From time to time some of my posts do not fit into other categories. The post below are more general musings.
- When to Start Taking Social Security March 6, 2018
Various investment articles and advisers routinely advocate that retirees delay when they will start taking Social Security without any explanation of how they come to this conclusion. This means a retiree would need to draw more from his or her investments until he/she starts taking Social Security, decreasing income from investments to cover his expenses in … - Book Review: The Martian by Andy Weir September 7, 2015Be careful opening this book. I opened it thinking I would read a few pages before going to sleep only to set it down nine hours later after reading all 369 pages. Andy Weir successfully strings together plausible solutions to plausible problems of surviving after being stranded on Mars. Each solution stresses a habitability system beyond its …