AUTHOR: 1PF on 6/26/2024 FIRST: Jonathan Clements on 6/27/2024 | RECENT: David Powell on 6/30/2024
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I've started taking 26-minute NASA naps. Allowing a minute to transition to calm, I set my computer timer for 27 minutes. I sit back in my recliner with feet up, cover my eyes, and soon drift off. Sometimes I'm refreshed and ready to rise in even less time. After a nap with this method, since my sleep deficit is intact, I've had no trouble at night falling and staying asleep. Wakefulness at night when I'm occasionally stressed is a different story...
Yep, HD every morning, although since I've never learned to like the taste of coffee, in my case it's half coffee, half hot chocolate.
Then after HD, on to the puzzles and Duolingo...
Yep, here at my CCRC I help solve residents' tech problems four afternoons a week. I keep the Ws to myself (Wednesdays and weekends), along with all mornings and evenings. And I've so far avoided joining any group that meets more than once a month. :-)
My cataracts had been slowly developing for more than 10 years. The morning after my first cataract surgery I looked in the mirror and (shock!) had aged more than 10 years...
Yes, indeed, Jonathan could consider a trike. After my hip replacement when I never regained confidence in my dismount from my semirecumbent bike, I traded it (the bike; I'd already traded in the hip) for a semirecumbent performance trike. Now I'm happily zooming around my CCRC campus and the college town.
In Wordle, the three words I found using the top 15 in decreasing order of frequency are stare, pound, climb. What are yours? The four words using the top 20 are light, candy, power, bumfs. In Connections, by visual I meant being able to see word groupings, not images.
My thinking style is analytical and visual. After I'd been avoiding Connections due to the more inductive reasoning needed, this post (thanks!) got me to try it. I found a method that works for me: I take a screenshot of the board, then when I think I have a group I use the online annotations tool to underline them in one color, the next group in another color, and so on. The colors help me see the remaining possibilities and revise as needed, then submit the groups. So far, so good. With Wordle, a couple years ago I found online the frequency of letters used in English words. From the top 15 in decreasing frequency I composed three 5-letter words. I always use the same first word. Then I either use the second word if there's not much to go on from the first result or I choose a second word guided by the result, and so on. So far, so good: (mean) 3.81 guesses, no fails. Happy to share the three words if anyone wishes. My Fire tablet has a Wordle app that offers unlimited games per day. I used it for a while to try a suggestion I found online of four words that use the top 20 letters, but even though it usually captured all five letters in the word, I didn't like having only two remaining guesses to solve the anagram.
The Kindle preview of The BEST of Jonathan Clements didn't show the ToC. (That wasn't the only reason I just bought the book. :-) )
Here are the main sections:
Your Money and Your Family
Your Money and Your House
Your Money and the Market
Making Sure It Adds Up
Lists to Help Your Money Along
Your Money, Bulls, and Bears
Your Money and Wall Street
Your Money and Your Brain
Your Money and Your Strategy
Money Over Your Lifetime
Your Money and Your Well-Being
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I've started taking 26-minute NASA naps. Allowing a minute to transition to calm, I set my computer timer for 27 minutes. I sit back in my recliner with feet up, cover my eyes, and soon drift off. Sometimes I'm refreshed and ready to rise in even less time. After a nap with this method, since my sleep deficit is intact, I've had no trouble at night falling and staying asleep. Wakefulness at night when I'm occasionally stressed is a different story...
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Link to comment from May 17, 2025
Wish I'd had these ideas when *I* was young.
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Link to comment from May 17, 2025
Yep, HD every morning, although since I've never learned to like the taste of coffee, in my case it's half coffee, half hot chocolate. Then after HD, on to the puzzles and Duolingo...
Post: Creature of Habit
Link to comment from May 15, 2025
Yep, here at my CCRC I help solve residents' tech problems four afternoons a week. I keep the Ws to myself (Wednesdays and weekends), along with all mornings and evenings. And I've so far avoided joining any group that meets more than once a month. :-)
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Link to comment from May 9, 2025
couldn’t figure out how to post a picture Jonathan, is there a way for us to post an image? I didn't see one in the Style Guide.
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Link to comment from April 29, 2025
My cataracts had been slowly developing for more than 10 years. The morning after my first cataract surgery I looked in the mirror and (shock!) had aged more than 10 years...
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Link to comment from April 26, 2025
Yes, indeed, Jonathan could consider a trike. After my hip replacement when I never regained confidence in my dismount from my semirecumbent bike, I traded it (the bike; I'd already traded in the hip) for a semirecumbent performance trike. Now I'm happily zooming around my CCRC campus and the college town.
Post: Tasting Retirement
Link to comment from April 25, 2025
In Wordle, the three words I found using the top 15 in decreasing order of frequency are stare, pound, climb. What are yours? The four words using the top 20 are light, candy, power, bumfs. In Connections, by visual I meant being able to see word groupings, not images.
Post: Building Connections by Marjorie Kondrack
Link to comment from April 24, 2025
My thinking style is analytical and visual. After I'd been avoiding Connections due to the more inductive reasoning needed, this post (thanks!) got me to try it. I found a method that works for me: I take a screenshot of the board, then when I think I have a group I use the online annotations tool to underline them in one color, the next group in another color, and so on. The colors help me see the remaining possibilities and revise as needed, then submit the groups. So far, so good. With Wordle, a couple years ago I found online the frequency of letters used in English words. From the top 15 in decreasing frequency I composed three 5-letter words. I always use the same first word. Then I either use the second word if there's not much to go on from the first result or I choose a second word guided by the result, and so on. So far, so good: (mean) 3.81 guesses, no fails. Happy to share the three words if anyone wishes. My Fire tablet has a Wordle app that offers unlimited games per day. I used it for a while to try a suggestion I found online of four words that use the top 20 letters, but even though it usually captured all five letters in the word, I didn't like having only two remaining guesses to solve the anagram.
Post: Building Connections by Marjorie Kondrack
Link to comment from April 24, 2025
The Kindle preview of The BEST of Jonathan Clements didn't show the ToC. (That wasn't the only reason I just bought the book. :-) ) Here are the main sections: Your Money and Your Family Your Money and Your House Your Money and the Market Making Sure It Adds Up Lists to Help Your Money Along Your Money, Bulls, and Bears Your Money and Wall Street Your Money and Your Brain Your Money and Your Strategy Money Over Your Lifetime Your Money and Your Well-Being
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Link to comment from April 21, 2025