Ramblings of a (Re)tired Mind

[Warph]

               

I was thinking about how a status symbol of today is those cell phones that everyone has clipped onto their belt or purse. I can't afford one. So, I'm wearing my garage door opener.

I also made a cover for my hearing aid and now I have what they call blue teeth, I think.

You know, I spent a fortune on deodorant before I realized that people didn't like me anyway.

I was thinking that women should put pictures of missing husbands on beer cans!

I was thinking about old age and decided that old age is 'when you still have something on the ball, but you are just too tired to bounce it.'

I thought about making a fitness movie, for folks my age, and call it 'Pumping Rust.'

I have gotten that dreaded furniture disease. That's when your chest is falling into your drawers!

I know, when people see a cat's litter box, they always say, 'Oh, have you got a cat?'Just once I want to say, 'No, it's for company!'

Employment application blanks always ask who is to be notified in case of an emergency.' I think you should write, 'A Good Doctor!'

Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post Office? What are we supposed to do... write to these men? Why don't they just put their pictures on the postage stamps so the mailmen could look for them while they deliver the mail?  Or better yet, arrest them while they are taking their pictures!

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older. Then, it dawned on me, they were cramming for their finals.

As for me, I'm just hoping God grades on the curve.


' Enjoy Your Days & Love Your Life.'

Because: 'Life is a journey to be savored.'

[Warph]

How to Decipher a Social Security Number


Each Social Security number has three parts, though the first is the most informative. The first three digits can tell you what geographical area the person had a connection to and when he received his number. The last two parts can help you judge whether a Social Security number is a real, valid number. While a person is still living, the Social Security Administration keeps other information confidential, but after a person dies, you can also find out a little more.


1) Compare the first three digits to the "Chart of SSN Assignments by State" on the Social Security Administration's website. If the person received her number before 1972, the state indicates the location of the office that issued her card. After 1972, the area number reflects the mailing address that the person used when he applied for his card.

2) Check the Social Security Administration's current "High Group List" to see the highest group numbers issued for each area number. The two-digit group number follows the three-digit area number. However, group numbers don't run in normal numerical order. The Social Security Administration issues odd group numbers for each area from 01 to 09, then switches to even numbers starting with 10 and ending with 98. Then they start over with 02 and use the even numbers to 08, switching again to the odd numbers from 11 to 99.

The Social Security website shows the highest group numbers currently being issued for each area, so if someone gives you a Social Security number that's sequentially beyond that, you know it's fake. The final four digits are the serial numbers. They run in numerical order beginning with 0001. When someone in an area receives 9999, that area begins a new group number and begins again with a serial number of 0001.

3) Check the Social Security Death Index if you suspect the number belongs to someone who died after 1962. The list is incomplete for people who died before 1962, but some numbers for those people may appear on the index as well. If the person has died, you can find her name, birth date, death date and place of death in the Social Security Death Index.