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I went to Doctor Jim today for my semiannual checkup. This is not the big on with the EKG. It is mostly a finger job for my prostate cancer. Even after 16 years. Twice a year. Also a PSA.

He also does other touchy feely stuff. A blood pressure. There will be some lab tests on top of the PSA. Tomorrow. So far so good. I told him about my goal of living until 90. He says 93 would be a better guess and that only because it is his experience that even the long lived begin to fall apart after that. That said, he has several 90+ year olds and they haven't started on the feeble thing yet.

Incidentally, if you think that time passes more quickly as you get older, you are right and the 90s claim it has continued to speed onward.

That means that the fast living people live longer or is it the other way around. The longer you live the faster you are.

Never mind.

I got my 2011 tax returns from my accountant today.

I don't have to pay any tax because they owe me money.

Oddly, or not, it feels like I don't owe them anything. That I am home free.

Even if it is my money that they have. I already paid it.

It is the old funny thing.

This goes right along with the people who have their tax withheld and hope to get a refund. They are so happy! A gift!

Never mind that they have already paid that money and got no interest on it.

But the illusion of a bonus somehow makes them happy.

It just shows how accessible happiness really is if you strike the right attitude. Even if it is based on an illusion.

The weather has gone to shit here just as my ex-business partner is here to play some golf. We are seeing them tomorrow for dinner.

It shows how long I have been here that I actually care that they get the right impression of how great the weather is here compared to Florida where they have chosen to retire. Where summers are unlivable at the humidity at any temperature. Dew point disasters.

It is the old sun-spot rivalry. Our heat is better than yours.

We don't have heat this week. In fact they are predicting 3-6 inches of snow on the mountains above 5000 feet.

Well, they don't have THAT in Florida.

But there were a bunch of rainbows this morning. That rain and sun type of rain. Showers just making it over the mountain on the west while the sun rises in, well where else, in the east.

Labels: finance, health, weather