Jim Bauer

@porwest (62911)

United States • Age 49

Joined myLot 5 years ago

Just a simple guy with nothing better to do than to waste a little time with my myLot friends. Dabble in some music here and there, and just lead a simple life.

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Jim Bauer's Discussions

About Social Security

Jim Bauer @porwest (62911) • United States 11h

Social Security is something offered to workers in the United States when they retire to help them through their retirement years when they no longer have a paycheck coming in. But there are a lot of misconceptions about...

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A Little Unexpected Windfall

Jim Bauer @porwest (62911) • United States 15h

From time to time, companies either need to unload cash or something else happens that they feel more is due to shareholders than their typical dividend. They are most often referred to as "supplemental dividends." One such...

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Pa*Du*Cah

Jim Bauer @porwest (62911) • United States 2 Feb

Don't ask me why I spelled it that way in the title. Probably just to get your attention? Is that click bait? Who knows? Either way, you are here, so let's chat, shall we? It is my wife's birthday that is coming up. No, that's...

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Why Do I Talk So Much About Money?

Jim Bauer @porwest (62911) • United States 2 Feb

Well, the long and short is that I know a thing or two about the topic. How to earn, how best to spend, how to plan and budget, how to save and invest... And I like to share it. Why? Because hopefully it helps someone. Because I...

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A Thing About Oil

Jim Bauer @porwest (62911) • United States 1 Feb

When people think about oil, what do they think about? Gasoline and diesel. Maybe some consider other things like propane and butane. Byproducts of refining processes. If someone's mind is particularly astute, they...

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This Post is a Cut Above...or Something Like That

Jim Bauer @porwest (62911) • United States 31 Jan

I will admit, it may be a darn tootin' stupid thing to write about. But hey, give me some cred here. It's not a post about money or politics! Anybody can come into a post like this. Republicans, democrats, poor people and...

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Where Do You Get Your Financial Advice

Jim Bauer @porwest (62911) • United States 31 Jan

This is something that occurs to me from time to time. It's who's advice some people tend to weigh more heavily on when it comes to financial matters. Take me. I listen to the words and follow the activities and ideas of people...

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Just DO It....Who Cares?

Jim Bauer @porwest (62911) • United States 30 Jan

Laurels, motives and ulterior motives are all great things. So are convictions and principles. But at the end of the day? When there is money involved? Sometimes you just suck it up and do what you got to do. I have always said...

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Go Slow

Jim Bauer @porwest (62911) • United States 30 Jan

Have you ever heard of the term, "Go slow?" It is a term commonly used in a workplace environment when workers become unsatisfied with work conditions, pay, or other issues that they feel are important to them that are being...

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Sometimes People Surprise You

Jim Bauer @porwest (62911) • United States 27 Jan

Sometimes when you are on the Internet, in social media circles, someone shares something that you expect will probably not be something remarkable or interesting. One might say, "Why, Porwest. You do that all the time when you...

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Hotel Coffee Troubles

Jim Bauer @porwest (62911) • United States 26 Jan

If I have not mentioned it, I got to have my coffee. And when I travel on business it is not uncommon for me to ask for extra coffee packets so I can have as many cups as I want. Many of the hotels have coffee available in the...

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Musk Gets The Last Laugh

Jim Bauer @porwest (62911) • United States 25 Jan

Let me simply start by saying that Tesla's stock has long been overvalued. And by a heap ton. Before the stock crashed roughly 60% in value, the market cap of Tesla was bigger than Ford, GM, Honda and Toyota—combined. In...

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One Thing That Sucks

Jim Bauer @porwest (62911) • United States 24 Jan

Perhaps it is a first-world problem of sorts? Of course, it is really just a minor inconvenience. Still, it sucks. Let's just be honest here. As you know from my previous post, I will be headed off to Kansas for work and of...

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Potentially Treacherous Trip

Jim Bauer @porwest (62911) • United States 23 Jan

Well, here we are again. Another work trip. This time to Wichita, Kansas and then to Kansas City and back home, meeting with customers. Lucky me, there is a bit of a "winter storm" in development, and it looks like I might get...

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Did Somebody Make a Wittle Whoopsie Daisy?

Jim Bauer @porwest (62911) • United States 23 Jan

Meanwhile, at the office of Dumb and Dumber, marketers emeritus, Tom Dumb calls over Bob Dumber to discuss an issue with him. "Do you see what I see?" asks Tom Dumb. Bob Dumber scans a photograph containing his ad design for...

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Slowly But Surely

Jim Bauer @porwest (62911) • United States 23 Jan

I enjoy writing longer pieces, and while sometimes I do write longer pieces here (to the chagrin of some I would suspect), this site is still not suitable to the kind of writing that I really enjoy doing. Read.cash is a...

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On The Topic of Ghosts

Jim Bauer @porwest (62911) • United States 21 Jan

You know, the topic of ghosts got brought up as topics of ghosts often do. I was reminded of an episode of The Rizzutto Show on the local alternative radio station here, which is quite funny actually. They were of course, talking...

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Normally I Don't Play

Jim Bauer @porwest (62911) • United States 19 Jan

In the state of Illinois there is a little lottery called the Lucky Day Lottery. It starts at $100,000 and goes up from there every time there is not a winner. Sometimes it gets over $1 million, but it is rare. It's $1 per...

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Poisoned Food?

Jim Bauer @porwest (62911) • United States 19 Jan

It would be an odd thing to think that a customer might poison himself with rat poison. But while the details are inconclusive and the event is still under investigation, it at least seems to appear that might be what...

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I Lie Sometimes

Jim Bauer @porwest (62911) • United States 18 Jan

No. No. Not here! Just sit right back down, will ya? I know half a ya's probably knocked your chairs over when you saw that title and stood straight up. [i]"He finally admitted it! The bastige finally admitted...

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