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I doubt I actually have a purpose. No more purpose in the big (or small for that matter) scheme of things than a guy on a golf course. But I am definitely struggling. Perhaps the greatest struggle will be holding it together in complex situations being old. My enemy is not death, but decay…

My mom was subst. Teaching in an urban hs up until age 83. Not sure if that’s the oldest sub on record.

She doesn’t need the $. Like me I guess, enjoys the humanity of it all…but I definitely need the $$ right now.

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[quote=njtosd][quote=scaredyclassic]If I move in there and there’s not a bunch of liberal wackos I’m suing.[/quote]

That would be such a fun complaint to write. By the way, are you watching Better Call Saul?[/quote]

Yes with my 2 kids still at home. They are learning so much. We all love slipping jimmy, mike, tuco, the whole crew

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Right. You will become like minded or you will be forced out. The sign is too vague to be actionable

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If I move in there and there’s not a bunch of liberal wackos I’m suing.

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It seems like increasingly few of us are free to pursue life on whatever terms they wish. Many seem to have trouble replacing comparable employment after age 50.

My wife and I were in lowes buying some allegedly necessary crap. Other even older hunchy dudes were following their old ladies down long aisles. Agh. They might be going to lunch at hometown buffet. Then I went to a dentist for medical type care like an old dude. I can’t do it. I can’t be off all the time.

I do have a vision of being able to help my kids with material assistance in child care, either personally or with money. That was by far the most stressful financial struggle of my life.

Temecula …old traditions, new opportunities (I think that’s the town motto)

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[quote=temeculaguy]The future Mrs. TG and I recently discussed our retirement plans as they are only 6 years away and the first discussion point was do we want to stay in Temecula. We don’t need the idyllic setting to raise children or the great schools. Between us we have 6 adult children with only one still in college that comes home intermittently, the rest visit only for holidays and most have families of their own. None live here, 2 live in SD and the rest in No. Cal. So over Easter they were all here, one of the few times 3200+ sq feet came in handy. The days and nights were spent at wineries, the casino, old town, etc. and all the “kids” said they love coming to Temecula, it’s like a vacation for them and if they could, they would move here. They begged us to never leave.

We talked for a while that we will probably never leave because this little town offers us more than most other towns or cities could ever offer us. The most important thing it has offered us is amenities without the expense that has allowed us to retire early (55) with a retirement war chest that others would envy. If I laid out the details you’d be mad but the gist of it is that at retirement our nut (housing, utilities, expenses) will be but 25% of our income. Disposable income could reach 5 figures monthly, we’ve plotted a course of a 7 days cruise and a 7 day Euro vacation on a monthly basis in retirement and at an age 10 years before most. Dying is our only enemy.

Isn’t that the goal? Lower your overhead, enjoy life and do so without moving to a place too far from grandkids or the things you enjoy.

So yes, I’m staying in Temecula, it beats Palm springs, Florida or Arizona, despite the high taxes of California. I am not surprised that the article
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I’m not persuaded that the goal is to enjoy life. Suffering for purpose, struggle, duty…seem more like the goal. I cannot visualize myself arriving … I see my life as perpetual trekking. Like moses, never making it to the promised land.

However I am taking spring break off.

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You might want to check the history of IBM Watson. It is ‘Deep Blue’s spawn, not something weird (yet again) from Microsoft.

With the Microsoft chatbot, some people realized that they were dealing with a parrot, a not particularly bright one at that, instead of an AI. An AI would have asked why the person wanted it to repeat everything said.

PS: IBM Watson bought some critical medical companies recently. It would probably do better at analyzing xrays, CTs and MRIs than sending them off to some cheap sweatshop in India. It will probably be more consistent than can be achieved even with well trained individuals.

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-ibm-watson-is-transforming-healthcare-2015-7%5B/quote%5D

I’ve very familiar with Watson…. I saw it on Jeopardy one time 🙂

I think more impressively is if Watson can replace a $300-400/hr attorney. We have way too many lawyers and folks in the legal profession in this country that way over complicates simple things, more so than doctors.[/quote]

It will be tricky to program the machine to do the type of bulls hitting premium lawyers do…

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Atul Gawande on too much medicine…

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/11/overkill-atul-gawande

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Let’s focus on the best yielding 20% of med. Serv8ces, take 15% of total savings and have national dental care, and pay down debt with the rest.

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Xx

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And yet my kids want to leave. What’s up with that?

Ah, they’ll be back or back to something similar…

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And yet my kids want to leave. What’s up with that?

Ah, they’ll be back or back to something similar…

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And yet my kids want to leave. What’s up with that?

Ah, they’ll be back or back to something similar…

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And yet my kids want to leave. What’s up with that?

Ah, they’ll be back or back to something similar…

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And yet my kids want to leave. What’s up with that?

Ah, they’ll be back or back to something similar…

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