{"id":7520,"date":"2026-08-26T04:10:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T04:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsf.ac\/Journal\/?p=7520"},"modified":"2026-08-26T04:10:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T04:10:30","slug":"8-25-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsf.ac\/Journal\/8-25-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"8\/25\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211;Took Grace shopping at Bel Air.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Stopped at UPS to pick up a boatload of stuff, including liver of sulfur. Finally got it all entered into my spreadsheet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Vicolo pizza for dinner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Spent a lot of time looking atcoastal real estate. Figured a way to maybe buy something for a million: $400k down from my cash stash, $4k\/month mortgage payments from my IRA. This would be the same draw-down as I&#8217;m doing now ($50k\/year), and so should not have disastrous tax consequences. And there&#8217;s no 10% early withdrawal penalty since I&#8217;m over 59-1\/2. PROBLEM IS: leaving a house empty 90% of the time invites crime, whereas HOA dues on a safe condo are $1&#8211;$1.5k a month. And of course the million dollar floor is mostly fixer-uppers, a mile from the beach, Seascape, etc. CRAP!!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Took a shower and shave. I was hoping that small scab at the bottom of my pacemaker scar would come of, but it didn&#8217;t. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s threatening, but it is annoying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211;Took Grace shopping at Bel Air. &#8211;Stopped at UPS to pick up a boatload of stuff, including liver of sulfur. Finally got it all entered into my spreadsheet. &#8211;Vicolo pizza for dinner. &#8211;Spent a lot of time looking atcoastal real estate. Figured a way to maybe buy something for a million: $400k down from my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsf.ac\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsf.ac\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsf.ac\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsf.ac\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsf.ac\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wsf.ac\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7521,"href":"https:\/\/wsf.ac\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7520\/revisions\/7521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsf.ac\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsf.ac\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsf.ac\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}