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The first day of the rest of my life

dntsdad said:
So fucking true.

11 days in Oregon and roughly 2000 miles all around it and I have to say, those people know how to pass and then get over. Never seen anything like it.

The center lane of the passing lane for essentially both sides???? Fucking brilliant!

Here? You get some dumbfuck doing 63 for 30 miles in the "fast lane". Every. Fucking. Day.
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Both lanes open and some CA plate is doing 54 in a 65 where everybody else is doing 80. Crowd em enough an they pull into the slow lane but right back out soon as you go by.:homer:

Do they teach yall to do that?
 
The fucking first day of retirement is really strange..... You don't have to drive to work...You still wake up early...Now what do you do????
First month you do stupid shit.... I was going to Atlantic City and blowing loads of cash... Fucking hookers were crawling all over me... Didn't need to stoop to that level
After a couple of weeks of being stupid, you settle down and forge a healthy routine. Big thing is to do things that are challenging and fun. :smokin::smokin::smokin:
 
Congrats. :beer: hope you manage to fill those days with all the things you want to do, even if that just means watching the world go by sometimes.
 
billdacat said:
The fucking first day of retirement is really strange..... You don't have to drive to work...You still wake up early...Now what do you do????
First month you do stupid shit.... I was going to Atlantic City and blowing loads of cash... Fucking hookers were crawling all over me... Didn't need to stoop to that level
After a couple of weeks of being stupid, you settle down and forge a healthy routine. Big thing is to do things that are challenging and fun. :smokin::smokin::smokin:
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I've been off on shoulder surgery for over a year, My mother had a stroke and we've been dealing wit moving her selling off her Az property and generally trying to sort her affairs, I've less than a second of free time in the last year.

early mornings, Dr appointments, phone calls, and general BS,

I would kill for free time, hoping we stabilize things and start traveling
 
jptbay said:
Thrilled for you. Congratulations!

Seems like a fantasy for me still, but I'm trying hard to prepare. Still 10+ years away.
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As a young kid I hired and showed up, days went by then years, next thing I know guys I know are retiring, and suddenly I'm one of the senior guys, young guys are coming to me asking advice, next thing I know I'm laying down the groundwork for my retirement, and poof. 40 years happens and I'm one of the old guys.:homer::homer:
 
Stingray said:
I've been off on shoulder surgery for over a year, My mother had a stroke and we've been dealing wit moving her selling off her Az property and generally trying to sort her affairs, I've less than a second of free time in the last year.

early mornings, Dr appointments, phone calls, and general BS,

I would kill for free time, hoping we stabilize things and start traveling
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Dang it... I was in your shoes when I moved to Utah... Mother was a fucking tool. Her health issues were a constant drag. My sister would come out and help a couple of times a year. Mother passed last year and huge burden was lifted off my sholders. I am now taking care of my 91 y/o dad. He is an an easy keeper; but is having some personel hygine issues.
In reality I stepped into being a care giver. I have make an effort to make time for just myself and GF.

Hang in there brother...PM if you need to talk. :smokin::smokin::smokin::smokin:
 
Stingray said:
Today I have joined the ranks of the retired.

40 years with one company, and a circus of crap jobs in my youth. To be fair I thought this would be another job in a string of jobs till the next one came along..
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Congrats man!
hoping I can in 2-3 years if things work out
 
billdacat said:
Dang it... I was in your shoes when I moved to Utah... Mother was a fucking tool. Her health issues were a constant drag. My sister would come out and help a couple of times a year. Mother passed last year and huge burden was lifted off my sholders. I am now taking care of my 91 y/o dad. He is an an easy keeper; but is having some personel hygine issues.
In reality I stepped into being a care giver. I have make an effort to make time for just myself and GF.

Hang in there brother...PM if you need to talk. :smokin::smokin::smokin::smokin:
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Mom is 81 and had been living alone fully self sufficient in Topock Az. we call and keep close tabs because she is 81,
We drive out and bring her into Ca for 2023 Christmas, all is well, after Christmas we drive her back to Az with a slight cold. We stay a couple days and she declines, so we take her to urgent care and sit for 6 hrs, sometime while I sat with her she had some kind of episode and basically became a shell of herself, three weeks in an Az hospital and we made arrangements to move her to assisted living in Ca.
my two brothers and I have been tag teaming managing her health, working on selling her Az property, and keeping bills paid.

Mom ended up also having a UTI that causes dementia in elderly females she has a slums score of 7 for anyone that knows.

I had rotator cuff surgery last sept. before all this with mom, and have been off work, ( it's been a slight benefit) so I've been dealing with claims, rehab, Dr's appts, juggling that with mom and my brothers. Surgery was not ideal, but has helped with time, even though I have been less than mobile.

But everything is getting better, and we are moving in the right direction.

Sorry for the long ass book, but tonight seemed like the time to spill the beans:lmao::lmao:

Thanks for the offer I'll defiantly keep it in mind. But I think we are over the hump.
 
I'm way busier on my R&Rs than at work... and it's usually busy at work.
Just only do 84-90hrs a week at work, and home is more like 120 between another job, my business and projects.
Granted if I feel like sleeping to 0800 I can or if I hit the point where I'm not thinking straight anymore I can go sleep.

Much prefer work like 0900-2300 vs 0600 to 1800, never been much of a morning person.

Still another 30-35 years till I retire,(75) if my body holds up that long.
 
Congrats. You will love it. I retired in January. Our plans were to snow ski 2-3 days a week but my dad fell two weeks later and over the next 3 months declined and then passed in April. ER, rehab, assisted living, then hospice was draining. Then it was on to dealing with his affairs and house. Finally it's about behind us. I don't know how I could have dealt with it if I was still working.

For about the last 3 weeks I've finally felt like I am retired. It's a great feeling waking up and saying "what should we do today?" Was up north (we say that in Michigan) last week for 6 days and leaving again today for another 5 or 6 days.

This whole experience has been a great reminder that you never know what tomorrow will bring and it's important to get out there and live life!

(and if I don't reply to this thread again for a few days, it's because I'll be off grid enjoying retirement!:flipoff2::cool2:)
 
Stingray said:
Today I have joined the ranks of the retired.

40 years with one company, and a circus of crap jobs in my youth. To be fair I thought this would be another job in a string of jobs till the next one came along..
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Congrats. :smokin: I've been retired for a while now and enjoying it. I give you about 3 months before you have to look at a calendar to see what day of the week it is. :laughing:
 
Idle hands are expensive hands- me to my financial planner when he asked if I thought about early retirement….

Enjoy!
 
Stingray said:
As a young kid I hired and showed up, days went by then years, next thing I know guys I know are retiring, and suddenly I'm one of the senior guys, young guys are coming to me asking advice, next thing I know I'm laying down the groundwork for my retirement, and poof. 40 years happens and I'm one of the old guys.:homer::homer:
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:laughing::laughing::laughing::laughing::laughing:

Damn, does that ever sound familiar. I got up one morning and looked in the mirror and realized I was old. WhenTF did that happen? :laughing:
 
Congratulations!

Yesterday I had an eerie reminder how working one's life away is not a life at all. We received a heavy hearted company email informing us that a fellow that worked here for close to 35 years and retired just 2 years ago died of a heart attack at age 63. It made me feel as if I'm in a twilight zone working MY life away trying to make it to retirement age while I lost both parents not long after THEY retired.

Meanwhile the guy in the office next to me turns 70 this year and has "0" hobbies, "0" life, a beautiful wife at home and grown kids that he constantly neglects while coming to work on weekends just to cruise the internet and sip coffee and still has both parents living that even still drive to this day in their late 90's.:homer:
 
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