u/mandible23

Power just went down off of CR 228. Anyone else? In town?

Hi DGO!

I have a camping weekend planned up in Ouray this weekend… nothing in the backcountry but just cozied up at the KOA. Has anyone camped up there recently? Is it safe to be up there right now with the Gold Mountain Fire happening?

Thx(:

Well as the subject line says, I am 32 turning 33 this year, and I don’t have a retirement fund set up yet. I’m just now starting to get my finances together from some bad financial decisions in my 20s and just never learning financial literacy from my parents or family. I have paid off all my credit card debt, but have student loans. Car is almost paid off. Idk if I’ll ever own a home honestly…

So thinking about retirement is daunting. I work an hourly job. I make okay money ~60k a year, but am on a single income. My employer does not offer any type of retirement benefits so I’m trying to figure out how do I do this on my own?

I have a HYSA, but barely anything in it since I’ve just now paid off debt and am trying to just get an emergency fund under my belt.

I have life insurance, both a term policy and a whole life policy. Idk if I really understand them, but my dad died without life insurance and me and my siblings got screwed and had to pay so much money for his end of life services that I’ve been paying into life insurance since I was 25… now I feel dumb and should have thought about paying into retirement instead??

I want to start a Roth IRA, but idk what that really means or how to start one? How much does it cost to open? I am fine making payments from each check to fund it, but I just don’t even know where to start.

Thanks for reading. I feel behind in my financial life and am really just trying to make some smart choices, even if it’s later than I should have.

Does anyone know of a local courier? Would rather not go through the post. I tried calling the company that used to be Kangaroo, but haven’t heard back. Maybe there is another service ready for some business? (: I would need something that services Durango and surrounding outer areas. thx!

I’ve been having lots of strange dreams lately. Last night I dreamt that I went into my bathroom and I had this urgency that I needed to be cleaning my house. There was stuff everywhere, all over the floors. And when I looked closer in the bathroom, I saw little frogs that’s were dead just laying on their backs. So strange. Later in my dream I tried to start cleaning only to open my cat’s litter box and the entire bottom of it was missing, so I had to go to the store to shop for litter boxes. Idk if that really has to do with anything else, but just weird. The frogs definitely stuck in my mind.. anyone have an interpretation of this? I think it could be stress but idk

any bird watching groups in the dgo?

Does this exist?

I work for a small family-owned company in Colorado, and we are looking to add new dash cams into our fleet of trucks. Owner/Operator of the company has tasked me with finding a dash cam that...

1- does NOT have a driver facing camera. We trust our men, and don't want the invasion of privacy.

2- A cam that could track mileage. Not just mileage in state, but also could track when we cross state lines, and can keep track of mileage per state.

I know this is probably a big ask... but with all the AI being shoved our way, we figure maybe there is some tech we could utilize that would fit our needs. We don't need to monitor our men while they drive, but it would help them to not have to log every driven mile manually. We want helpful tech, not invasive tech (:

Any insight would be helpful. Thank you for reading and offering advice!