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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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I never get the fancy carpet on the stage.
S'cuse me but, isn't it Wednesday? ....or late for rising yesterday?
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Day of Week is arbitrary when you're retired! It feels like a Wednesday.
I meant to write 'innit Thursday?'
You are right. It does not matter what day it is anymore. Stores are open (if you still go to them) everyday for the most part.
Maybe an Irish Headache or two?
Today is Thursday-Saturday. Tomorrow is Friday-Saturday. I just have to remember to set the trash bins out on Thursday-Saturday and school. The other XXX-Saturday days aren't important.
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Finally carved out time to watch this. Marvelous stuff! Thanks for that.
I can't quite say I miss air travel, but I do (and will always) admire the skills of good piloting.
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One thing unclear to me sometimes in retirement is my continued habit of dressing daily as if to be "Casual Fridays" professionally presentable. That's an art in of itself. But no matter. That I still dress as if I were to see actual people tells me a great deal about my own expectations of reality 
I have never gone along with the semi-popular notion that one should work at home dressed as if one is in the office anyway. My own work ethic and personal standard of quality determine my output, not the cut & material of my pants. No one has ever come back to me on a project and said, "I dunno, Win, it seems like you may have been dressed a little too comfortably on this one."
Ridiculous.
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All my corporate clothing went to charity the day I hung up my pica pole. Someone or multiple someones scored some very expensive attire on the cheap. And I swore I'd never be seen in a suit again.
Someone or multiple someones scored some very expensive attire on the cheap. And I swore I'd never be seen in a suit again.
I refuse to work anywhere or even attend a meeting that required me to wear a suit. My brain has to be comfortable for it to work. I have made other people (bankers) take their jackets and ties off.
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Our corporate policies meant we were sometimes dressed better than our clients. That created its own problems that were eventually solved, sort of. Sort of, because the rules weren't changed. A few of us got exemptions, depending on the job.
A colleague of mine was written up because her supervisor claimed her blouse was inappropriate. That bosses hold such punitive power is a problem in itself. That employer of mine was known to be crawling with military brass types (pardon me) and
I got a phone call — but not a line in my permanent record — after I faxed my expense report with a cover sheet composed in a typeface called "Ransom"
A colleague of mine was written up because her supervisor claimed her blouse was inappropriate. That bosses hold such punitive power is a problem in itself. That employer of mine was known to be crawling with military brass types (pardon me) and
I got a phone call — but not a line in my permanent record — after I faxed my expense report with a cover sheet composed in a typeface called "Ransom"
One thing unclear to me sometimes in retirement is my continued habit of dressing daily as if to be "Casual Fridays" professionally presentable. That's an art in of itself. But no matter. That I still dress as if I were to see actual people tells me a great deal about my own expectations of reality
Still "dressing for success" each day, even casual friday-like, is the mark of the still newly retired. In my case dressing at all is merely a concession to marital tranquility. And thermal comfort in winter. Well, OK, all that and public decency when I gots to go somewhere. Mrs. Dog retired long before me but is only occasionally getting into the spirit of it in recent years by cooking and sewing all day in her pajamas once in a while, for which she expresses shame. I console her with entreaties to "living happily ever after", in our "golden years", and all that. However, when I mention "sans vêtements" I can tell I've gone too far. But, I'm wearing her down!
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- Oct 22, 2015
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Still "dressing for success" each day, even casual friday-like, is the mark of the still newly retired. In my case dressing at all is merely a concession to marital tranquility. And thermal comfort in winter. Well, OK, all that and public decency when I gots to go somewhere. Mrs. Dog retired long before me but is only occasionally getting into the spirit of it in recent years by cooking and sewing all day in her pajamas once in a while, for which she expresses shame. I console her with entreaties to "living happily ever after", in our "golden years", and all that. However, when I mention "sans vêtements" I can tell I've gone too far. But, I'm wearing her down!
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It's in this I take after my parents ... for me, at it so long I don't really know to spend my days like Peg Bundy
... lot of old beliefs to shake off but I do enjoy taking care in my appearance
hmmm...if you're wearing her down, does she still have her flight feathers?I'm wearing her down!
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I can't be seen in anything that I wore 1/2 year ago...unfortunately. Our standard mode of dress in the last band was tuxes...it was just easier than to let the individual express themselves only for management to object. We were doing mostly high-end weddings after all.All my corporate clothing went to charity the day I hung up my pica pole.
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