I think FB people know the work story - suffice to say it's complicated. Long story short, I've been on short term disability since mid-Aug. I've spent most of that traveling, going to doctor appts (usually take the bus), having the flu (unrelated to disability), and doing a lot of paperwork. I'm still employed by Google.
Being off work has made me seriously wonder, more than once, whether I could retire right now. If we didn't have a kid, definitely. If we wanted to spend the next 30 years in Smalltown USA, probably. Unfortunately, neither of those things work for us and we really like spending money on travel.
I have to admit I'm disappointed the general warranty is only three years. I know I got a bottom dollar price on the car, but I'm used to buying CPO that are 1-2 years old and having ~5 years left. Only getting three years on a brand new car is lame. I think my Legacy was five. Three years went by in a flash... maybe because we had a kid four months before I bought it.
Being off work has made me seriously wonder, more than once, whether I could retire right now. If we didn't have a kid, definitely. If we wanted to spend the next 30 years in Smalltown USA, probably. Unfortunately, neither of those things work for us and we really like spending money on travel.
I have to admit I'm disappointed the general warranty is only three years. I know I got a bottom dollar price on the car, but I'm used to buying CPO that are 1-2 years old and having ~5 years left. Only getting three years on a brand new car is lame. I think my Legacy was five. Three years went by in a flash... maybe because we had a kid four months before I bought it.
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth
"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth