Author Archives: billybaba
DECEMBER 30, FRIDAY
FINANCIAL PLANNING This week I talk to my financial advisor whose business it is to give me advice on how to have enough money to live on until I die and whose company invests my money (and takes a percentage)
DECEMBER 30, FRIDAY
FINANCIAL PLANNING This week I talk to my financial advisor whose business it is to give me advice on how to have enough money to live on until I die and whose company invests my money (and takes a percentage)
DECEMBER 29, THURSDAY
SARAH AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING I read an article yesterday about a woman named Sarah who lives in Culver City, California. She is about 25, a college graduate, who has a job as an administrative assistant bringing her about $4000 a
DECEMBER 29, THURSDAY
SARAH AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING I read an article yesterday about a woman named Sarah who lives in Culver City, California. She is about 25, a college graduate, who has a job as an administrative assistant bringing her about $4000 a
DECEMBER 28, WEDNESDAY
SCRIMPING What puzzles me is the relationship between my daily and monthly spending, my attempts to live within my monthly income and still travel for a month to some distant place every third month and my so called assets, my
DECEMBER 28, WEDNESDAY
SCRIMPING What puzzles me is the relationship between my daily and monthly spending, my attempts to live within my monthly income and still travel for a month to some distant place every third month and my so called assets, my
DECEMBER 27, TUESDAY
STOCK MARKET I read an article on the stock market today, apparently this was the worst the worst year since 2008. In 2008, shortly after I retired, I followed the advice of my financial advisor and invested all of my
DECEMBER 27, TUESDAY
STOCK MARKET I read an article on the stock market today, apparently this was the worst the worst year since 2008. In 2008, shortly after I retired, I followed the advice of my financial advisor and invested all of my
DECEMBER 26, MONDAY
SNIFFING MY WAY ALONG Maggie only comes to visit me when my son and his wife Kathy are out of town. When she can’t go along, she is much happier staying with me than staying in a kennel. When she
DECEMBER 26, MONDAY
SNIFFING MY WAY ALONG Maggie only comes to visit me when my son and his wife Kathy are out of town. When she can’t go along, she is much happier staying with me than staying in a kennel. When she
DECEMBER 25, SUNDAY
ATTACHMENT This was my first Christmas at home since Kathe died in May of 2021. Last year, Christmas, 2021, I went to Rehoboth Beach for Christmas with the Mahy clan, the sisters of Todd, Susie’s husband. I had just come
DECEMBER 25, SUNDAY
ATTACHMENT This was my first Christmas at home since Kathe died in May of 2021. Last year, Christmas, 2021, I went to Rehoboth Beach for Christmas with the Mahy clan, the sisters of Todd, Susie’s husband. I had just come
DECEMBER 24, SATURDAY
IMMIGRATION One of the problems facing Joe Biden is what to do about the people swarming over our southern border. The Republicans have a solution, build a wall, keep them out, force them to go home. In a nation in
DECEMBER 24, SATURDAY
IMMIGRATION One of the problems facing Joe Biden is what to do about the people swarming over our southern border. The Republicans have a solution, build a wall, keep them out, force them to go home. In a nation in
DECEMBER 23, FRIDAY
HUGE My next door neighbor is an astronomer who has an observatory in his back yard. He was given a powerful telescope by a former student who got rich charting cell towers for mobile phone companies. He retired young and
DECEMBER 23, FRIDAY
HUGE My next door neighbor is an astronomer who has an observatory in his back yard. He was given a powerful telescope by a former student who got rich charting cell towers for mobile phone companies. He retired young and
DECEMBER 22, THURSDAY
THE END OF HUMANS I read another article on Apple News this week that made me wonder. The article is an Atlantic Magazine article entitled “The People Cheering For Humanities End.” The author quotes a line from Michel Foucault who
DECEMBER 22, THURSDAY
THE END OF HUMANS I read another article on Apple News this week that made me wonder. The article is an Atlantic Magazine article entitled “The People Cheering For Humanities End.” The author quotes a line from Michel Foucault who
DECEMBER 21, WEDNESDAY
INDIA VISA AGAIN One more letter from the VFS Global warning us once again that our applications are incomplete followed by a day of panicked working to resend a requested form (we sent it last week by Fed Ex for
DECEMBER 21, WEDNESDAY
INDIA VISA AGAIN One more letter from the VFS Global warning us once again that our applications are incomplete followed by a day of panicked working to resend a requested form (we sent it last week by Fed Ex for
BILLYBABA’S WANDERING 