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Cake day: March 3rd, 2024

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  • I’m afraid this is going to get a lot worse before it gets better. Any time someone passes and leaves an estate, there’s a strong opportunity for beneficiaries and interested parties to get into some serious conflicts. Your grandmother hasn’t passed, and there’s already conflict starting.

    If your grandmother does not want to (or “isn’t allowed to”) walk away from the house and its mortgage (while living literally rent free until the foreclosure process goes through), you are going to need to protect yourself. You should start planning that now. Speak to an estate attorney now, and figure out what you need to do to make sure that you personally are able to reject being a beneficiary of the house, hopefully without also having to turn down beneficiary status on anything else. Maybe there’s a way that you can have your “share” of the property divided equally among the other beneficiaries as a gift?

    No matter what happens, you’re going to have to personally “let go” of some proceeds of the estate, and you’ll need to do it without holding a grudge against your siblings.










  • There’s been some very minimal translation of the few that remain, having to do with numbers and counting. They most definitely contain information. They mean something.

    This is also making me think - these words that I am typing now, are they not also mnemonic devices? The written words are not the spoken words, and neither of those are the concepts that we understand the words and phrases to represent. Words are only models of ideas, and models are by definition not as accurate as what they intend to model. Who are we to say that a series of marks on a clay tablet, or paper, or a computer screen are more accurate models of ideas than intricate series of knots in strings?