meara, your friend picked a good day to be born!
Thanks, everyone!!
I like money better than people. People can so rarely be exchanged for goods and/or services!
Willow ,'Showtime'
Natter 78: I might need to watch some Buffy for inspiration
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Tom Scola - Apr 03, 2025 3:23:17 pm PDT #6544 of 6578
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Calli - Apr 03, 2025 3:29:29 pm PDT #6545 of 6578
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Happy birthday, Tom!
JenP - Apr 03, 2025 4:15:49 pm PDT #6546 of 6578
That's a very thoughtful thing to do, Gud.
shrift - Apr 03, 2025 5:34:35 pm PDT #6547 of 6578
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Happy birthday, Tom!
-t - Apr 03, 2025 7:55:27 pm PDT #6548 of 6578
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ok, I know right now is a silly time to check on the old 401k, but I haven’t looked at DH’s in a long time and had forgotten how to get to it, so getting a notice in the mail that included the website motivated me to look it up. Of course, I could not log in, so I called Customer Care or whatever they call it who could not help me log in because it was after business hours but did immediately tell me my balance so at least I know it hasn’t completely vanished like I sometimes worry it has. So then I looked at my current 401k and the handy calculator that tells me I will never be able to retire and noticed that while if I wait until I’m 65 to retire I will have more money than if I retire at 59 1/2, the gap between what I will have to live on and what they think should be my target doesn’t change much. And when I started trying to figure out if I could start drawing on a 401k while still working (answer unclear, please try again) I came across something that said if you separate from your job after you are 55 you can withdraw with no penalties and that made me feel *much* better about the prospect of my department being cut or the whole company going out of business. I’d still be in pretty dire straits but not nearly as bad as I thought
dcp - Apr 03, 2025 8:42:26 pm PDT #6549 of 6578
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
if you separate from your job after you are 55 you can withdraw with no penalties
Correct.
Reference: [link]
(Scroll down the list of exceptions to the one for "Separation from service.")
-t - Apr 03, 2025 9:00:51 pm PDT #6550 of 6578
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Thanks for finding that!
Laura - Apr 04, 2025 4:56:36 am PDT #6551 of 6578
Our wings are not tired.
Regrets. I told DH at the beginning of the year that I wanted to pull everything out of the stock market before he took office. I didn't because I hoped it would just be volatile, but that in the long term it would recover. I should have gone with my first instinct. Today is a bloodbath before opening. This man is not only going to drive us into a Depression, but then he is going to top it off by starting a nuclear war. I can't understand why anyone supports this insanity. eta: When I looked earlier, it was down 11%, now it is "only" down 3%. I have to stop looking.
askye - Apr 04, 2025 8:10:07 am PDT #6552 of 6578
Thrive to spite them
Happy Birthday Scotland...sorry it's belated.
-t - Apr 04, 2025 8:12:01 am PDT #6553 of 6578
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
::bagpipes::