{"id":468,"date":"2010-03-31T23:10:57","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T06:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/hultquist\/?p=468"},"modified":"2010-03-31T23:10:57","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T06:10:57","slug":"thursday-april-fool%e2%80%99s-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=468","title":{"rendered":"THURSDAY — April Fool\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

John and I are writing this the evening before but because of a time\u00a0zone thing it will post after Midnight and will show up as being posted on April 1st<\/sup>.\u00a0 What a hoot.\u00a0 We graduated from high school in 1961 and it was repeatedly pointed out to us (a) that 1961 reads the same up-side-down, and (b) as you go forth into the real world you will learn that your H.S. days will be the happiest days of your life.\u00a0 Not true, but we heard that.<\/p>\n

We started college the same year and \u201cretire\u201d was something old folks did and then sat in a rocking chair and waited for the USSR to vaporize our country with nukes.\u00a0 Neither the prospect of retirement nor being vaporized was something we worried much about.\u00a0 We never got nuked but, can you believe, we did retire.\u00a0 The golden years are here.<\/p>\n

Under John\u2019s vigilant care, Nancy (with a major contribution by the State via CWU) has been stashing money away in mutual funds at 3 major companies.\u00a0 One might think it would be simple to reverse the process by turning in a form saying \u201cI retire\u201d and the money, instead of going, would return.\u00a0 You would be wrong in that thought.<\/p>\n

There are boxes to be checked, forms to be filled in, signatures to be signed, witnessed, sealed, and delivered.\u00a0 Do you want to keep funds with company A or transfer them to B, C, D, or . . .\u00a0 Do you want it returned to you all at once or in significant gobs or little dribbles? \u00a0Shall you have a check sent to you or maybe via the flow of electrons to your bank; and would that be a checking or savings account? \u00a0And if you are hit by a big truck or fall out of the air from 33,000 feet in a silver sardine can \u2013 what then?\u00a0 Truth is your retirement troubles begin before you retire.<\/p>\n

Regarding medical\/health\/recovery issues:<\/p>\n

The Good; The Not So Good; & The Bad:<\/em><\/p>\n

The good news \u2013 \u2013\u00a0Nancy is back working with a physical therapist and had an active 45 minute session Wednesday afternoon.\u00a0 Being the latest person to sign on (and the need indicated by the dearth of time slots) the next session is not until next week.\u00a0 Then two a week.<\/p>\n

The not so good news \u2013 \u2013 was another episode of food moving up when it should be going down.\u00a0 The help-it-go-down medicine is a dangerous thing (both too much and too long have serious possibilities) so the doctor\u2019s recommendation is to switch out a heart-regulator for a different one.\u00a0 Someone (to go unnamed but she knows who she is) suggested ordering a 3-month supply of the meds, which we did. \u00a0Can one sell Amiodarone on E-Bay?\u00a0 The new med is generic \u201cmetoprolol\u201d and is also sold as Toprol-XL\u00ae.<\/p>\n

The really bad news \u2013 \u2013\u00a0is that these drugs come with concocted names no one can remember, spell, or pronounce and 2 pages or more of small print \u201cpatient counseling\u201d instructions.<\/p>\n

Retire.\u00a0 Enjoy life.\u00a0 Read.\u00a0 Right!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John and I are writing this the evening before but because of a time\u00a0zone thing it will post after Midnight and will show up as being posted on April 1st.\u00a0 What a hoot.\u00a0 We graduated from high school in 1961 and it was repeatedly pointed out to us (a) that 1961 reads the same up-side-down, … Continue reading “THURSDAY — April Fool\u2019s Day”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recovery-stage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72iNf-7y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}