The Very-Many-Questions-Not-Worth-Their-Own-Thread Thread 36

[Birdjaguar]

Well since I'm hopefully retiring in the next 12 months, this kind of is the last minute.

Waiting until you are past 65 makes a significant difference (unless you are into a 7 figure portfolio).

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Here's two silly questions:

1. I found an encrypted folder full of old bank statements from 7-8 years ago. (Luckily, the password was in LastPass.) Is there any need to keep a hold of these really old bank statements, or to even encrypt them?

2. When I turn on the shower, even though the faucet is running warm I always get hit with a blast of ice-cold water. (If I turn on the shower first, water goes everywhere when I try to get in.) Why does this happen?

 

[Synobun]

In regards to #1, for someone in your position, not really. But it doesn't hurt to keep them. It's not like it takes up an enormous amount of space.

 

[rah]

Waiting until you are past 65 makes a significant difference (unless you are into a 7 figure portfolio).

In October I will be both. The 65 is for medicare.

 

[Cutlass]

Here's two silly questions:

1. I found an encrypted folder full of old bank statements from 7-8 years ago. (Luckily, the password was in LastPass.) Is there any need to keep a hold of these really old bank statements, or to even encrypt them?

2. When I turn on the shower, even though the faucet is running warm I always get hit with a blast of ice-cold water. (If I turn on the shower first, water goes everywhere when I try to get in.) Why does this happen?

1. They are of no real worth if you destroy them.

2. There's a bit of cold water in the pipe up to the shower head that has to be cleared before the warm water can get there.

 

[warpus]

Sometimes when I bake carrots with onions, mushrooms, and chickenbreasts, the carrots come out cooked well throghout.. but sometimes they end up crunchy, even if you cook them the same way and just as long.

What do I need to look for if I want the kind of carrot that will bake well?

 

[Arakhor]

In the UK, financial documents are only legal documents for three years (or six, if they're bank statements). Unless Canadian laws vary wildly, you're safe to purge them with all due menace.

 

[Birdjaguar]

In October I will be both. The 65 is for medicare.

I waited until 69 to get SS, registered for medicare at 65. BTW, Medicare with supplemental plans is better than medicare advantage.

 

[Takhisis]

all due menace.

Interesting choice of words.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Sometimes when I bake carrots with onions, mushrooms, and chickenbreasts, the carrots come out cooked well throghout.. but sometimes they end up crunchy, even if you cook them the same way and just as long.

What do I need to look for if I want the kind of carrot that will bake well?

It's not the carrot, it's the cut. The only way I can imagine carrots being cooked through before onions, mushrooms, and chicken breasts are overdone is if they are either really thin baby carrots or regular carrots sliced at quarter inch, max. Anything thicker and a carrot just takes too long to cook with other stuff.

 

[warpus]

i swear i didn't make them any thicker, but they were wider.. but I will slice them even thinner next time, thanks

 

[Timsup2nothin]

i swear i didn't make them any thicker, but they were wider.. but I will slice them even thinner next time, thanks

Just about everyone is susceptible to the optical illusion of the bigger carrot and slices them thicker. At least, so I always hoped. Maybe it's just me.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

@aimeeandbeatles: I think that if records are 7 years or older, you can safely destroy them.

 

[rah]

I waited until 69 to get SS, registered for medicare at 65. BTW, Medicare with supplemental plans is better than medicare advantage.

I'll wait to 66 for SS. I'll tap funds and rely on a pension from a previous job to bide me over. And you're not the first to recommend sup over advantage, so thanks for the tip.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

My mother was watching one of those true-crime TV shows where a woman almost got killed, but she survived and several years later got married to one of the paramedics that saved her life. But is there some sort of ethics thing about this? I know doctors and patients aren't supposed to get romantically involved, but do paramedics (or emergency medical technicians, whatever) fall under the same rules?

 

[Snerk]

As long as you don't initiate any advances when you're on the clock I think you'll be fine as a paramedic. But IDK.

Paramedic1: Why are you giving her mouth-to-mouth, she's got a twisted ankle.
Paramedic2: Technically it's more tongue-to-mouth.

 

[EgonSpengler]

My mother was watching one of those true-crime TV shows where a woman almost got killed, but she survived and several years later got married to one of the paramedics that saved her life. But is there some sort of ethics thing about this? I know doctors and patients aren't supposed to get romantically involved, but do paramedics (or emergency medical technicians, whatever) fall under the same rules?

They wouldn't fall under the literal same set of rules, since the organizations that oversee those professions are different. But I could imagine that fire departments and ambulance services could have a similar rule in place for their employees. In this case, the fact that they got married, and "several years" later, probably means there isn't an ethical issue here. My cursory understanding of that prohibition is to prevent conflicts of interest - I think doctors are supposed to avoid treating family members, for example, unless it's an emergency. I could also imagine a malpractice insurance provider having something to say about it.

 

[Silurian]

Here's two silly questions:

1. I found an encrypted folder full of old bank statements from 7-8 years ago. (Luckily, the password was in LastPass.) Is there any need to keep a hold of these really old bank statements, or to even encrypt them?

2. When I turn on the shower, even though the faucet is running warm I always get hit with a blast of ice-cold water. (If I turn on the shower first, water goes everywhere when I try to get in.) Why does this happen?

I assume that you can not point the shower head straight down before you get in then move it to point at you after you get in, so how about draping a small towel over the the shower head so the water goes down. Do not use a big towel as it could be to much weight on the shower and do not wrap it around as the restriction on flow could damage any pumps valves etc.

 

[Traitorfish]

2. When I turn on the shower, even though the faucet is running warm I always get hit with a blast of ice-cold water. (If I turn on the shower first, water goes everywhere when I try to get in.) Why does this happen?

There will be some water sitting in the pipes- the valve is only located at the faucet itself- so the incoming hot water has to push it out of the way first. It's colder than room temperature because it's being stored in metal pipes behind walls or below ceilings, so it's insulated from the room itself.

 

[Kyriakos]

I want to ask for a possible short story idea:
Is there any easy to manufacture (or get hold of in a lab or elsewhere) fungus of the skin which could realistically cause fever (preferably) or paralysis? (And not lead to worse effects or at least not death).