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Marvelous

After I finished up watching all of Reacher on Amazon Prime, I was wondering what series I should watch next, a couple days ago I found out, we are getting a fourth season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. The first three seasons came out in 2017, 2018 & 2019 and I had completely forgotten about the show, a show that both Donna and I thoroughly enjoyed.

So, in preparation for the fourth season that starts on the 18th of February, we are rewatching the first 3 seasons again. Right now we are just past the halfway point of the first 26 episodes. In a show about a stand-up comedian the stand-up is not as funny as the fake audiences make it sound, but the cast, the writing and the overall look and feel of the show keeps us coming back.

Remember about a week ago I wrote that I sort of wished that Reacher wasn’t dropped all at once, but doled out a show a week like the sixth season of The Expanse was? Well, Amazon heard me, sort of, if the IMDB page for the fourth season is accurate, the six episodes will be released two at a time on four consecutive Fridays.

17 miles of running to the Running Y.
Times Miata Driven since 01/01/22: 8

 

Lost Mail?

Up until now I can count on one finger the number of pieces of mail of ours, that have gotten lost. But that number has tripled in the last month.

It is tax time and all the necessary paperwork has been rolling in, all except for Brian’s 2021 Economic Impact Statement letter. We got Donna’s in the mail a couple week’s ago, but mine hasn’t shown up. Not that we really needed it, we both got the amount. So I just doubled the figure on hers when I entered the info into the tax software and we didn’t qualify for the Recovery Rebate credit (whatever that is.)

We are now both getting Social Security, so I made a test tax return for 2022 that includes that money in addition to our small pensions and the IRA withdrawals. Oregon doesn’t tax Social Security, but the US government does and if we didn’t take withholding from it we would have had a pretty hefty tax bill next year. We both filled out a W-4V and mailed them to our local (Medford) Social Security Administration office.

We used separate envelopes and a week or so later I received something back acknowledging that I had asked for withholding. Donna did not and sure enough, there wasn’t any money taken out of her most recent deposit. Yesterday we mailed a second W-4V out, hopefully this one won’t get misplaced somewhere.

7.5 miles of errand running.
Times Miata Driven since 01/01/22: 6

 

Not Freaky Fast Today

We wanted to get some Jimmy Johns subs for lunch so I placed our standard order in the app and selected “as soon as possible” for a pick up time. It is a mere 10 minute drive to the store from home, with changing into real clothes and driving over it is typically waiting for me when I get there.

Today they didn’t live up to their motto of “Freaky Fast” at all. When I entered the store they were over a dozen people standing around awaiting sandwiches. There were only 3 employees working, where they usually have five, and one of them was taking orders of the walk-ins. I probably had a 15 minute wait compared to the normal, open the door, grab order and leave.

17.1 miles on a nice little loop.
Times Miata Driven since 01/01/22: 5

 

Cheeky Kid – Part One

First some background. We live on a street that has 2 one way lanes separated by a 30 foot section of grass. In New Orleans where Donna grew up this grassy section between the pavement was called a Neutral Ground. In downtown Aiken, SC where we lived for 30 years, when this style road happened we just called it a median. Here in Klamath Falls we don’t know what they call it because it is the only street in town constructed in this manner.

In the other two places mentioned above the city took care of these grassy areas between the streets, here who knows. There is a sprinkler system in place up and down the street and the grass gets plenty of water, so in the summer it needs mowing once every couple weeks and somebody does do it. We have lived here for two years and the first year I don’t remember who did it, I think somebody from the next block up. This last summer the kid who lives across mowed it. Yesterday we got a letter in the mail from him:

December 30, 2021

Dear Mr. & Mrs. Bogardus,

My name is John Doe and I mow the center divide for all residents in the 1000 block of Pacific Terrace. The fee for 2021 is $49.50 per homeowner, which includes my fee of $400 and a Spray & Grow Fee for $95.00.

Please remit payment to me for the 2021 upkeep of the center divide in the amount of $49.50.

Thank you.

John Doe
1098 Pacific Terrace
Klamath Falls, OR 97601
541-555-9999

To be continued…

8 mile ice cream run.
Times Miata Driven since 01/01/22: 4

 

Another Moore Park Monday

Like last Monday, and most others, we went to Moore Park to go for a walk along the paved trails. Today was nice enough to take the Miata again. After walking, we drove down to the main drag through town to visit our favorite Greek restaurant to pick up gyros for dinner to eat while watching Monday Night Football1. And with the nice weather and in town speeds after Arby’s, we even dropped the top for the last couple miles home.

11 mile trip around town.
Times Miata Driven since 01/01/22: 3

 

Moore Park Monday

We try and go for a walk everyday and we usually shoot for 2 or 3 miles, but sometimes when it is really cold we might just get a mile in. There are a couple of different walks we like to every week and one of them is to drive over to Moore Park to do a loop of the paved interior road on winter days like today (other times of the year we use the extensive park trail system.)

Today it was not too cold, but we had to limit our loop because of the snow cover still on the park roads, so we ended up only walking a mile and two thirds. The regular surface streets in town are free of snow, so we drove over in the CTBNL.

7 miles, Moore Park and back for our afternoon walk.
Times Miata Driven since 01/01/22: 2