Feel like shit today

Damn..  I was goin good.  Felt great eetc.  Yesterday I shot a near perfect score at archery, knee didn't hurt shoulders felt great..   But I did go to the VA for my annual.  They gave me two injections, one for Whooping cough and pneumonia and the other a Tetanus update..  Also gave me a knee brace..  Today. Woke up feeling like like the south end of a north bound mule.  No ambition feel shitty, knee in pain.  Went and did a bit of shooting and came home..  Ended up taking a long nap..  Still feelin shitty. I am thinkin the vacinations are gettin to me..

Of course they are. Here have some mercury and aluminum...

Hope you feel better soon.

Still better than polio....

I was vacinated for that when I was in 1st grade. Sugar cube thing

According to TV, I have to worry about shingles since I had chicken pox.
Listen up TV, I just had my roof replaced!

Terry Bradshaw! I have one for your "thumb" right here!

If you have a pension, you may have gotten that Last Check vaccine

What the fuck is a pension?

Shit, I was never under the allusion I was going to be taken care of by a corporation, or
govt entity in any form. I trade my time for $$. The rest is up to me.

Hokie wrote:What the fuck is a pension?

Shit, I was never under the allusion I was going to be taken care of by a corporation, or
govt entity in any form. I trade my time for $$. The rest is up to me.

I have a pretty sweet pension. Employer contributes $1.24 for every $1.00 I put in. Defined contribution, indexed to inflation.

Still not going to rely on it. Have my own savings plan.

zilla wrote:Damn..  I was goin good.  Felt great eetc.  Yesterday I shot a near perfect score at archery, knee didn't hurt shoulders felt great..   But I did go to the VA for my annual.  They gave me two injections, one for Whooping cough and pneumonia and the other a Tetanus update..  Also gave me a knee brace..  Today. Woke up feeling like like the south end of a north bound mule.  No ambition feel shitty, knee in pain.  Went and did a bit of shooting and came home..  Ended up taking a long nap..  Still feelin shitty. I am thinkin the vacinations are gettin to me..

Not uncommon. A vaccine is an attenuated version of the real deal. It works by eliciting an immune response, which is why you might feel crappy for a few days - your body thinks it's encountered the real deal, even though it hasn't.

SWOrange wrote:

Hokie wrote:What the fuck is a pension?

Shit, I was never under the allusion I was going to be taken care of by a corporation, or
govt entity in any form. I trade my time for $$. The rest is up to me.

I have a pretty sweet pension. Employer contributes $1.24 for every $1.00 I put in. Defined contribution, indexed to inflation.

Still not going to rely on it. Have my own savings plan.

That's pretty good!

I get dollar for dollar match into a 401k on the first 6% of my salary I put in.

Hokie wrote:

SWOrange wrote:

Hokie wrote:What the fuck is a pension?

Shit, I was never under the allusion I was going to be taken care of by a corporation, or
govt entity in any form. I trade my time for $$. The rest is up to me.

I have a pretty sweet pension. Employer contributes $1.24 for every $1.00 I put in. Defined contribution, indexed to inflation.

Still not going to rely on it. Have my own savings plan.

That's pretty good!

I get dollar for dollar match into a 401k on the first 6% of my salary I put in.

We don't have 401k's here, we have TFSA and RRSP (Tax Free Savings Account and Registered Retirement Savings Plan). Neither has employer matching IIRC.

TFSA = no tax on gains made on invested funds in account
RRSP = amount contributed in the year is deducted from your income when determining income taxes owed

Both have limits that I can't quite remember. I have an auto-deposit each payday for a reasonable amount that gets split between the two. Up to $15000 from RRSP can be used for a first-time home purchase as well.

Hokie wrote:

SWOrange wrote:

Hokie wrote:What the fuck is a pension?

Shit, I was never under the allusion I was going to be taken care of by a corporation, or
govt entity in any form. I trade my time for $$. The rest is up to me.

I have a pretty sweet pension. Employer contributes $1.24 for every $1.00 I put in. Defined contribution, indexed to inflation.

