Hi folks, Jack Spirko here.

Today you are listening to an episode of TSP Rewind.

Commercial free versions of past episodes,

Podcasts from the pasts.

I put these up when I can't do a show due to professional commitments or rare vacations.

These podcasts will appear in standard iTunes stitcher and other feeds, but will be titled TSP rewind episodes and numbered accordingly.

And today folks we are rewinding back to September 16 2009 episode 278 originally.

Preparedness as a retirement plan and I'll give you a little new

content on this and some context of how this episode came about in just a moment.

First I just want to let you know why you're getting rewinds today and tomorrow and then a Friday flashback.

So I am very proud to let you guys know that my niece is graduating from Texas A&M University with a degree in animal science.

And so being the College Station is not that far away, unlike my nephew who was in Nebraska

for college and then graduated from law school

in Vermont, I am going down to see her graduate.

That's going to take an overnight trip.

It means we're leaving Wednesday, we're coming back Thursday.

We've got a farm sitter as always.

Our buddy Michael is going to take care of the place while we're gone and the dogs will be

happy because they'll have a new friend to hang out with.

So that's why it's not like I just I am sodding off on a vacation or

something like that that we will try to build some recreation into it my wife is

a Christmas like Christmas nut and there is some cool opportunities between here and

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