TSP-roulette, I think the FERS social security supplement is only for those retiring before 62. If you retire after 62 with 20+ years I thought you got you're FERS annuity bumped up from 1 to 1.1 percent a year instead. Am I understanding this correctly?
PO, that's a funny story about the 80 - 89 dBa's. Everytime I see DBA in print I think DataBase Administrator. So DreamboatAnnie, are you in fact a DB admin. ?
Hi Cactus, I am not a Database Administrator. I have worked as OIG auditor at HHS for much of my career (fighting waste, fraud and abuse ); but for past 5 years worked for VA in accounting and now more recently with IT acquisitions, so I do know some DBA's!
My site name has to do with my love of music and the group Heart (the best female group of my tim) and it relates to the song "DreamboatAnnie because of the lyrics and music. I am definitely a dreamer (or as the song says, " a little ship of dreams" and walking in crowd....."lonely one with head in clouds". While I am firmly rooted in reality, inside there is a little of this.
So here's my song:
"Dreamboat Annie" Heart - YouTube
Plus one more -- absolute hands down favorite: Dog and Butterfly- most beautiful both lyrically and vocally by Nancy Wilson. Song is about reaching for heights in life, even when possibly not attainable . Described by dog leaping to catch butterfly. I also like to sing this sometimes when I get a chance to go out with friends for karaoke..
Heart Ann & Nancy Wilson Dog & Butterfly Live - YouTube
LYRICS
"Dreamboat Annie"
Heading out this morning into the sun
Riding on the diamond waves, little darlin' one
Warm wind caress her
Her lover it seems
Oh, Annie
Dreamboat Annie my little ship of dreams
Going down the city sidewalk alone in the crowd
No one knows the lonely one whose head's in the clouds
Sad faces painted over with those magazine smiles
Heading out to somewhere won't be back for a while
Dog and Butterfly
There I was with the old man stranded again so off I'd ran
A young world crashin' around me
No possibilities of gettin' what I need
He looked at me and smiled said, "No, no, no, no, no child"
See the dog and butterfly up in the air he like to fly
Dog and butterfly below she had to try
She roll back down to the warm soft ground laughin'
She don't know why, she don't know why dog and butterfly
Well I stumbled upon your secret place
Safe in the trees you had tears on your face
Wrestlin' with your desires frozen strangers stealin' your fires
The message hit my mind only words that I could find
We see the dog and butterfly up in the air he like to fly
Dog and butterfly below she had to try
She roll back down to the warm soft ground
Laughin' to the sky, up to the sky dog and butterfly
We're gettin' older the world's gettin' colder
For the life of me I don't know the reason why
Maybe it's livin' makin' us give in hearts rollin' in taken back on the tide
We're balanced together ocean upon the sky
Another night in this strange town moonlight holdin' me light as down
Voice of confusion inside of me
Just beggin' to go back where I'm free
Feels like I'm through then the old man's words are true
We see the dog and butterfly up in the air he like to fly
Dog and butterfly, below she had to try
She roll back down to the warm soft ground
With a little tear in her eye she had to try, she had to try
Dog and butterfly, yeah, up in the air, he liked to fly
The dog and butterfly, below she had to try
She rolled back down to the warm soft ground
Laughin' she don't know why but she had to try, she had to try
Dog and butterfly
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