Good Morning!!!! 65F @ 4:45AM. Sunny. High 92F. Winds NW at 10 to 15 mph.
With inflation blowing up in our faces, how long will it be before cash isn't worth the paper it's printed on? Seems like with inflation, cash isn't the safe haven it has been in the past when the stock market was going through a correction. No safe place to hide anymore...
And with all the hacking going on, I really have to wonder how safe digital funds really are. Real end-of-the-world gloom and doom thinking right there, eh?
If you use a computer to do your own taxes, the gummint wants your bank account and routing number to move money directly into or out of your account. How safe is that? Paper checks have been forged forever; have scammers figured out how to do it with e-funds yet? And Drew's right about debit cards: They don't have the same protections in place as credit cards. The only place I use the debit card is at the local Winco grocery store because they don't accept a credit card and I don't like to carry that much cash.
Wow, scaredy, that's old school for sure. But last time I sold a car, the buyer and I went to his bank, and they wouldn't pay me in cash. Then my bank wanted to charge me a fee to cash the check from his bank! Talk about highway robbery.
Ultra, I left the SF Bay Area shortly after they started shooting people at random on the freeways there. It's been years since I've been back, and I'll try to keep it that way. Your workplace sentiment sounds an awful lot like what I experienced at the General Electric Nuclear Energy Business Group my first year out of college. Three Mile Island had just exploded, and people were leaving like rats jumping off a sinking ship. If things don't change soon, people will start leaving their public safety jobs, and then the criminals will have free rein. Oh, but wait, that's already started. Our local sherrif's department is still well funded, but they can't find enough people to fill all the vacancies.
Sounds like your FIL has accumulated quite a legacy, Randy. It must be a heck of an adjustment to let go of it all.
Glad to hear your good news on the job front, Mike. And Kyle's, too.
Got some seat time moving most of the trees the dozer man knocked down on his last day. Still have two more to go, but they're on real steep ground in deep, very dry grass, away from everything, and there's no hurry getting to them. They can wait until winter when we hopefully get some rain.
Wildfire wise, it seems we get several new starts a day nearby now. Last night another one was only a dozen miles away. Oddly, a neighbor texted me about it before the new Watch Duty app sent an alert, but he only beat it by a minute or two. Firefighters were able to hold it to a few acres, but it was say too close for comfort.
UPS says they'll deliver the hoses that should have come with the new side shift flail mower today. Only took the better part of a month for Betstco to ship them, and now I'm done mowing for the season.
This morning I'll see if I can burn a couple holes in the piece of railroad track that's been in the back of the Ford for a couple of weeks. Then get it mounted on the box blade for ballast. Got a lot of gravel to spread, and it'll help keep the back wheels on the ground.
