more coffee:

In better news, my Fort Lauderdale newspaper this morning says the detainees are gone from Alligator Alcatraz. Of course, this doesn't mean they sent them somewhere decent, but being held in the middle of the Everglades in this heat is unimaginable.

Thanks Megan!! I may contemplate some of that. Hard to hate the bubble when it makes me 401K look so fat at the moment, and wouldn’t want to miss out on gains but goodness there must be a burst of bubble at some point here. That said in my non 401K financial life I am wildly over conservative so maybe it evens out. TBD.

Aurelia you had the fermented shark?? You are a brave and trusting human, my goodness.

Thanks, megan, that’s very helpful!

Thanks for that, megan.

Thanks for the info Megan! I just finished the process for a 401k loan to get my mom's debt under control so I'm reluctant to tinker with anything else at the moment, but once things stabilize under that new setup I may look into moving some portion into a less tech-dependent fund so I don't end up helping fund Musk's speedrun into the Kessler Syndrome.

Just copied your post and sent to Bob to read, megan. Our retirement accounts have been doing pretty well (& we only have the mortgage, debtwise, at the moment) but I’m stressing out about it all going poof as work has been increasingly harder for me to come by and the years pass. I need to be looking at all that shiz more strategically.

Hard to hate the bubble when it makes me 401K look so fat at the moment, and wouldn’t want to miss out on gains but goodness there must be a burst of bubble at some point here.

Yeah, that's the thing. Or, why I still have almost half in stocks. That's why I came up with this "gambling winnings" strategy where I basically view my stock funds as a set amount and anything they earn over time are my winnings and I periodically pocket those. I may be missing out on gains but if there's a huge fall I'm mitigating losses. And, more importantly, I'll have money on hand to buy the dip. "Buy low, sell high!" I think Berkshire Hathaway is more than 50% cash/bonds at this point and I figure what's good enough for Warren Buffet is good enough for me.

what's good enough for Warren Buffet is good enough for me.

Sound thinking

Aurelia you had the fermented shark?? You are a brave and trusting human, my goodness.

Just enough to say I tried it. It smelled terrible, but the taste was just fishy.