A Blog of Retirement and Related Thoughts
Do you answer your phone every time it rings? Or do you consider all the various options at your disposal within microseconds of noticing that someone unknown to you is calling? Do you pick up? Let it go to voice mail? Just ignore it? I have to admit I hit the decline button on my …
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I'm giving up the facade. No longer am I going to worry about if I'm viewed as a generous or giving person; my true inner self is hereby released. Starting now I am following a righteous path to the genetic predisposition I've determinedly refrained from acknowledging my entire adult life. I'm a cheapskate. What brought …
The tears were flowing, baby. Did you notice? Why, just in the last couple of days they were on full display in the confines of an august hearing room of the United States Senate. It was dramatic to watch. In fact, what made it somewhat fascinating to me was that these tears came solely from …
"Oh, God. Not another of these posts from him." "Yeah, 'fraid so." "Sneak away for a beer?" " <expletive deleted> yeah! I'm outta here..." My apologies ahead of time to those who come here solely for the inanity and preposterous-laden content; I do promise a return to absurd ramblings soon. But unfortunately bylaw #1.7(a)(4-3) of this blog's …
So how's by you? All good on the home front? Or more succinctly, is your home still intact and sitting on roughly the same patch of land it was just a few months ago? I certainly hope so. Since we last interacted, Mother Nature has unleashed her fury all over the globe with boiling hot temperatures, …
The home office has finally noticed the large amount of unread books in my possession. Management has therefore ordered a cessation to all blog operations for the rest of the summer in order to get the backlog lowered. What am I currently reading? Mark Mills, Amagansett (2004 G.P. Putnam). Ten years after buying it in …
"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city." -George Burns There's a bit of frenzied summer travel planning happening in these here parts. For the last couple of weeks each of us have been on travel sites making bookings for air travel, hotel rooms, and airport shuttle services. Except for coordinating …
"Tonight's the night when I go to all the parties down my street. I wash my hair and I kid myself I look real smooth" ¹ When my dad reached his mid-eighties, he remarked one day about what a shock it was to look in the mirror and see this old man staring back at him. I …
Just when I thought I was cool and hangin' with the hipsters for once, they went ahead and changed the rules on me. Again. I do try to stay up with trends and follow the rules which experts say will keep me safe: I'm careful about not connecting to suspicious-looking WiFi, we change the kitchen …
