Dan Smith

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• Jonathan, thanks for the update, you have turned your misfortune into an inspiring tutorial for your friends/readers. Regarding those EOBs, when Health Savings Accounts became available, they were going to make us all smarter consumers of Healthcare services. Sadly, even for simple procedures, the system remains complex and opaque. And about those old and now discarded letters that painted a picture of yourself that you didn’t want your loved ones to see. I now feel better about destroying an evaluation of my scholastic skills done in between my 8th grade and freshman year of high school. It painted a picture of student solidly stuck in the bottom quartile of his peers. Terrible math and reading skills along with the lowest possible scores for writing and sentence structure. I still don’t actually know the difference between a pronoun and a participial, but I try my best to write more gooder. 

  Post: Turned Upside Down

  Link to comment from October 5, 2024

• Ha, used to love MP. That's hilarious BB.

  Post: Our annual give it away meeting 🤑

  Link to comment from October 4, 2024

• That link looks interesting. I will spend some time playing with that. Regarding suspending COLA, and in my best Mr. T voice: I feel sorry for the sucker that proposed that!

  Post: Social Security Solutions

  Link to comment from October 4, 2024

• I like to thing of Dick Quinn as Dana Carvy's Grumpy Old Man's character from Saturday Night Live. "That's the way it was..... and we liked it!

  Post: Our annual give it away meeting 🤑

  Link to comment from October 4, 2024

• Jeez Richard, you're going to ruin your reputation with posts like this! QCD's are often overlooked by those old enough to take advantage. I was able to get several of my tax clients to use them after the standard deduction was changed in 2017.

  Post: Our annual give it away meeting 🤑

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• Failing golf courses are common where I live.

  Post: Misplaced Trust

  Link to comment from October 4, 2024

• Many of the things you mentioned persisted into the early 2000s when I was briefly in the business. This is a good example why regulations such as fiduciary standards exist.

  Post: They Said the Darndest Things by Jonathan Clements

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• Hmm., I don't want to say the name of the outfit, but I think it begins with the letter P.

  Post: They Said the Darndest Things by Jonathan Clements

  Link to comment from October 4, 2024

• Dennis, yes, I'd gladly try any of those you listed. I will need hearing aids at some point, my hearing is borderline at this time. I'm very interested in the AirPods as well as advancements in non-prescription hearing aid technology.

  Post: Two Innovations That Can Improve Your Health by Dennis Friedman

  Link to comment from October 3, 2024

• I often begin conversations about bygone days by saying “in a prior life”, but the truth is we really do have just one life, and it’s going by awful fast. And I’ve always had fun, even when my marriage was a train wreck. I just choose to remember the good stuff; raising the kids, working a hard but fun job, and all the good people that I’ve come to know. Also yes, choices made when young have a rippling effect. I wrote about how a friendship made when I was 19 set me on a career path. Here’s another example: I was 16 when my buddy and me met 2 girls at a McDonalds one weekend. We ended up dating those girls for a spell. Roger broke up with Diana after a year or so. Mary and I lasted through high school. Diana and I became good friends, and introduced me to the girl who would become my wife and the mother of my daughters. Seven grandkids later I give my friend Diana credit for the life I have today. 

  Post: The retirement scam – please don’t call this a rant🥲

  Link to comment from October 3, 2024