This morning, I have been reminiscing about the presumptions I had about Costa Rica before arriving here in September of last year. It has been a very pleasant experience discovering where I presumed amiss! First thing I did when I got up this morning was take a hot shower, my first in weeks. It […]
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Finally! WOO HOO! Success at long last! The transfer from where my IRA is now to Schwab International is finally squared away on paper so I’ll fax or mail the documents tomorrow from Grecia. I filled out the three multiple-page documents and then called the Schwab help line to get my last two
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I’m taking the day off from the Schwab IRA Transfer and RMD clusterfuck. I can only handle so much frustration in a week’s time, and today isn’t the day. The newest hiccup is I may have to pay a driver to take me to an appointment in San Jose at the US Embassy to
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The bathroom scale has confirmed something that I haven’t experienced since I was 12 or 13 years old. I am within “Healthy Weight Range” now! I’ve been consistently at 149 for the past three weeks, so I decided that this has become my baseline for now. So, I googled BMI Scale to see how
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Today is Saturday March 21, 2026 and I’m planning, now, to sit and spill. By this, I mean spill HERE all the stuff I’ve been handwriting for the past couple of days. The good, the bad, and the ugly. First, the Bad and the Ugly I have never, in my entire life,
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Today’s brief update in a single soundbite, for those of you who want to do something other than read a lengthy blog post today: I rode to Grecia with the Garrisons this morning for breakfast at ANDALUZ and to find some dog-proof duds. They had their Uber pick me up here at my place
Well, CRAP! I got bitten by a dog on THIS Friday the 13th! That’s a first for me since the 1980’s! That little sucker was bent on mangling me, too, but it failed miserably, I’m happy to report. If I see it again, I will take a picture and call 911 to
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I’m playing catch up here again because — when I haven’t been having fun out and about — I’ve been sitting here having fun studying Spanish. But it has all been delightful, so guess I’d better share it before I get so far behind that I give up writing this blog altogether. (Yeah, like
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It’s time to catch you up on my Friday, Saturday and Sunday fun with my friends the Garrisons. Perhaps I should be calling this Garrison Gaeity Week. I have been in almost constant companionship with them during my waking hours for — what — four days now??? Ever since my 75th birthday! How
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Before I hit the hay tonight, I MUST report on my 75th Birthday Dinner courtesy of my delightful friends/Costa Rica family, The Garrisons. I was invited to dinner at the Andaluz Restaurant in downtown Grecia by the Garrisons a day or so ago. At the appointed hour, I walked down the hill to their
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