u/SnakebytePayne

Disclaimer: I wasn't a native Wyomingite.

I grew up in Texas and bounced around the world for the military for a few decades. F.E. Warren was my last duty station and I liked Wyoming so much that I decided to stay after I retired. All in all, I spent 10 years living in Cheyenne and getting to experience most of what the rest of the state had to offer.

I left a few months ago for a job in the northeast, and I find myself heartbroken some nights. I know people have their complaints about Wyoming. "It's too red" or "It's too windy." I get it.

But what you guys have is a beautiful piece of the country that goes largely unnoticed. You have nature that isn't confined to a city park. You have vast stretches of rugged land that are solitude and peace for the right kind of person.

Thank you for sharing your state with me. Maybe it wasn't where I was originally "from", but it felt like home and I feel like I left a piece of my heart there when I left.

Currently sitting through an AFFORGEN/AEW 2.0 brief.

1. The entire slide deck is AI slop that was never proofed. Blocks of gibberish text and nonsensical visuals. How senior leaders can stand on a stage with that mess behind them is mind-blowing.

2. All of the lessons learned from Iraq and Afghanistan have either been forgotten or ignored. The "way forward" is made up of things we were talking about in '01-'03.

I'm mercifully retired now. Good luck and stay safe out there folks.

I've been cooking in cast iron for years, but I just moved to a place that has a fire pit in the yard and I want to make a pot of beans in my Dutch oven, slung from a tripod.

Have any of you done this? What can I expect for a cook time? I'm making it for a big family meal and don't want to have a key side dish turn into a mess.

I'm no expert on either of the above and won't knock anybody for their opinions on the matter. I also wish I had jumped on the TSP bandwagon when I was a young airman, but here I am almost 30 years later, collecting one pension and working towards another.

My question is this: is one truly better than the other, or are they meant to compliment each other?

I only ask this because I've never really hung on to money. I have a modest emergency reserve, but that's about it. Some crazy life/medical event aside, my plan has been to fully retire with a military pension, GS pension, VA disability, Social Security, and TSP for the cherry on top.

Five passive streams of income that total over six figures, just for waking up in the morning. Am I an idiot for not doing more with my money, or is that theoretically enough to live comfortably?