Good morning!!!!

[buckeyefarmer]

Burning up one of my remains vacation days. Had another meeting with our financial advisor last evening. We have done well preparing for retirement.
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I need to find a trusty financial advisor. Got a card in the mail yesterday, get a free meal from a nice local restaurant and hear some retirement schpeel

 

[PJSprog]

24°F and light snow flurries this morning, going up to 32° today.

Business trip to Louisville went well yesterday. Local roads were sketchy at best when I left at 6am, but the highways and interstate were fine. The customer's new Quality Engineer and I had the issues under control and a plan to remedy them within about an hour. Met a fantastic welder/fabricator there, and wished we had even just a handful of guys like that at our place. He is the epitome of a professional. Really, everyone I talked to there was the same, which is why we were able to get so much accomplished in such a short time. Made this one of the best work trips I've ever made. Got back home shortly after 5pm. Full day, mostly driving. Had to slow down again for weather about the middle of Illinois, near Mt. Vernon. Lots of ice on everything from there to home. Also, lots of cars in medians and ditches, apparently driven by people who refused to accept basic physics.

While I'm hopeful that this is winter's last hurrah for us, I'm also old enough to remember when we occasionally got snow at Easter.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Sorry to see what’s happening in Ukraine, and wonder if he will try to go further.

Everything icy this morning, but roads were ok. 35° when I left and ice was starting to melt and drop.

I’ve always thought the gozouta can’t be more than the gozinta, but I could be mistaken. I’ll leave it to inquiring minds, not the National inquirer. There’s more than one way to skin a skunk, and when car tires do it, it stinks.

Saw a new insight on a parable the other night.

Then there is this. Hopefully it won’t be deemed unacceptable, and we can still post a joke.

 

[daugen]

Buckeye, those diner breakfasts are notorious for being pitches for a single product.
You need an advisor who hopefully has CFP in his credential list. That means he will know how
to give you competent investment and financial advice and his business dealings with you are held to a higher standard.
Most of the big name places in towns near you are some kind of chain, but that's good because they have training
and oversight built in. Just be careful of Freddie from Freddie's investments...
what's nice about internet is you can research who has what qualifications online. Most will not charge for first meeting.

 

[sodamo]

64°F and no rain.

Likely be sealing grout today, install the last under cabinet light, my shelving unit at end of microwave, and who knows what else. Didn’t go to HD yesterday as we spent time doing other errands. Might opt for HD run later this afternoon with a good list of needs.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[Buppies]

The interaction between the Gulf of Alaska vortex and the subtropical jet stream returns the threat for major cold and stormy weather to North America by March March 7. I realize that many of you are probably sick and tired of reading about that gyre setting up below the Farthest North State. But as a function of a La Nina episode, the sprawling vortex is often recurrent and one of the dominant factors in altering sensible and apparent weather in Canada and the U.S. during the winter months. Forecast rules for the GOAV are easy to remember. If the cold 500MB circulation is stable or stationary, then the lower 48 states and southern Canada will come under a mild, largely inactive, semizonal flow. But should the monster vortex be progressive, and shift to points like the Lake Of The Woods or James Bay, there will be breakout surges of Arctic air that sometimes reach down to Mexico. The saving grace for parts of Dixie and the Eastern Seaboard is that there will often be a Southeast (heat) ridge be present, which keeps the cAk regime from getting to the Interstate 10 corridor. This is exactly the pattern I describe for the first week and a half of March. The chill seen now in much of the continent may alleviate in the 6-10 day range (though I doubt that the Midwest, Great Lakes, and Northeast catch much of a break from the freezing weather). But that big storm in the northeastern Pacific Ocean will be on the move, with snow and cold over the Intermountain Region. Forming what I think will be a Colorado/Trinidad "B" path scenario (eastward to Virginia and then off of the New England coast). the floodgates to bitter cold and a late season snow event will push through the Great Plains and Midwest into the Northeast before the middle of March. Then, with any luck, the subtropical high in Florida will expand, and slowly force out the tundra air mass. Have a nice weekend, everyone!
How about this toppop and he has been spot on all winter

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Nice pellet gun, LS - do you know what the muzzle velocity is with the .22 barrel?

The muzzle velocity with the .22 cal is 830 fps.... still pretty strong. I like the .22 for varmit hunting, hits them pretty hard. I like to use the 'superpoint' pellets, definitely more accurate. Here's a pic of the two....


There is quite a difference between the two.

 

[Buppies]

For those interested this is one of the gentleman I read every day for weather

 

[sodamo]

Buckeye, those diner breakfasts are notorious for being pitches for a single product.
You need an advisor who hopefully has CFP in his credential list. That means he will know how
to give you competent investment and financial advice and his business dealings with you are held to a higher standard.
Most of the big name places in towns near you are some kind of chain, but that's good because they have training
and oversight built in. Just be careful of Freddie from Freddie's investments...
what's nice about internet is you can research who has what qualifications online. Most will not charge for first meeting.

Good points Drew,
Linked up with these guys Edelman Financial Engines | Investment & Wealth Management about 20 years ago back when their only office was in Va and local to me at the time. I still have the same planner person but any grunt work gets passed to a team member, but that usually doesn’t involve me much. They only manage our investments but I do provide a detailed financial statement twice a year for review and discussion. Me being me, I sometimes like to deviate from their master plan so we discuss.
I have read most, maybe all the books Ric wrote over the years, even attended a couple of seminars years ago. They are fee based.

We had spent about 10 years with another large firm that was somewhat military oriented. Although they did get me off to a good start I was never fully satisfied that I was other than just an “account”, never that personal. Quite different with Edelman as my planner will recall why/how a certain choice came about. So not just technical expertise, but relationship as well.

 

[Dftodd]

Buckeye, those diner breakfasts are notorious for being pitches for a single product.
You need an advisor who hopefully has CFP in his credential list. That means he will know how
to give you competent investment and financial advice and his business dealings with you are held to a higher standard.
Most of the big name places in towns near you are some kind of chain, but that's good because they have training
and oversight built in. Just be careful of Freddie from Freddie's investments...
what's nice about internet is you can research who has what qualifications online. Most will not charge for first meeting.

I was thinking along similar lines when he said he is getting a free breakfast.

That sound like the approach that they use for "Time Share Condos"