I am taking a mental health day, today. With everything that’s been going on in our loves, my weekdays and weekends have been packed. Even weekend days where we don’t have to do anything else, we have to go visit the MIL in the skilled facility, or get a million phone calls from her about how she wants to go home. It’s draining.
In addition I felt like I’m on the verge of getting sick for a couple of weeks now. So today, I’m taking a day off. C has class, so it’s just me and the dogs and books.
Since I stopped doing Your Money Fridays, and started my personal finance blog (now titled The Dog Ate My Wallet), I haven’t written much here about personal finance. But I thought this was interesting:
It’s estimated that Gen Y will need around $2 million in savings in order to retire comfortably. And this is assuming they don’t retire until 70.
In slightly less general terms, it’s estimated that Gen Yers will need 18.7 times their final salary saved up and Gen Xers will need 16.1.
Pensions are almost non-existent and government assistance is declining. Guess it’s time to start saving.
We’re a Nielsen family. Not for TV, they wouldn’t want us for TV. We are a Nielsen family for groceries. I signed up and on Friday we received our scanner. Now, every time we shop, I need to scan in our purchases, put in what we paid, and then the little scanner transmits the data back to Nielsen. I think we might officially be part of the consumer price index…
In exchange, we’ll qualify for gift cards and special promotions (hopefully on items we buy).
It’s cool, though C thinks it’s creepy as the scanner plugs right into our router.
I blame daylight savings time. Or maybe I blame technology that is too advancde for my own good.
Last night, I set my clock back one hour before going to bed. This is what I have always done- set the clock to the new time as I go to bed. I did this forgetting that I have a newfangled clock that resets itself, automatically. Not that it checks a satellite like my computer or phone, it just sets itself back an hour. So I set my clock back and hour and my clock set itself back an hour… Hilarity ensues?
On round 4 of antibiotics for June, the second round of Baytril, and she’s finally responding the way you expect an animal (or person) to respond- ie the swelling in her glands is significantly down. We don’t know if the infection finally broke, if it has to do with the fact that it was a bug bite that caused it (and a google search seemed to indicate that those took longer to respond) or if the first round of Baytril was past its expiriation date. We don’t know, but don’t really care. She’s getting better and that’s all that matters.
The US Department of Energy and the US Patent Office consider all cold fusion machines to be hoaxes. The fact that the US Patent Office refuses to even look at cold fusion patents could lead to the US falling behind in race for clean, cheap energy.
They say physics rules out the possibility. Are we that arrogant, to believe we know everything about physics?
An Italian physicist has conducted two successful public demonstrations of his cold fusion machine. The physicists who witnessed the demonstrations were won over. But Rossi won’t discuss details, because he work can not be patent protected.
I love sewer explosions that send manhole covers 150ft in the air as much as the next MythBusters fan. It was a cool experiment. However, I really, really want to talk about the truck bed liner.
The first response at our house- why aren’t they making siding out of that? I’m not certain pieces of siding individually coated in the truck bed liner would have the same explosion proofing effects; it may be that the entire structure needs to be coated in one continuous layer, but still- a bomb proof house. How handy would that be for the zombie apocalypse?
Normally when I hear that someone is going to attempt to sing Queen, I cringe. Freddy Mercury had a once in three or four generations voice. Even when people attempt the “simpler” Queen songs, they end up sounding thin. So I was nervous when I heard that the Dartmouth Aires had gotten Queen for their superstar medley. I really enjoy this group on The Sing-Off, and was a little afraid for them.
Apparently the way to pull off Queen when you’re an amateur is to have lots of voices to pull from. They did an amazing job. I was thrilled.
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