@on the cusp
de-dollarization is going to happen. And soon too.
I keep a 10 billion dollar Zimbabwe bill in a little frame in front of my laptop just to remind me what can happen to our American dollar. I only paid $8 for it a number of years ago.
Diversification is the only advice I can safely give.
Thanks for stopping by.

The forecast for rain and more rain has changed to slight chance of rain and more rain. Don't know about Houston. They might get drenched, as if another flood is what they needed.
Eyo's passing has been tough for me. It has been an occasion where I think through my plans for what little future I have left, and try to figure out how best to spend that bit of remaining time.
Like you, I am in very good health. I do not have any diet restrictions. I am not on any medication of any kind for anything. I can do as I damn well please, work or not, travel or not. The brick wall I hit is when to retire. My initial retirement plan changed at the pandemic. My typical savings was supposed to have grown each year, but this rural, poor, local economy took a further dive with business closures, and a clientele that once had good jobs are now working part time at Walmart. My income has shrunken accordingly.
So, do I stay home, pinch pennies for 3 more years, or do I take advantage of my physical ability to walk, climb, stoop, bend, lift, etc..., or do I wait until strolling through trails in The Grand Canyon is too physically difficult and just stay home instead?
On top of that, I firmly believe de-dollarization is going bring us to a point that will make The Great Depression look like child's play.
I have some things to say about entering a war and the rationing of EVERYTHING will occur. I will save my thoughts for another day.
You give me the urge to think about a fall/winter garden. We shall see.
Thanks for the OT and conversation starter.

@usefewersyllables
about these crisis blowing over and life going back to normal, kinda like after the Cuban Missile crisis ended and we went into a major spurt forward with peaceful civilization. New kinds of music (rock & roll), new kinds of tv (Star Trek, Outer Limits), new kinds of cars and motorcycles (Datsuns, Toyotas, Honda 50s and dirtbikes. And new adventures to the moon, and beyond.
Exciting times.
I really miss that kind of exhilarating life to wake up to every morning.
I wish the generations that come after us boomers could have experienced that time and place.
Maybe, someday, they will again.
Thanks for stopping by.

the vast majority of us here (posters and lurkers) are Boomers, or at the youngest perhaps late Boomer/Gen Jones like me. Our spans are definitely getting into their latter stages, and at this point we've all seen far too many contemporaries pass on.

It does call into question when might be the right time to stop and eat the roses: soldiering on at an unfulfilling and not nearly lucrative enough job until the end comes isn't that attractive, frankly. It does beat WalMart, though.

However, having said that, my only real retirement plan now, after experiencing financial catastrophe in 2015, is to quietly die at my desk. When the dollar inevitably goes Tango Uniform, with or without accompanying warfare, I'll have a decision to make.

Next time around, I intend to pick my parents better. I clearly screwed that up this time. (;-)

The ride is going to get bumpier from here, for sure. Would that it were not so. Still, I watered my little container garden this morning, and hope to have some tomatoes from it prior to the first frost, and whatever wicked this way comes...