Holiday Fun

I went out geocaching this morning and found a couple of caches. This afternoon I found a traveling cache and it was a first for me – it was very clever in its disguise. The day was overcast and dreary and about 38 degrees. Anyway, this is past tense since it is now 1745 and it is dark.

The rest of the clan went to the big city to shop and this is definitely not me. They left while I was caching and therefore, I was not asked to go along. This gives me time to write this and do some other more meaningful things like wash the dishes and do the laundry that the “un-named” did not want to do.

On another subject, I have been looking for a Taylorcraft BC12-D for a while but have not had much luck in locating a bird I would really like to have. I am interested in this model since it was the first airplane I ever owned and it was a dream to fly and the GPH is only 4 or so. If any one hears of a T-Craft for sale give me a jingle.

The “doughnut shop” was pretty quite this morning but Bill, Tom, Ken and all the regulars were there – I am usually only a weekend warrior since I work out of town. I hung around from about 8-10 and decided to do the caches by looking at the PDA data I receive every Friday. We discussed insurance for seniors – there were almost 85% retiree’s in the group today. The verdict is that the rules and data are so complicated that a “senior ” is not able to correctly analyze what is best. It is enough to make your head spin. The other subject was -WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A RETIREE RUNS OUT OF MONEY? – the group was rather somber in saying that (1) You spend all your mony for drugs and doctors, (2) Medicade comes next, then the (3) dreaded nursing home followed 2.5 years later with a mysterious death. I guess this is pretty much how the “boomers” will go out since the families do not have time to take care or the aging parents.

The wealth of the boomers needs to be disipated to keep the economy going and so, in the grand scheme of things, prices and needs will be adjusted to make sure this happens. Somewhere along the line I went from being solid middleclass to lower middleclass – maybe I was flying too much or something. Anyway, as a household we have always saved but it has done no good. It seems like the credit users and losers have an advantage since they seem to be the ones who are buying all those $500-750K houses I see (or saw) from the air. Not just a few either – thousands and thousands – all over the USA and not just localized to East and West Coasts. Who is buying these homes? That is my question!