The dog gets blamed for a lot of things, but when there's grass in there you know it truly was the dog.
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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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The dog gets blamed for a lot of things, but when there's grass in there you know it truly was the dog.
Shaq comes over to refill it.
Saw that on TV. Looks interesting.
Another problem with inkjet is bleeding ink when the page gets wet. It would be nice if they had waterproof inks that work well. When I receive a package, I spritz the box with alcohol. Normally the label printing fades in a heartbeat. Try this with an amazon label for instance and you'll see what I mean.
That costs extra.
'Specially if ya hafta feed him.
One of my good work friends retired last Wednesday. Her husband isn't well and she had an intuition that she should be with him more. Although Carey is a healthy person none of us at our age know how long we'll be here. I'm starting to think of The Big R next April/May 2022. Along with taking Carey somewhere very nice and enjoyable for a vacation I am in the process of evaluating the six basses I own. Half of them are almost economy basses but very well built. I might donate 3 and/or sell 2 then buy one last new one.
In the back of my mind I've already begun planning for a retirement. I've been monitoring our expenses more closely and working on clearing our small place of excess stuff we don't use. I'm going to do a little bit every day or so. I don't want to retire (if I actually do next year) and spend my time cleaning. I've realized we've bought a lot of stuff we don't use. Some stuff going to donation and some to sell. It's odd--I'm 69 and probably the oldest person at my job. I feel healthy enough to keep working but my spirit is leading me to leave while I'm in top form on my job. I'm a real tech geek at heart and I'll miss all the new toys I get to use/set up at work. I'm quite spoiled that way. But I have plenty of plans for retirement. I want to record and get back into webdesign. Websites aren't going away anytime soon in the near future. Anyway, all the best plans laid down by mice and men......
In the back of my mind I've already begun planning for a retirement. I've been monitoring our expenses more closely and working on clearing our small place of excess stuff we don't use. I'm going to do a little bit every day or so. I don't want to retire (if I actually do next year) and spend my time cleaning. I've realized we've bought a lot of stuff we don't use. Some stuff going to donation and some to sell. It's odd--I'm 69 and probably the oldest person at my job. I feel healthy enough to keep working but my spirit is leading me to leave while I'm in top form on my job. I'm a real tech geek at heart and I'll miss all the new toys I get to use/set up at work. I'm quite spoiled that way. But I have plenty of plans for retirement. I want to record and get back into webdesign. Websites aren't going away anytime soon in the near future. Anyway, all the best plans laid down by mice and men......
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Hey, it's a sign of an intelligent mind. Leaving this here for all of us sharp old farts...
Better if you can get a retirement package. More difficult for management to justify at your age.
Max Klinger tried all sorts of things to get out of the army. Today that wouldn't work one bit at most companies.
Klinger was a funny, recurring character, but in '51-'52, they woulda 'section 8-ed' him. Or he mighta been the victim of 'friendly fire'. Unless, of course, they pulled a "Catch 22" on him.
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Catch-22 Klinger, exactly.
And yeah, I'd say decent chance Klinger would have been fragged long before he was section 8'd. And I was never even in the army. Just that I know that much about guys.
And yeah, I'd say decent chance Klinger would have been fragged long before he was section 8'd. And I was never even in the army. Just that I know that much about guys.
In that time period, he would have been thought of as "funny", not funny.
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Current beverage of choice: 90 proof coconut rum and diet ginger ale. Gots to watch the calories, ya know.
When Mrs. 12BitSlab and I bought our current place, it could classified as "man shopping". She found our current place 1-day before it was advertised on the web. She made an appointment with the selling agent and we showed up.
After 1/2 hour of viewing the prospective property, I asked her if she wanted to buy the home/condo that we were looking at. She said., "Yes!" I asked her how much she wanted the place and she said, "I really, really want this place."
I talked to the agent and told her that we wanted the place and that we were offering list price and would pay cash for it - that is, no financing. Long story short, we bought it.
We've been here a couple days more than 10 months. If we had to do it again, we would. I am so glad to be away from the completely dysfunctional government of the City of Cincinnati as well as Hamilton County.
The 2 things I like best about my place: I inherited it from my folks, free and clear; and NO HOA!!
I've known a number of people who retired with the thought that their days would be filled by playing golf. Most of them - almost without exception- got bored after two weeks of golf.
I've found that in order to be happy, one needs not only a hobby, but a goal as well. There is no point in doing anything unless there is a goal that drives one's activities.
After retiring, I settled on a goal of learning enough about playing jazz bass such that local jazz guys would be calling me. Note that if I reach my goal, I won't be able to play because of health issues. If I never play another song in public or not, it doesn't matter since my goal is to learn - not to receive public accolades.
Good luck on navigating retirement.
Thank you for your kind words. I'm still debating the actual year but next year keeps coming up for me. I have a stigma that once a person retires, they get treated different than those that are "gainfully employed." I've heard the same thing from friends who already retired that they were ready to do something two weeks after retirement. I'm healthy for my age, no health issues and still have plenty of stamina. I dunno, we'll see what happens, how I feel the end of this year. Some days it does seem to take me longer to get motivated to the shower and I'm late more often to work. Luckily with this pandemic I'm the only one that comes in mornings on the wing where I work...
The picture above your post, were it real, says more about the efficiency of the postal service at the time, than anything else.
Antebellum fashion delivered to a forward combat zone? Probably came with petticoats.
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There's more to life than work. In My Experience ™ retirement / joblessness comes hard on mens because mens draw personal identity and social worth from work. It's can be a crisis for some when that's taken away.
Oh hey guys Happy Easter and all whut.
Oh hey guys Happy Easter and all whut.
Current beverage of choice: 90 proof coconut rum and diet ginger ale. Gots to watch the calories, ya know.
It's not that bad calorie wise, 150 per shot. There's very little coconut oil in it which is fattening. The alcohol accounts for 75% of the calories, the sugars are the remaining 25%. Your'll burn off those 140 calories if you walk for an hour or so round trip to the liquor store. Remember, old people burn calories slower.
Calories in Captain Morrighan Parrot Bay 90 Proof Coconut Rum (45% alc.) | CalorieKing
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When I retired I played golf at least three times a week for two years, but I increasingly felt like something was missing. I realized that I was only doing things for myself, not for someone else, and my whole working life, in one fashion or another, involved serving others, and that's where I got my satisfaction. So I went back to visiting heart surgery patients as part of the Mended Hearts program, which I had done for several years in the 90s. That scratched the itch, and I'm itching to get back to it, because we haven't been able to for over a year. Mrs. Tango makes heart-shaped cough pillows for the program, and that gives her a lot of joy. I'm also part of an advisory council for a big cardiac center at another hospital, and we review things the hospital does or wants to do with an eye to making them better at it. That, plus being a director of an endowment fund that gives grants to programs that help the less fortunate among us. All of that stuff makes me feel like I'm doing something for other people, that I'm not just sucking up oxygen and giving nothing in return.
Will, you also now have a job that involves serving others. You take care of your users. I'm betting that something that allows you to continue serving other people will do the trick, because I think that's the part you'll miss most when you retire. Several of the guys I play golf with are part of service groups of one sort or another, like Meals on Wheels, and that's what keeps them going.
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