelical, of some variety.

Or that you're a dirty old man ;-)

I think I remarked before about having dinner with my 46 year old daughter... the dirty looks I got ;-)

...Jim Thompson

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Didn't you just have your 17th birthday?

Yep. Last February 29.

...Jim Thompson

Nope, it's the Missouri Synod. But a lot of our members are from up north.

...and she gets the AARP junk mail. ;-)

That's an easy one. Count the number of people with C-64s and the number of people with bibles. ;-)

Did any hotel rooms have C-64s? ;-)

Out here they bombarded with several membership offers and then it stopped. Is there much of an advantage to become a member? I've heard from people that they received lots of junk mail afterwards.

Hotel room discounts, which can be substantial, are the only advantage I've found. I'm not sure it's worth funding their lobby though.

I use only the AARP prescription insurance. Seems OK. BUT I'm going to move all my prescriptions to Sam's Club... $4 for most stuff, even better prices than Walgreen's on second tier and non-covered. BUT keep the insurance for any catastrophic event.

For Medicare supplemental I use Mutual of Omaha (Plan F)... only had to pay for one lab test (cholesterol test ordered more than once a year... jerk doctor, now I'm wary) in the nearly 5 years I've had it.

...Jim Thompson

So if I understand it correctly AARP would only make sense for folks who are already on Medicare. Our Kaiser HSA-type plan has meds included but I am considering whether to ratchet down to the non-med covered plan. It's a one-way street, when some ailment kicks in they won't let you back in. Would shave off $50-$60/month and we never really need anything. But who knows.

Good for you. But I am often wondering how an elderly person without an engineer's wits and without family/friend support can possibly find their way through that maze. There's lots of folks who don't even have a high school education and even if they do it was half a century ago.

Can you belong to AARP _before_ you're "of age"?

I never had doctor office visits and medication coverage before retirement... just catastrophic coverage insurance... it paid out a bundle though when I had a heart attack at age 58. Of course I never thought something like that would happen to me... so be wary!

My doctor pretty much jumps to my tune now, has stopped trying to foist Lipitor on me, particularly since my recent BP was 122/78 ;-)

Unfortunately my recent so called prostatitis diagnosis may actually be that I tore something while tree climbing ;-) CT Scan on Tuesday.

Sort of funny how everyone castigates American medicine, but today I walked my doctor's order for a CT scan into the imaging lab, got scheduled for Tuesday morning. Try that in Brit-land ;-)

...Jim Thompson

AFAIK beginning at 50 years old.

Oh yeah, we'll keep medical. It's just that paying an extra $50+ a month for prescription coverage seems highish when you never use any meds.

Or our northern neighbors. IIRC they even started a "wait time reduction fund".

Age 50.

I've had full coverage for 35 years and never used it for myself until I left (three days for A-Fib) and that was under COBRA. My wife did use the insurance a couple of times, though other than the three weeks in the hospital with the brat, no hospitalization.

Isn't Lipitor for cholesterol (rather than BP)? My BP was through the roof (260/180) when I was admitted with A-Fib a couple of years ago. I've since been on a beta-blocker and it's been reasonable. They had me on an ACE inhibitor too, but that was attacking my joints so I stopped taking it. The beta-blocker seems to be handling alone it because I've usually been between 110/60 and

Tree climbing? Aren't you a little...

I had a CT scan on an hour's notice. The echo cardiogram wasn't showing what they wanted to see so sent me for the CT scan. No emergency, just wanted to take a good look at the heart before they discharged me.