Today’s comic title is, of course, a play-on-words of the often mocked and parodied phrase, “It was a dark and stormy night”. It’s become the literary cliche of an example of a florid, melodramatic style of fiction writing. Charles Schulz[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the kind of day, today, that I’m happy that I’m able to do. Now that I’m living just minutes from my mother’s house, after living hundreds of miles away since 1983, I’m available to help her out. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve always known I was going to get some sort of pension from Hasbro. I worked there from 1983 thru 1989, back in the olden days when companies still offered and gave pensions. This letter though, broke down the whole[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This isn’t the first time I’ve been phone-interviewed about my days at Hasbro. Back on January 4, 2014 I was interviewed by a fellow named Jim Sorenson who was writing a book called “Transformers Legacy: A Celebration of Transformers Package Art”. I think[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve NEVER been a morning person. Never. Even though I need to wake up so early I still can’t ge to bed early. I usually get to bed about midnight and after reading a bit, I probably fall asleep by[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the comic from July of 2017 where I signed the papers to begin withdrawing funds from my IRA. I don’t know why people seem compelled to ask that question. What do they want to know? If you’re from a city or[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Years and years ago I got into the habit of saving any change I had, at the end of the day, into banks on my bedroom dresser. Banks full of quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies. My mom enjoys putting the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yeah, those were some low times when I was forced to start transferring money from my IRA. But, it did help me get by these past four months. Now comes the hard part. I packed all my CD’s and Tapes along with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve held off doing this for as long as I could. I’m sure financial managers all over would be yelling at me NOT to do this, that you should NEVER touch your retirement IRA’s before you retire. But, since I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
