BS: Officially retired

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: olddude
Date: 15 Jan 16 - 08:51 PM

Lol that sums it up

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: Midchuck
Date: 15 Jan 16 - 08:35 PM

I retired in '09. I sent email to a number of friends, announcing retirement. One "friend" replied: "A retired lawyer! That's the second best kind!"

My neighbor, also retired, was asked who he liked it. He just said "Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Sunday."

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: fat B****rd
Date: 15 Jan 16 - 01:36 PM

And remember, Dan, as Pete Townshend said to The Rolling Stones "Please, lads, make sure you grow old disgracefully"
Charlie

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: olddude
Date: 15 Jan 16 - 10:06 AM

Amen my brother, I have lots to do but this week was just enjoying a sit since I never got to do that

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 15 Jan 16 - 09:59 AM

If it feels good, Dan, do it - or not!
You don't sound the kind of guy who will sit on his arse for the rest of his life, I'm pretty sure you'll get busy but, if a rest feels good for a while, go for it!
I keep busy, but only as busy as I want to be.

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: olddude
Date: 15 Jan 16 - 09:29 AM

Ebbie, yes but it's only been a couple days so I am enjoying this right now my friend

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: gnu
Date: 15 Jan 16 - 06:59 AM

Congrats to the Bugsy's!

Dan... I hope you took sufficient rest between watches.

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 15 Jan 16 - 03:24 AM

Good persons, Mr & Mrs Bugsy!
Now you'll have more time free to spend back in The Old Country - bring instruments next time! 👍😎🎼🎶

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: ragdall
Date: 15 Jan 16 - 02:37 AM

Congratulations Bugsy and Mrs Bugsy. I hope that you enjoy one another's company.

Dan, it sounds as if you have experts willing to train you, you lucky dog.


rags

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: Ebbie
Date: 15 Jan 16 - 01:07 AM

Sorry, Dan- but that's going to get old pretty fast. Get excited about something- and don't wait until summer!

I'm pretty busy most days but only for about 2 or three hours a day. In fact, only Saturdays are totally non-scheduled. That lets me feel productive while having *lots* of time off.

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: olddude
Date: 15 Jan 16 - 12:02 AM

Amen bugsy... Amen... Today was very constructive. I napped on the couch with my dogs. They are teaching me how to sleep 18 hours. Then I wound up several watches.. Oh yes exhausted :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: Bugsy
Date: 14 Jan 16 - 08:51 PM

ME TOO!!
Mrs Bugsy and I handed our notice in on Wednesday and finish Next Tuesday!

Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we're Free at last!

Cheers

Bugsy

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: ragdall
Date: 14 Jan 16 - 07:37 AM

Congratulations, Dan!
Make the least of your days and enjoy doing it.

rags

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 14 Jan 16 - 06:03 AM

Philistine! 😜😄

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 14 Jan 16 - 04:24 AM

.......and watching cricket ......


... and tennis.

There's a down side to everything.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: GUEST,Musket
Date: 14 Jan 16 - 03:17 AM

Oh heck. On this, I'm with Michael, not BWM.

Mind you,

a) I only watch it for the grunting..

b) I'm the worlds leading expert for two weeks then ignore tennis for the next 50 weeks, like most tennis fans in The UK.

I don't have a say in this thread though, having given up retirement for the blessed rat race. I missed interfering if truth be known.

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: MMario
Date: 14 Jan 16 - 02:46 AM

252 days to go - not that I'm counting...

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: Fossil
Date: 14 Jan 16 - 01:57 AM

I am a registered pharmacist here in New Zealand. This year, at the age of 72, I have decided that when my license to kill runs out, in March 2016, I am not going to renew it.

Freedom!!!

I intend to find other stuff to do. I still have my yacht, so can sail the Pacific Ocean, the Cook Strait and the Tasman Sea, which I intend to do before it all gets too much.

I *will* learn all the chords to "You Got a Friend" and play it all through at least once without looking at the chart.

I will try other things, too. Not bunjy jumping (I flew hang gliders for many years and regard it as a waste of time). Kite surfing, maybe. Or just having fun. Tramping the trails. Cruising - the Missus will like that! Or whatever.

Have fun, OldDude! I'm right behind ya!

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: gnu
Date: 13 Jan 16 - 10:56 PM

The weed be good ONLY if it really is medical weed, Dan. Beware of the snake oil salesmen. Three docs told me it would be good for me but NOT under the Health Canada "rules" as they exist. So, I suffer but I agree with my docs... the way it works now is just not right... big money talks even when people like me and FAR worse off suffer. I guess I'll just have to wait and hope on accounta I ain't takin the shit the big drug companies are pushin now.

Dog damn the pusher.

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: olddude
Date: 13 Jan 16 - 10:51 PM

Perfect Amos great advice

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: Amos
Date: 13 Jan 16 - 10:32 PM

Welcome to the growing club of baby boomers on the prowl, Dan!   Whatever star-high plans you make, don't fret about whether you are dutiful about fulfilling them. My mantra has been "Why not? I have the day off!"/


A

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: olddude
Date: 13 Jan 16 - 06:56 PM

No moonshining, taking up making a still. I just saw that I qualify for new Yorks medical weed.. Retirement is getting better and better I think
Now when will it be implemented, I will be there

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: GUEST,#
Date: 13 Jan 16 - 06:01 PM

True, gnu. Eau de toilette is just beer after an hour. Or in other words,
Eau de toilette est juste de la bière après une heure. For everything else there's Google.

