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A relief…

… to extract a wee bit of MAGA from my libtard/social justice warrior consciousness. I did that by meeting my adult daughter Lizard and our cousin npJane (first cousin to me and first cousin once removed to my daughter). We met for lunch downtown at the Jolly Pumpkin.

I won’t go into all the details but it was polly-tickle stuff (we three definitely agree) and cabin stuff and random family stuff. I have said this before but npJane was a young but full-fledged adult when Lizard was born. They formed a strong bond early on, one that continues such that they have attended conferences together for their work. How cool is that?

COBOL programming came up today. I don’t know COBOL but I do know FORTRAN. Are we gonna be able to change the social security system? The one that I actually get payments from even though I still work and have a salary I never dreamed I would ever have.

I have said this before and will say it again. Changing a legacy system (like social security or online banking) is very complicated. It takes years and a lot of careful design work. That’s what I do.

When DOGE says they are gonna re-do social security in a couple weeks, my take is, “Oh no you’re not.” Nope.

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2 Responses to “A relief…”

  1. Margaret Says:
    April 27th, 2025 at 10:48 pm

    I’m very nervous about SS. I could make it without it but it would be a definite change in the budget. It is a relief to speak with like-minded people.

  2. Pam J. Says:
    April 28th, 2025 at 8:27 am

    I’m in the 0.0001% of the population who says the gov could take away my husband’s SS and it wouldn’t change much in our life. And that’s definitely not b/c we’re independently wealthy. We’re not. But he and I both have retirement income from our jobs. I’m not saying we might not come to rely on the SS eventually. We have no long-term care insurance (if I was smart, I’d probably roll Doug’s SS into a LT care policy but I’m not), we have no investments other than a small 401K and a couple of small CDs. But I know, esp from my meals on wheels work in my neighborhood, that a lot of people near me live entirely on SS and they can’t lose it without suffering. I never understand why we don’t just start taking SS $$ out of ALL of everyone’s earnings instead of just the first $130,000 or so. I think I’ve got that right but I’m not going to check right now. Harummpf.