Wednesday, 27 May 2020: More Walks, Some Flowers, and My Granddaughter
Aside from documenting two more of my routes below the cut, I thought you might be interested in early summer in Philadelphia and in my granddaughter's current situation, far away from her Nana in California.
Remember Park Towne Place's tulips?
They were replaced by geraniums:
Very cheerful, aren't they? Our next display will probably be fall chrysanthemums.
Switching topics to my granddaughter, Samantha, she moved earlier this month from San Diego to Oakland, CA, to move in with her girlfriend, Susan. She quit her job with TD-Ameritrade around the end of April and started with TIAA last week. Sam is 27 and fell into working in investments almost accidentally, when she got an offer from Vanguard while she was in her senior year at Temple University. Working in the investment industry was not a life-long dream, but hey! it was a job. She didn't like her one-hour communte to Vanguard's suburban site, so after about nine months, she moved to Janney Montgomery Scott, a smaller East Coast firm. Two years ago, when Sam decided to move to San Diego, before she packed up and went west, she had lined up the job with TD-Ameritrade. Now, in all the current chaos, she is starting her fourth job in investments with TIAA.
Because of COVID-10, Samantha is on-boarding with TIAA from home which, in this industry, may take weeks; she has to learn all about TIAA's products and how to sell them. One step in the on-boarding process is to get a company I.D., in this case a D-I-Y project. Susan trimmed her hair and took the head shot:
Would you trust this woman to tell you how to invest for your retirement? I hope many people do.
Two more walks mapped:
875 steps.
I walked this loop twice today, both times to find out the number of steps involved. The first time the step meter on my phone was turned off...grrr!...so I did it again for a total of 1,750 steps.
247 steps.
Not sure how often I'll need just this one long walkway alongside the Great Lawn, but I walked it so often today that I thought I might well document the steps. FanSee
Remember Park Towne Place's tulips?
They were replaced by geraniums:
Very cheerful, aren't they? Our next display will probably be fall chrysanthemums.
Switching topics to my granddaughter, Samantha, she moved earlier this month from San Diego to Oakland, CA, to move in with her girlfriend, Susan. She quit her job with TD-Ameritrade around the end of April and started with TIAA last week. Sam is 27 and fell into working in investments almost accidentally, when she got an offer from Vanguard while she was in her senior year at Temple University. Working in the investment industry was not a life-long dream, but hey! it was a job. She didn't like her one-hour communte to Vanguard's suburban site, so after about nine months, she moved to Janney Montgomery Scott, a smaller East Coast firm. Two years ago, when Sam decided to move to San Diego, before she packed up and went west, she had lined up the job with TD-Ameritrade. Now, in all the current chaos, she is starting her fourth job in investments with TIAA.
Because of COVID-10, Samantha is on-boarding with TIAA from home which, in this industry, may take weeks; she has to learn all about TIAA's products and how to sell them. One step in the on-boarding process is to get a company I.D., in this case a D-I-Y project. Susan trimmed her hair and took the head shot:
Would you trust this woman to tell you how to invest for your retirement? I hope many people do.
Two more walks mapped:
875 steps.
I walked this loop twice today, both times to find out the number of steps involved. The first time the step meter on my phone was turned off...grrr!...so I did it again for a total of 1,750 steps.
247 steps.
Not sure how often I'll need just this one long walkway alongside the Great Lawn, but I walked it so often today that I thought I might well document the steps. FanSee