I haven't gone to this extent, but I use HA for a lot of timers - pellet stove run time, days since water filter change (we have several of those), pretty water bowl cleaning, flea and tick treatment for the pets, run the generator to keep the carb from gumming up, and probably a few others. As those get to the point where I need to take action, they appear on my to do list. Then I check them off as I finish them, and an automation removes the checked items overnight.
It helps. I have gauge cards for those timers, but the to do list doesn't require checking all of the gauges and setting what needs to be done - it's in the list.
I don't want to be the guy on the internet that says "they should have done x" as though the scientists aren't experts in their field, but I do wonder why they didn't use a bright orange flag or something. The white flag worked well enough, though.
Yep, we have that drawer. Ours is much larger and much more full. My wife loves baking, which accounts for a lot of it - there's about 5 pie servers in there, for example, along with various spatulas of many sizes. There are also three ice cream scoops so the odds are good I'll have at least one that is clean when I need it. Lemon zester, spoons, all kinds of baking and cooking-related stuff. The rubber things you use to get stubborn jars open. I can't even think of what else is in there, but there's a lot.
This is separate from the drawer that has rarely-used knives (we have a knife block for the commonly used knives), cake decorating materials, and similar stuff.
And both of those are separate from the designated "junk drawer" that has random stuff like box cutters, can coozies, gift cards, coupons, etc.
My mother told my wife that if my father passes away first, she wants to go live in a home, not with us or my brothers (great, because I do not think her living with us would go very well). But of course the unspoken question was, "Is there money for that?" Given we just gave them money to fix their HVAC, I doubt it. So is the plan that my siblings and I are going to pay for it? It'd be nice to know so that we could plan...
Yeah, I know of plenty of boomers that have had to delay retirement because they simply didn't have enough money. I've known several that finally retired, late, then passed away a few months later. Never got the chance to enjoy retirement at all.
My parents were working part time jobs, instead of relaxing and enjoying retirement, until a few years ago. Those jobs were having obvious effects on their health and well-being, too; I was convinced at least one of them was going to pass away before long. Fortunately, they're now in a position now where at least they don't have to work - but my brothers and I sent them money to replace their HVAC system when it died a few months ago, so it's not like they're rolling in dough or will leave us some huge inheritance.
How much would it suck to get to 70 and realize you still have to keep working? I mean, if you enjoy it and want to keep working, great, go for it. But to be forced to do it? That would suck. It doesn't matter what generation you are.
I have, for some businesses I've wondered about. For example, I use the virtual cycling platform Zwift, which charges a monthly or annual fee to use. The biggest competitor, Rouvy, also charges a fee. Makes sense, it takes money to develop these things, buy and maintain servers, etc. The income and expenses are obvious. (Zwift does offer bike frames and wheels from real world brands; I assume the brands paid something to be included.)
Enter MyWhoosh. Free to use, so the income side is unclear. From some searching, they claim they'll generate revenue via ads - but I doubt that would generate enough to support the platform.
The company is based out of Abu Dhabi, so I assume it's really sportswashing - they're just dumping a bunch of money into it and not really caring that it isn't making money (at least for now).
I'm sticking with Zwift (in part because I have it working under Linux and Wine).
lol I came upon a BMW that clearly had just missed his turn (he slowed down, realized it was too late to make the turn, then sped up again), then turned on his turn signal to pull into someone's driveway to turn around.
I said to my wife, "This BMW driver is so lost, they're using their turn signal!"
We have one of those and got pretty good at using it with our tabby. But when our tuxedo needed medicine, it did not go very well.
For him, fortunately, his medicine can be compounded into a paste that we rub inside his ear. He doesn't enjoy it, but he tolerates it. Definitely a stress saver for us.
This specific tension happened a lot sooner than I expected.
Let's see... a guy famous for (among other things) owning a company that builds electric cars teams up with the guy who said he wants to outlaw electric cars. Fireworks were inevitable at some point.
My first one was a Seagate ST-238R. 32 MB of pure storage, baby. For some reason I thought we still needed the two disk drives as well, but I don't remember why.
"Oh what a mess we weave when we amiss interleave!"
We'd set the interleave to, say, 4:1 (four revolutions to read all data in a track, IIRC), because the hard drive was too fast for the CPU to deal with the data... ha.
More evidence CEOs really don't do much: He has the time to do this, despite being CEO of how many companies?