Thanksgiving 2022: “Out of the mouth of babes …”
Posted By RichC on November 24, 2022
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Short video tidbit: Another way to fold sheet corners
Posted By RichC on November 23, 2022
Music Monday: “Hey Jude” (or Julian) – The Beatles
Posted By RichC on November 21, 2022
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Native American tribes in America before the Europeans #maps
Posted By RichC on November 20, 2022
Maps and history have always held my interest (as they do for my son Taylor too). Having grown up when schools glossed over most of American the history prior to Columbus in 1492 (or perhaps the Vikings) … it is interesting to learn a little bit more about the “approximately 20 million” Native Americans that populated North America prior to the 16th century.
I certainly did not remember learning that there were “over 1000 tribes, bands or clans” prior to disease and war during the first 300 years that our country was “founded” (hm?) I’m not a “woke” education advocate and prefer most of what we learn is from the contemporary teaching of American history, but I still don’t mind some attention to and learning about the native population … and particularly enjoy learning through maps. Check out the article “Why Isn’t This Map in the History Books?”
While I’m on the subject of maps, history and learning, I’m going to pull a book by Gavin Menzies off our bookshelves (below) that I started several years ago but never finished. The “claim” by Menzles is that the Chinese sailed to America before Columbus. It is intriguing …even if most historians call his assertion pseudohistory.
His book 1421: The Year China Discovered the World, is a work of sheer fiction presented as revisionist history. Not a single document or artifact has been found to support his new claims on the supposed Ming naval expeditions beyond Africa … Menzies’ numerous claims and the hundreds of pieces of "evidence" he has assembled have been thoroughly and entirely discredited by historians, maritime experts and oceanographers from China, the U.S., Europe and elsewhere.
Our Chick-fil-A order was securely delivered with a smile
Posted By RichC on November 19, 2022
Our Chick-fil-A order last week was “securely” delivered to our car by a law enforcement officer … and with a smile (wish I could have tipped him)!
My kind of city and state. Community outreach does not get much better than this! #lawenforcement & @ChickfilA working together to keep the line moving. pic.twitter.com/oisMROLqLz
— Rich Corbett (@RichC) November 17, 2022
Edit add: Missing photo from the embed after conversion to X.com? Added below …
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Tech Friday: Wyze Cams satisfy my gadget addiction
Posted By RichC on November 18, 2022
My older Canary Cams are still working but will eventually be retired as lower priced and higher quality Wyze Cams and Wyze Cam3s have 
become the “go to” products to fill my gadget 
addiction.
On Wednesday a male cardinal trigger one of my cams and it reminded me to check on my subscription, re-read the promotional email announcing the new Wyze Cam v3 Pro and to include Drew’s new Wyze Solar Panel powered outdoor Wyze Cam.
Excellent Barron’s article on tax-lost harvesting strategies
Posted By RichC on November 17, 2022
In Barron’s Magazine (11/10/2022), there was an excellent article by 
Karen Hube on “How to Use This Year’s Market Tumble to Reduce Your Tax Bill.” The read is helpful for those contemplating a way to use their losses to offset what they may have sold … or using the “market tumble” as a way to book losses this year that can be used going forward.
Personally, the article is just something I wanted to archive since it also mentioned the current difference in how crypto losses are handled vs regulated equities.
This year’s market mayhem could shave your tax bill for years to come.
With just weeks to go, 2022 is poised for steep negative annual returns in both stocks and bonds, a correlated collapse that has occurred only twice since 1926—in 1931 and 1969. So far, stocks are down by 22% and bonds by 15%, and adding to this year’s drubbing is a more-than 50% decline in the values of major cryptocurrencies.
Learning the phonetic alphabet at a young age
Posted By RichC on November 16, 2022
While talking with an aviation (and space) acquaintance on Twitter earlier this week, I mentioned that while playing “old-school” Battleship with my granddaughter, that 
I was teaching her the phonetic alphabet (military, aviation, nautical, amateur radio, etc). Thankfully while playing the game, we only made it to “K” since the grid on the game only goes to “J” … and I started to get concerned if I really should be teaching a 5-1/2 year old about “W” … or what her teacher and parents might think! HA!
Our family together for Dave Schneider’s Celebration of Life
Posted By RichC on November 15, 2022
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Music Monday: “Make Your Own Kind of Music” – Cass Elliot
Posted By RichC on November 14, 2022
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Desultory - des-uhl-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee
- lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation.
- digressing from or unconnected with the main subject; random: a desultory remark.