{"id":31538,"date":"2018-02-23T07:53:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T15:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31538"},"modified":"2018-02-23T07:53:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T15:53:38","slug":"friday-fun-returning-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/23\/friday-fun-returning-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fun – Returning Soon …"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Unfortunately I just have too much on my plate right now.<\/p>\n

I’ll be heading back to Illinois to<\/p>\n

[1] Meet w\/ Mom’s accountant to do her 2017 taxes – and begin work on a final estate tax form (w\/e that is)<\/p>\n

[2] Help the auction site we’ve used to sell the farmhouse, farm land and most of Mom’s belongings when she moved into Assisted Living empty out her apartment.\u00a0 Fortunately there’s not that much since we worked so hard to sort & purge when she moved her into the apartment<\/p>\n

[3] File the Will w\/ the County Circuit Clerk & begin that paperwork.\u00a0 Fortunately almost everything was either POD (Payable on Death) or had named beneficiaries – so looks like we’ll be able to avoid Probate.<\/p>\n

But had another bump in the road.\u00a0 My brother, who’s been having a series of serious medical issues, flew back to Florida a week ago last Wednesday (14th).\u00a0 I drove back on the 15th – and when I got home there were a number of urgent messages on the voicemail.<\/p>\n

That morning his cleaning lady found him unconscious on the floor.\u00a0 Thank God it was her day to do the cleaning!<\/p>\n

So back into the hospital he went for even more tests.\u00a0 They found that he had 90% blockage of his left carotid artery.\u00a0 So on Wednesday he had a endarterectomy done, and got to go home (which he was chomping at the bit to do) last night.<\/p>\n

He has a special-needs kitty cat whose legs are almost paralyzed – so he has to put her in the litterbox and then take her out; take her to the food\/water bowl; etc.\u00a0 He has two other normal cats that he also dearly missed.\u00a0 Since his wife passed last Labor Day weekend, the cats have become even more important to him.<\/p>\n

At any rate, I hope that I’ll be able to do something next week.\u00a0 Although I have my own taxes staring me in the face when I get back.\u00a0 And this year I’ll have to start taking my RMD (Required Minimum Distribution) from my IRAs.\u00a0 Just beginning to learn the ins-and-outs of how that works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unfortunately I just have too much on my plate right now. I’ll be heading back to Illinois to [1] Meet w\/ Mom’s accountant to do her 2017 taxes – and begin work on a final estate tax form (w\/e that is) [2] Help the auction site we’ve used to sell the farmhouse, farm land and […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}