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Vanity? ^ | 3/21/20 | Self

Posted on 03/22/2020 9:04:22 AM PDT by umgud

I'm 68 y/o, not in bad shape, but not excellent, have historical issues. I live in CA (central valley).

Bottom line: I'm not convinced I'll contract COVID, but I do believe I won't survive it if I do.

This has me getting my life in order, in my case, a herculean effort to get it done before possible contraction. Need to brush up my will, personal finances, administration..........then there are physical assets, misc. deals I'm working on. It's a huge job and I must get it done quickly.

Lastly, I'm going to show my daughter how to give FR updates and if necessary, notice of my death.


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To: umgud
Right now I'm watching Lucia di Lammermoor with Anna Netrebko. The Met is free-streaming a different performance each day. Lucia will be available until 6:30 PM today (Sunday). Then this link probably won't work. At 7:30 PM they will switch to tomorrow's opera which will be Eugene Onegin.

I'm 73. I don't plan to get sick but if I do I plan to recover.

ML/NJ

21 posted on 03/22/2020 9:19:07 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: blueunicorn6
“Drinking some wine and eating some cheese and catching a few rays, you know.” - Oddball, the world’s greatest Tanker

Oddball references are great. As a matter of fact,the whole movie is so cool especially the cast and dialogue. Bottom line,facing adversity is all attitude. We are also seeing the best and worst of humanity.

22 posted on 03/22/2020 9:20:25 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: umgud

going to work and watching my retirement slip away in the stock market


23 posted on 03/22/2020 9:20:29 AM PDT by Mom MD
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To: umgud

washing my hands more, limiting contact and trying desperately to calm people easily panicked down


24 posted on 03/22/2020 9:20:57 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: umgud

You could hang out on your porch and yell at kids to stay off your lawn...


25 posted on 03/22/2020 9:21:19 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with islamic terrorists - they want to die for allah and we want to kill them.)
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To: Mom MD

Living my normal life as far as the panic stricken will allow me.


26 posted on 03/22/2020 9:21:31 AM PDT by JayAr36 (The worthless dispicable party must be destroyed)
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To: umgud

At 76 I’ve been used to playing rec basketball 2-4 times a week for most of the last 35 years. Sitting around is not comfortable. so I decided to go for a shootaround, a workout. I went to my usual outdoor court a couple of blocks away from home (since school gyms are closed) and found the gates locked. Two other courts that I’ve played on in an adjoining town had the hoops removed. So I drove a couple of miles to the municipal complex and found open courts behind police HQ and did my workout.

Beats nothing, I guess, but the competition is the fun part. Let’s get this over with! < /rant >


27 posted on 03/22/2020 9:23:28 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: humblegunner
😂😂😂🤚🏽
28 posted on 03/22/2020 9:23:37 AM PDT by onyx (#StandWithICE. - #KAG #TRUMP2020Landslide)
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To: bigbob
Not posting vanities.

Just replying to them.

29 posted on 03/22/2020 9:24:58 AM PDT by kevao (BIBLICAL JESUS: Give your money to the poor. SOCIALIST JESUS: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: humblegunner

Omg..coffee-spewing LOL at that! Thank you, humble! Good Lord..that is going to make me chuckle all day! Needed it.


30 posted on 03/22/2020 9:25:11 AM PDT by ZinGirl (Now a grandma ....can't afford a tagline :))
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To: blueunicorn6
I’ll bet the house prices in your neighborhood are low.

There's no houses in prison!

31 posted on 03/22/2020 9:25:51 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The living will envy the dead.)
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To: umgud

Don’t know how many children you have, but in the end, if there would be let’s say 4 and they all have different ideas as to how things need to be split up, it makes a nightmare.

Try to have 1 for financial/estate administrator and 1 for healthcare/Med POA.

Based on what I have seen in the last 20 years, this would make everything simple and not split the family.


32 posted on 03/22/2020 9:28:38 AM PDT by conservativesister
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To: umgud

I’m ordering parts and building a boardgaming kotatsu.


33 posted on 03/22/2020 9:31:30 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: umgud

I’m 72, have health issues as well, but because my normal lifestyle is a pretty quiet, and mellow one, nothing has changed for me. I’ve had my teeth cleaned, visited my doctor, and gone to the post office, and grocery shopping. Neither of my kids lives near me, so we talk on the phone, or email each other. I never watch any news programs, and won’t watch them now either. I get updates from the White House for anything I need to know, and then of course there’s Free Republic. For the most part, I spend most days indoors, and only go out when it’s absolutely necessary. I enjoy my tranquility. It’s been that way for me since I retired in 2003.


34 posted on 03/22/2020 9:31:56 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: umgud

Don’t give up!


35 posted on 03/22/2020 9:32:13 AM PDT by hondact200 (Lincoln Freed the Slaves. Obama Enslaves the Free. Trump 2020 - Keep America Great)
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To: umgud
Lastly, I'm going to show my daughter how to give FR updates and if necessary, notice of my death.

Do that first. The will can wait.

36 posted on 03/22/2020 9:32:50 AM PDT by montag813
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To: umgud

Not using that PC term.


37 posted on 03/22/2020 9:36:36 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: umgud
Self identifying as a 🐕 so I should be good to go.😁
38 posted on 03/22/2020 9:38:57 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: umgud
I'm 78, in fair to good health, recently had a hernia operation, so I have pain but no severe illnesses.

We are avoiding going to stores until we really need specific food or medicines, and there are no other places to go.

We will drive around, staying in the vehicle, several times a week for about 90-120 minutes just to avoid total cabin fever.

I walk the dog {one mile, twice a day} but very few neighbors are out and about and if they are, we walk on opposite sides of the street.

I've been watching movies, DVDs, Prime, On Demand etc and try to watch only small amounts of "news".

I watch the President's briefing and today, for the first time I watched fredo's brother {he wasn't too bad}.

The regular FNC is so repetitive and predictable and depressing, that I just don't turn it on.

I'd never think of viewing cnnmsnbcabccbs for 'news', especially during this time of manufactured panic.

39 posted on 03/22/2020 9:39:20 AM PDT by USS Alaska (NUKE THE MOOSELIMB, TERRORISTS, NOW!)
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To: setter

I will keep your wife in my prayers. One of my nephews, a twin in his mid 40’s, had a serious viral lung infection a few years ago. He almost died from it. He’d suffered from undiagnosed sleep apnea for many years, which didn’t help the situation. Thankfully he recovered, and uses a C-PAP machine now.


40 posted on 03/22/2020 9:39:48 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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