Mike Gaynes

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• Very well stated, although I would argue that all generations create messes for the generations to follow. The only difference is the size and complexity of the mess.

  Post: How did it all work for us? Why not now?

  Link to comment from September 26, 2024

• I think you are making some sweeping and highly debatable generalizations here.

  Post: How did it all work for us? Why not now?

  Link to comment from September 26, 2024

• Do you think the further study you mention is not being done on a massive scale all over the world? Of course it is, and on an ongoing basis because both the virus and the vaccine are transitioning regularly.

  Post: Jabs Anyone?

  Link to comment from September 23, 2024

• That's hilarious, Jonathan. I'm an obsessive pursuer of quote verity myself. I haven't heard of Quote Investigator, but I'm putting the link into my phone right now. You're right about particular people whose "quotes" should immediately inspire skepticism. Twain in particular had wondrous genuine quotes but has been credited with multitudes more that he never actually said. Lincoln, Jefferson and Franklin are others in that same boat. And now, oddly, George Carlin. I love correcting those. My wife "quotes" Buddha almost daily. Her, I never correct. I may be obsessive, but I ain't crazy.

  Post: Didn’t Say That by Jonathan Clements

  Link to comment from September 20, 2024

• That was an awesome book, but it was written in 2001. To this day I still leave big tips for hotel maids. "Nomadland" was a wonderful movie along the same lines, about itinerant RVers moving from place to place working backbreaking jobs at Amazon fulfillment centers.

  Post: Can your retirement survive a financial shock? It seems many can’t. Have you thought about it? Rdq

  Link to comment from September 10, 2024

• My first wife and I would go to used furniture auctions occasionally. They would offer stuff from defunct hotels for example. Of course we sometimes bought things we didn't really need, but we also got some fantastic, durable bargains. A massive wooden handpainted Chinese screen I picked up for maybe $75 has served as a decorative room divider in four homes now. I launched my business from a massive desk I got at an auction.

  Post: Matters of Motivation

  Link to comment from September 10, 2024

• Nature gives the best freebies of all. Sunrises and sunsets. Thunderstorms. Whales spouting. Eagles soaring. (We even watched a couple mating on a branch last spring.) Mount Rainier glowing peach-colored at dusk with a cute little cap of clouds. Redwood trees. The thunder of waves crashing on the beach. All definitely sources of irrational excitement for me. I literally jumped up and down like a five-year-old at my first sight of a pen full of pandas in Sichuan. Great subject, Ken.

  Post: Read This for FREE!

  Link to comment from September 9, 2024

• I've been reading the comments here with bemusement, because I don't think I have any daily habits at all. Do or eat something specific at the same time each day? Not since school. Even my "afternoon" nap can happen anytime between 11 and 4. When I go to the gym it's at 9... or maybe noon. Lunch is anywhere between 10:30 and 3. This article has made me feel like there's something seriously wrong with me. I do have one recently acquired habit -- when I turn on my computer at 7am, the very first thing I read is Humble Dollar, something I didn't know existed two years ago. This place is definitely habit-forming.

  Post: The Habits of Old Men by Andrew Forsythe

  Link to comment from September 8, 2024

• Andrew, I've also been known to nap on the sofa, the love seat in the den, the deck chaise lounge and even, in extremis, the passenger seat of the car. In college I had empty classrooms scoped out wherever I was on campus, and in my TV news days I would tuck away in the back seat of the news car. But always, always on an incline. I don't want to completely crash and wreck my night's sleep, so I never nap in the bed.

  Post: The Habits of Old Men by Andrew Forsythe

  Link to comment from September 8, 2024

• One of my Buddhist wife's favorite sayings is "Happiness is the gift you give yourself."

  Post: No Regrets

  Link to comment from September 8, 2024