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Anything Goes: Retirement Savings and Costs
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Saturday, May 16, 2015. Retirement Savings and Costs. As more and more of the baby boomers reach retirement, there seems to be a steady flow of articles and advice in magazines and newspapers, on TV, and all over the internet about how we should plan out our expenditures and budget for the future. But there's still the potential for a reduction, if only because the odds on anyone going out to eat three times a day seems a bit extreme. Electricity: Maybe not such a big difference, but I'm sitting at my la...
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Anything Goes: June 2014
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Wednesday, June 25, 2014. Who carries out simple functions and has little or no authority. Flunky: An assistant who does menial work; a toady. Flunktionary: A low-level employee in a business or government agency with minimal authority and an over-inflated sense of self-importance. Flunktionaries do not do that. Flunktionaries call or email you and say that you have to redo the forms and resubmit them. (If you try to ignore them, they will bombard you with emails and voice-mail messages asking where ...
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Anything Goes: February 2015
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Sunday, February 22, 2015. Old Photos of the Week #7. And one more round of dinnertime photos from the DC Comics retreat. Next to Milt was his assistant, who I believe was named Helen (and her last name escapes me). Jeanette Winley (l.). Editor / artist Sal Amendola worked on a variety of titles, most especially New Talent Showcase. Sunday, February 22, 2015. Saturday, February 14, 2015. Old Photos of the Week #6. Still more dinner photos from DC's company retreat at Great Gorge, NJ. Are Charlie McDaid; ...
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Anything Goes: May 2014
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Monday, May 12, 2014. The season has begun. Bring on the summer! Monday, May 12, 2014. Sunday, May 4, 2014. More Adventures with Alex. The combination of Rebecca going to Los Angeles for a conference and Chuck having three days of training programs at work made for a four-day visit by Alex to "Gamma" and "Gappa.". Chuck took the train to Farmingdale and stayed over, so father and son got some quality time together. We were quite smug, proclaiming how Alex has slept through the night on Tuesday, as Ch...
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Anything Goes: September 2014
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Thursday, September 25, 2014. Farewell to The Captain. I became a Yankees fan in the days of Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, and Whitey Ford. I'm sure that I saw their last games, though I doubt that we even realized at the time that that's what they were. Certainly they did not go out in a storybook ending like Derek Jeter did this evening. Up comes Derek. and he promptly singles to right field and drives in the winning run for a walk-off victory. And yet, there it is. Thursday, September 25, 2014. Is it jus...
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Anything Goes: April 2014
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Sunday, April 27, 2014. How many TV shows, movies and books have used a scene in which characters are driving down a rural highway and find themselves caught in speed trap? You've seen it. The speed limit suddenly drops from 55 mph to 25 and there's the stereotypical pot-bellied redneck deputy sitting right there ready to pull them over and drag them off to pay an exorbitant fine to a grumpy old judge or else spend a night in a one-cell jail. We have a number of roads nearby with schools on them and the ...
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Anything Goes: March 2015
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015. Like a Car with a New Set of Radials. When I started working way back when, retirement seemed like a far away dream. I got my first paycheck in the summer of 1969, when I started working as a parking lot attendant at the Abraham and Straus department store in Hempstead. That was my part-time job through college and even for a few years after I started working at DC Comics. After all that, as of the end of the work day today, I'm retired. Well, not fully. And I've got some other p...
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Anything Goes: Retirement Report
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Sunday, April 26, 2015. Okay, so I've been retired for almost four weeks and what have I done with all my "free" time? Well, there's the twelve hours spread over four different days that I spent at Combined Resources, wrapping up a couple of audits and other end-of-quarter business. I visited DC Comics twice, once for the retirement luncheon for six of my former compatriots and the other for the "getting out of town" last day ceremony. I ran and played Adult Ed volleyball on seven evenings. My favorite i...
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Anything Goes: A 'Mazing Fan
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Sunday, May 10, 2015. Since Sammi moved to Virginia, we've made an annual tradition of meeting somewhere halfway between every spring. In past years, we've met in Baltimore, Washington DC and Annapolis. This year we decided to make our meeting on the DelMarVa peninsula and Dover fit the bill as a midpoint. While flipping through one of his boxes, I came across a bag with four issues of 'Mazing Man. I loved that book.". I replied, "I wrote that book.". Woody, 'Mazing Man. Sunday, May 10, 2015. Sammi's "Ev...
