Recent content by Halvecto

It's insane. Far more dangerous than a virus that doesn't hardly affect 99.5% of the population (I recognize some may have been themselves or have kin that has been hit hard with CV19) is allowing Govt (Fed or Local) to enact tyrannical guidelines, treat them like laws and impact 100% of our...

You are correct sir. Good catch.

Thanks for the heads-up.

They sent me an envelope with SIM cards for all the phones on our family plan. I haven't done anything with them yet. I should probably go to the Sprint/T-mobile store nearby and see what the dealio is. We have 5 iPhone and my Pixel. I'm the Android holdout. I just logged-in to the...

If you can get $$ into Roth, this is correct. If you decide to convert Trad $$, do some math on breakeven scenarios. It's usually a time (how long will the Roth have to grow since your income tax on conversion becomes a current expense). Roth IRA contributions (capital) can be taken out after...

Roth Conversions don't have any income limitations. Just the Roth Contributions. Your company 401k impacts the "deductibility" of a Traditional IRA contribution, but not the possibility. The deduction amount, if any, is "phased-out" by income when your employer has a 401k or other sponsored...

A mentor of mine offered this: "Learn from mistakes, both losses and missed opportunity. But don't opine them. You didn't do what you now envision you had done, so don't think it was as obvious decision as it seems now. It's faulty human nature to "I wish I woulda" and calculate all the...

It shouldn't be an excuse to hang on to losers, but even great companies have correction moves. $AAPL, arguably the greatest growth stock of our generation, had 5 drawdowns (performance off high) of over 50% and many other painful pullbacks in the last 20 years. M2/I don't own any shares...

Didn't expect to type this much. Oh well.... While that is conventional and reasonable, it is only true of a company with limited or relatively limited growth potential, which you are correct in your assessement of $BA. Boeing, while a critical company and seemingly well run, w/out...

Ha, I just looked again: Length 27'6" Beam 8' That's huge. You could have been a consultant to the ship stuck in the Suez canal. Makes the performance comments more impressive.

Does that drive have any trim adjust? If you put a touch of plates down, would that help the handling or are those just too big and designed for creating the wedge/wake? Does the hull get up on plane much at speed or does it basically push/plow like the Malibu/Nautique, etc.? 47-50 is a pretty...

USC men had a good run also. Coach Enfield seems to have figured out what works. Gonzaga is really good. Coach Few recruits exactly to the strengths of his program and system. Impressive what he has done over the years.

Bro, scrolling thru and thinking to myself, this guy gets it (selling the 240 notwithstanding :p); what great family memories. Nice spot for an early morning devo and some Getty worship music. Keep loving on your crew. This world is a fiasco. Building strong family is a blessing to you and...

It blows my mind that a spacecraft can travel seven months to get to a far-away planet and will be under controlled observation and then have smaller crafts and machines controlled by a station here on earth after it lands. Amazing. I have to believe the competition of private outfits like...

Get a few cats. Seriously, I was never a cat guy. Now, I will always have at least one cat. We don't do the litter-box thing and feed lightly so they have an interest in hunting. I've had as many as three, but now just one. We have had her about 5 years and she is still a hunting machine...