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: gnu
Date: 13 Jan 16 - 05:50 PM

Ahhh, indeed #, but it's the taste of the good life if it's cooked right.

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: GUEST,#
Date: 13 Jan 16 - 05:30 PM

"But, chacun a son gout as they say at Roland Garros (and apologies for the missing acute and circumflex - HTML defeats me!)."

HTML defeats me too. But for everything else there's Google.

Chacun à son goût   :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: gnu
Date: 13 Jan 16 - 05:19 PM

"Can't do with the interminable baseline rallies and the grunting and screaming."

That's what she said.

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 13 Jan 16 - 03:53 PM

Not much of a tennis man, Michael, not since the arrival of plastic racquets. Can't do with the interminable baseline rallies and the grunting and screaming.

But, chacun a son gout as they say at Roland Garros (and apologies for the missing acute and circumflex - HTML defeats me!).

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: GUEST,#
Date: 13 Jan 16 - 02:58 PM

Congratulations, Dan.

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 13 Jan 16 - 02:24 PM

... and tennis. In my student days, 1952-55, I used to watch Wimbledon pretty well right thru in the Long Vacation: something I missed grievously when I had to work & couldn't get to the telly while Wimbers was on. Being able to watch as much of Grand Slam, and other, tennis tournaments as I want once again has been one of the blessings of retirement.

≈M≈

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 13 Jan 16 - 02:09 PM

.......and watching cricket on the telly - forgot to mention the cricket (Test Match against South Africa starting tomorrow - wooooooo-hoo!). 😎

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: olddude
Date: 13 Jan 16 - 01:42 PM

In America we have an excellent retirement program, you pay into ssi your whole life and the government keeps it :)

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: Ed T
Date: 13 Jan 16 - 01:18 PM

Last week, when making a car maintainance appointment, I understood it to be a day earlier then it was. No, not memory issues. Just a side benefit of retirement- increased freedom from the clock.

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 13 Jan 16 - 08:02 AM

Naaawww, it's one long paid holiday, Terry!

The DWP and my private pension provider keep thrusting money into my hot, sweaty hand for spending my days walking my dog, playing my guitars and mandolin (still not as well as I'd like), drinking tea, eating scones, occasionally flicking a duster around and pushing the Dyson up and down, sitting in Costa Coffee with a nice skinny latte watching the world go by, and loads of other stuff. 😎

Best job I've ever had, by a lot!👍

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: Leadfingers
Date: 12 Jan 16 - 09:32 PM

Only downside is no more paid holidays

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: olddude
Date: 12 Jan 16 - 04:56 PM

Sandra only get away with it cause my Mrs is away for a couple days or I would have to clean or something Lol

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 12 Jan 16 - 04:54 PM

what a life!

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: olddude
Date: 12 Jan 16 - 04:16 PM

And watching non stop river monsters, now for spring and my giant musky fish awaits

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: olddude
Date: 12 Jan 16 - 04:15 PM

Today I got off the couch, and made a sandwich... Ahh yes sweet victory

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: gnu
Date: 12 Jan 16 - 03:12 PM

Ebbie... love it!

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: Ed T
Date: 12 Jan 16 - 01:56 PM

Good wishes to you. I did it almost two years ago, and never look back.
I was offered contracts from my former employer, and others, But, I never even considered giving up the retirement freedom that I worked for for 36, plus, years.

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: olddude
Date: 12 Jan 16 - 01:50 PM

Good idea Ebbie

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: Ebbie
Date: 12 Jan 16 - 12:58 PM

I remember reading about one guy's plans for retirement. He said that for the first three months "I'm going to just sit in my rocker on the porch. Then after that, I'll rock."

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: olddude
Date: 12 Jan 16 - 10:40 AM

Grand baby business for sure :-) fire trucks and barbie dolls for this guy. I have to find another Hobby that requires no thinking. Spent to many
yyears with math. Maybe fixing watches with my amish friend but now it's nothing for as long as I can. Oh yes

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: gnu
Date: 12 Jan 16 - 10:36 AM

Ice fishing is underway here and on salt water bays the smelts are fast and furious from about 3PM on... nice size too. Not your kettle of fish though, I suppose.

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 12 Jan 16 - 10:13 AM

I can't decide if I'm retired or just unemployed... whatever it is, I started doing it 3 years ago now, and haven't had a chest pain or a major suicidal depression since.

House doesn't look any neater, there are even more things to do on my 'to do' pile, but I sure as hell don't miss the commute or the ingratitude, the bullying or being taken advantage of.

Enjoy your days, make more memories and pass them on to the grandbabies.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Jan 16 - 08:53 AM

Change the name of your bathroom to "Jim." Then you can say you went to the Jim first thing in the morning.

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: gnu
Date: 12 Jan 16 - 06:01 AM

Perhaps start by celebrating with a Steelers game?

ENJOY!

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: GUEST,MikeL2
Date: 12 Jan 16 - 05:51 AM

Hi Dan

Enjoy your retirement. You sure as hell deserved it.

I have been retired over 20 years now, and I haven't once missed my work.

Like Bill said, how the hell did I ever find time to work.

Regards

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: gillymor
Date: 12 Jan 16 - 03:12 AM

Save a few fish for the rest of us, Dan.

Subject: RE: BS: Officially retired
From: Ebbie
Date: 12 Jan 16 - 02:49 AM

The only downside, Dan, is that once you retire you never get a day off. Enjoy!