53 degrees this morning, 44:27 minutes walking
Hard to decide how to dress for the “warmer” weather on my walk this morning! I ended up dressing about right, it was a little cool at first, but I quickly heated up.
Finished “Winter of the World” this morning. The 3rd and last book, “Edge of Eternity” is about another 36 hours, so I will probably finish it around Spring, which may be appropriate.
“Cutting the Cord” is an interesting concept, but my recent experience makes me wonder how it will be implemented. (By this, I mean cutting off cable tv and using “streaming”of movies and shows etc.)
While I am in my office, I “stream” CNBC, normally about 6-8 hours. I don’t necessarily watch it, but I have it on. I “stream” it since there is no cable connection in the office.
What is strange is that the report from my cable company indicates that I use up to 30 GB of an 300 GB monthly limit of data in just one day. Otherwise, when I don’t “stream” it, we use a nominal amount of our data allotment..
I wonder when somebody “cuts the cord”, how are they going to have enough data capacity allocated from the internet provider/ May be something I don’t know, but even if you watch a nominal amount of movies, shows etc., it seems you would rapidly exceed the amount of assigned data usage available for the month.
My understanding is the cable company doesn’t necessary cut you off or even take any action if you “exceed” the limit, but it seems this would be a major factor in “cutting the cord”.
I tried Netflix for a short time, but since they never seemed to have the movie we wanted to watch (and we don’t watch that many movies anywayI), and I don’t care for “series” shows, I canceled it. Now, I really wonder how anyone could use it much without exceeding the available “data usage”.
A mobile phone/ipad etc. is especially vulnerable in this case since many plans limit usage to 2 GB etc., hardly enough for a month of “streaming”, assuming you don’t use wi fi.
Actually my set up in my office is an “Apple tv”, and I also have an antenna that I can pick up about 50 over the air channels (most of which I wouldn’t care to watch, but that is true with cable tv also!)
Started my taxes today. I don’t necessarily “enjoy” it, but in a way I look forward to it, at least getting taxes done. Actually, I do enjoy it! I enjoy it a lot more when I don’t have to pay of course!
I use “on-line” Turbo Tax, which isn’t bad. It has a lot of advertising and tricks to try to trick you into buying additional items, but it actually works pretty good.
I dreaded taxes this year because we will have income from two states and all kinds of weird income and expenses. I’ll have two different employers, retirement income, IRA distributions, job hunting expenses, moving expenses. I”m not quite sure how I decide which income was in which state, but I expect they have some kind of formula.
It will be a weird tax return. Normally I really enjoy doing it, and I probably will this year, after i figure out how to handle the two state deal.
In a way it reminds me of my job, in that there is a lot of records and work, but I always feel a sense of satisfaction when I finish.
There is another China tour by the International City Managers Association (ICMA) this year in April. It is aimed at persons who want to do consulting work with China. Of course I won’t be going, since I don’ that have enough time, but hopefully I can go again in the future.
We are going to watching a great-granddaughter this morning. It is always fun. The cycle continues.
That’s it for now, Sunday, January 25, 2015
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