Yave you done this yet?

Silvan responds:

Bubba, I done seed your pixture with clothes in the Roanoke paper one day. No thanks. I'll look at pixture of ME nekkid first.

Charlie Self "One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected." George W. Bush

Jeeeeeeezz. A whole newsgroup full of babe magnets. urp, j4

That's not a bad price for the home, but then I suppose you're forecasting rampant inflation with a concurrent collapse of the housing market. As to the Bugger King lunch, that's probably the super-cholesterolized version, which we're better off without. Yep, I guess everybody needs a little gloom in their lives. zorp, jo4hn

You're not really 45k behind if you continue working though are you? If you make more than $950/mth then you'll still end up with more in the end. SS is also in no danger of imploding, here is a well researched article about it

We are talking pay out from SS checks and not your job check. So yes you would be behind in SS pay out if you wait till 66 to start drawing rather than 62. Also you can draw SS and still work.

Well, so much for my breakfast!

Tim Douglass

I didn't know you could draw and work, but I'm only 32 so I haven't studied it too much :)

ya know, you'd prolly do better around here selling nekkit pitchers of Robin's butt. Iffen I wanted to see a nekkit wooddorker, I'd look in the mirror. Since I don't do that too often, I guess I must not.

Ah, you're one of the lucky ones that not only gets to pay the excess SS taxes now, but will also get to pay increased income taxes starting in about 12 years to pay off those "investments" Uncle Sam is buying with those excess contributions for the trust fund. We're enjoying spending those excess contributions on ourselves now and appreciate that you and your kids will pick up the tab later. And it will only get better for us older guys if the SS tax is increased now so even more can be spent on us and even more "investments" can be placed in the trust fund for you and your kids to pay off :-)

- Doug

Don't know that Rob is gonna supply you a photo though... j4

Perhaps the lesson is "don't glue up stuff on your table saw?" I know I never will again!

You don't have to. Haven't you ever heard of Social Security? You can retire at 111 and live forever on $2 a day.

Whenever I look at my butt in the mirror I just get depressed. I look like Hank Hill.

By the time I'm 111 I'll be way to anti-social to draw social security. They're more likely to be sending security to pick me up.

Tim Douglass

I believe that's an occupational hazard.

Tim Douglass

ROFL!! I was afraid somebody was gonna see those. :)

Now you have a leg up on about every other Wrecker though. You know what SWMBO and the young'uns look like.

Or not pessimistic enough? :)

Yeah, Dad came home with a '57 Bel Aire one day. A friend of his is a Jay Leno wannabe. I drove it a little. Beautiful car. Cherry. Gorgeous. But it weighed 400,000 pounds and it only had about 1/16 oz. of brake fluid in the ultra miniature master cylinder. Holy s*it dude, WTF were they thinking back then? No power steering either. Pretty to look at, but it really sucked to drive. That ended my infatuation with the '57 Chevy forever.

I kind of outgrew cars more generally anyway though, really. Cars are one huge black hole for cashola. A habit I never could afford, and I finally stopped daydreaming about it.

That expensive, really? What sets it apart as being a $45,000 car? Just the chick factor? I'd say it's more of a $25,000 car, but maybe I'm dreaming.

Everything is relative though. My grandfather paid $3,000 for a house in

Excellent. OK, Wreck, for $500 I promise not to allow myself to be seen /en deshabillé/ (that's nekkit for you ignernt types what ain't learnt no French) for 7 whole days. Pay up. If'n y'uns don't pony up the greenbacks, I'm a-showin' y'all the fat back.

True, and for a truck driver, um, freight distrubution engineering technologist, I'm actually pretty sexy and stuff. Sort of.