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I've been a home-based PR consultant for nearly 30 years -- now mostly for small medical device companies -- after a spectacularly undistinguished career in TV news. I live in Bremerton, Washington, where I still referee soccer, sing barbershop, perform in local theater, pump a little iron and deliver for Meals on Wheels.
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Same here, Jack. I don’t understand the stuff, and to me the volatility isn’t worth the risk. Especially to my stomach lining.
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Link to comment from August 8, 2025
Greg, I can absolutely relate to the tut-tutting and refusal to buy. I will only service my one addiction in this world, Diet Pepsi, if it’s on sale, and then I buy it in bulk. Matter of principle. I believe most Americans relate to grocery prices on a similarly visceral level, whether or not affordability is an issue, and there will be great anger at these increases. But for those who weigh every penny of their grocery costs — the folks I talked to yesterday while delivering Meals on Wheels – there’s more fear than anger.
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Link to comment from August 8, 2025
I was speaking of mankind in general. Most of human civilization was still on a barter economy, as with your examples of cattle and salt, until the last 1000 years or so.
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Link to comment from July 18, 2025
David, did you miss that particular cultural touchstone? One of the best songs of its era. ”I want my MTV…”
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Link to comment from July 9, 2025
Patrick, I totally agree with your final sentiment. It was only after I took my first walk through a Chinese hutong, and then later got off a train in the Chinese countryside, that I truly understood how much I had won life’s lottery by being born where I was, into the situation I was, and at the time I was. So many of the circumstances of our lives are dependent on factors we have no control over – the conditions under which we come into the world.
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Link to comment from July 6, 2025
Dan, I’m sure that any wise advisor would have suggested you do it your way rather than mine! Congrats on being able to buy a house so young. I was in my late 30s and still living paycheck to paycheck before I could start. Also, my final home will still have something on the mortgage when I leave it feet first. At 3% I have no intention of paying it off.
Post: Spend Nothing
Link to comment from June 26, 2025
I love the “snacks” expression. I’m gonna remember that one and apply it to my day.
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Link to comment from June 23, 2025
I just figure that any investment requiring that much advertising is a really good idea for the promoter and a really bad idea for everybody else.
Post: What About Gold?
Link to comment from June 4, 2025
Do you at least get a free meal too?
Post: Staying Alive
Link to comment from May 11, 2025
Don, if you'll forgive the temerity, I am proud of you. Proud. The courage and determination you've shown to pursue a childhood dream clear across the country in retirement (and to chug up and down those Oracle Park steps with new hips) make my eyes mist up. I'd be happy to chat with you. As a local TV sportscaster I covered minor league teams in Pawtucket, Columbus and Fresno and spring training for the Twins, Reds and Red Sox. I interviewed Willie in a golf cart (he was pretty brusque), so infuriated Pete Rose that we both wound up on the CBS Evening News that night, went live from Opening Day at Fenway, and produced a public TV special out of three hours of videotaped hilarity with Bill "Spaceman" Lee in the Wrigley Field bleachers. And I'm a Cubs fanatic. My last visit to your new workplace was for a Cubs/Giants playoff game in 2016. I went to the game direct from a cancer treatment at UCSF. (Really, really bad idea.) I wore my lucky Cubs jersey and cap to every treatment and scan over the years. I still cry every time I watch the replay of us winning the World Series in Cleveland. I lived to see it. Where did you find a place? I was 23 years in Pacifica and Moss Beach.
Post: Staying Alive
Link to comment from May 11, 2025