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NOTORIOUS HACKERS – Marilyn Armstrong
FOWC with Fandango — Notorious The day after I got hacked, it hit the TV headlines. Every network news station had the information at the top of the hour: REBOOT YOUR ROUTER. Apparently, millions of...
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INGENUITY: ARGUING FINANCE WHEN MONEY IS GONE – Marilyn Armstrong
FOWC with Fandango — Ingenuity Today or maybe tomorrow if I have the energy, I have to try to explain to UMass that if Blue Cross says I don’t owe money, I don’t owe the money. That is the theory and...
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ADULTERY IS A SIN – Marilyn Armstrong
The first time I heard the word “adultery,” I assumed it meant the sin of growing up. I’m not sure I was entirely wrong. I thought when you got to adulthood, you got your freedom. You didn’t have to...
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WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?
The Senior Issue, by Rich Paschall Recently a friend of mine commented that if Congress cut Social Security and Medicare, they will see a lot of angry seniors vote them out of office. Many Republicans...
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SOME NOT-SO-BAD NEWS, THE LOCAL EDITION – Marilyn Armstrong
Sometimes complaining helps. All the people who complained that they can’t use the new format have been offered the option of retaining (forever, apparently) the “classic format.” I was up at the Forum...
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A CREDIT TO YOUR BANK? – Marilyn Armstrong
FOWC with Fandango — Credit Credit. That’s the money you don’t have that you spend anyway because look at that HUGE line of credit. I could buy a car with that kind of money! Of course, then there’s...
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JUST ANOTHER MEANINGLESS XMAS ZOMBIE EVENT – Marilyn Armstrong
Weekly Word Prompt: Xmas Zombies So I was going to check into my bank and see if a particular payment had gone out. Instead of getting my account, it asked me how I wanted to get my access code. Access...
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LOSING YOUR JOB WITHOUT LOSING YOUR MIND – Marilyn Armstrong
A lot of people figure that everyone “retires” on their own terms in their proper time. That hasn’t been true in our world. Certainly not in Garry and my world. Garry lost his job because the company...
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BARTERING – THE COUNTRY WAY – Marilyn Armstrong
Bartering may be “old style” in the U.S., but I think that’s just in cities. Because in the country, a lot of bartering still goes on. The countryside … where the cows outnumber people and only the...
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THE DAY WE WON IT ALL … WELL, NOT EXACTLY – Marilyn Armstrong
THE FISCAL DREAM I just won $1,000,000,000 — that’s one billion dollars — from the lottery. It is a bit mystifying since I don’t remember buying the ticket, but I’m not going to argue the point....
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ANOTHER YEAR ON A FIXED INCOME- Marilyn Armstrong
We got our taxes done. This used to be a big deal because we got so much money back at the end of the year. Then Reagan changed everything and we got back less than half we’d gotten in the past. Now,...
View ArticleI WILL WORK FOR FOOD BUT NOT PIZZA – Marilyn Armstrong
I’ve had enough pizza. I like it, mind you, but I’ve had an awful lot of it. Especially since we discovered frozen pizza we can throw in the counter oven. DiGiorno’s sausage made with marinara sauce is...
View ArticleNO SPENDTHRIFTING THIS YEAR – Marilyn Armstrong
FOWC with Fandango — Spendthrift There was a time when “spendthrift” meant spending too much money for something that wasn’t necessary. This was when we were both working and earning good salaries....
View ArticleAND THE BEAT GOES ON – Marilyn Armstrong
Falls and canceled medication and rain delays notwithstanding, there’s progress in fixing up the old place. Not as much as I would like, but definitely better and more (with a little luck!) is on the...
View ArticleTHE DAY OF THE NUMBERS – Marilyn Armstrong
I’m not big on numbers, but I had to deal with them anyway. Our banks have this sneaky way of offering you “free money” that of course, isn’t free. It’s just free of interest if you pay it off within a...
View ArticleABOUT THE HOUSE – Marilyn Armstrong
FOWC with Fandango — House These days, when I hear the word “house” my brain flicks into “fix-me” mode. On television commercials, people always have plenty of money to hire “pros” to fix whatever...
View ArticleHOW DO THEY DO IT? – Marilyn Armstrong
I’ve been trying to pay off credit cards which got used to repair the house. It was a bad idea, but it seemed reasonable at the time. It wasn’t either reasonable or good as ideas go. Now, it’s payoff...
View ArticleBRING ON THE ANGRY MOBS! – Marilyn Armstrong
I’m mad at life. This is not what I planned. In fact, it’s not even close to what I had in mind. I was planning to go gently into my elder years, able to do whatever I always did, but perhaps a bit...
View ArticleA.B. NORMAL – Marilyn Armstrong
FOWC with Fandango — Abnormal What is normal? It there such a thing? Does anyone lead a “normal life”? This has been a week when it feels like I should not have gotten out of bed. Or, for that matter,...
View ArticleANOTHER VOICE HEARD FROM – GUEST AUTHOR – BEN TAYLOR
WTF! Not Another Dime We elect representatives to … uh … represent us. They are paid healthy salaries, enjoy the best health care in the country and draw a salary after retirement, even when voted out...
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