Still not going to rely on it. Have my own savings plan.

That's pretty good!

I get dollar for dollar match into a 401k on the first 6% of my salary I put in.

why yoooo liberal smooch ! .....expecting to make a profit off the poor by playing the richman's walsh treat game !!
retirement is for the weak !
I expected better of you......like flipping burgers into your 70's ...(OH WAIT) those jobs are career positions for illegal aliens now..... well maybe you could become an artist , sit on the nudist beach and paint nudes
or be top seller of real estate ,
We do have a 68 year old guy at work whos in the laborers union working towards retirement, he started late, He was a pro river raft guide, but now hes out there running a jackhammer and picking up construction debris

Luckily I snuck out while company retirements were in vogue..  I pulled 4 retirements and an investment fund..  Still have a tidy sum in my company 401K.  But the guys at work have had their company retirement froze.  Now they just get the 401 K match..  Nice thing is they can take it with them when they leave the company.  Me I had to keep track of everywhere that owed me retirement funds.. Company retirements are going the way of the Dodo..

zilla wrote:Luckily I snuck out while company retirements were in vogue..  I pulled 4 retirements and an investment fund..  Still have a tidy sum in my company 401K.  But the guys at work have had their company retirement froze.  Now they just get the 401 K match..  Nice thing is they can take it with them when they leave the company.  Me I had to keep track of everywhere that owed me retirement funds.. Company retirements are going the way of the Dodo..

Definitely. Not many folks my age have a pension option. Girlfriend is a teacher and I'm in healthcare, two of the few arenas that seem to offer them.

Healthcare is an interesting math paradigm for me (got certified as an EMT when I retired since it is fun to ride around with lights and sirens, and go into people's houses and look at their shit). I found emergency medicine to be highly scripted all the way up to and through the hospital ER where there are real doctors. There is no thinking involved. As I was told by my instructors many times, if you have to think you are likely to screw up - follow the fucking script. Which comes back to the math. Emergency medicine uses a minimax algorithm - forget about optimality. You do what is least likely to result in a bad outcome. Of course medical people are notoriously poor mathematicians. The script has evolved by trial and error looking at 10's of thousands of episodes, but it is a very very good script (do I need to segway into my fondness for Monte Carlo?). I don't find myself thinking at all - just know your equipment inside and out, and follow the fucking script.

tmex ems axiom - "Try to be sure that the worst thing that happens to a patient happened before you arrived."

Hopefully this pans out :
I got 20 credits built up
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13 years of pumping concrete with boom pumps
we all heard the "jokes" about how you only get 3 checks and then get checked out by the black ops operators
Federal Social Security could be headed that way too "early retirement" could take on a whole new meaning under medicare....I notice how they sure are eager to push that.
I know Im just being paranoid

tmex wrote:Healthcare is an interesting math paradigm for me (got certified as an EMT when I retired since it is fun to ride around with lights and sirens, and go into people's houses and look at their shit). I found emergency medicine to be highly scripted all the way up to and through the hospital ER where there are real doctors. There is no thinking involved. As I was told by my instructors many times, if you have to think you are likely to screw up - follow the fucking script. Which comes back to the math. Emergency medicine uses a minimax algorithm - forget about optimality. You do what is least likely to result in a bad outcome. Of course medical people are notoriously poor mathematicians. The script has evolved by trial and error looking at 10's of thousands of episodes, but it is a very very good script (do I need to segway into my fondness for Monte Carlo?). I don't find myself thinking at all - just know your equipment inside and out, and follow the fucking script.

tmex ems axiom - "Try to be that the worst thing that happens to a patient happened before you arrived."

Fair assessment. Priority number 1 is "Don't fuck up, follow procedures". Once you get to the specialists things get a bit more interesting.

I work in cancer clinical trials, so the MD's I'm around are have a more statistical bent than is probably the norm.

Archery? You mean like Katniss? Hope you feel better mon.

I came down with a head cold last week and finally found relief yesterday....hope your feeling better.