It’s New Year’s Eve, less than three hours before the end of 2021 as I type this (was all excited about watching Michigan in the late NCAA football playoff game tonight, but that has turned into a bust, sorry Andrew). I was going to summarize the first year in this post, but that will wait Continue reading
Retirement
#27 – “My Cup Runneth Over….”
I’m not sure how this post is going to come across (Of course there’s a good chance it won’t be read for a couple of months or years). It’s intended to cover many of our thoughts and preparations while transitioning to the retired life. The “Cup Runneth Over” reference is of course Biblical, coming from Continue reading
#26 – More of the Same
OK, this first subject is not “More of the Same”- quite the opposite in fact. As a lifelong Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves fan, my emotions have been jerked in all directions for the past six months, finally with a happy ending. They are in the World Series this year. We really haven’t reached the end just yet, Continue reading
#25 – Reading
Wow, post #25. Like many of you, I read to my children when they were young (perhaps as much for myself as for them). For our youngest, our son, I read to him until he was sixteen years old, and only stopped then because he was staying up later than I was doing his homework. Continue reading
#24 – A Lot of Moving Parts to This Retiring
So we’re three weeks closer to retirement, three weeks closer to the new home being completed (fingers crossed), three weeks closer to moving, etc. Right now they’re all three on schedule to happen at the same time…what could go wrong? I held a meeting last week exploring some part time work options, and met earlier Continue reading
#23 – It’s Time to Retire
First time to get to the blog in a couple of weeks, lots of news to share. First things first: put my retirement package two weeks ago. Retirement date is going to be Dec 31 this year, so now it’s barely 3.5 months to retirement. The plan was to work remotely for a year after Continue reading
#22 – A Little About Medicare
Today’s first comment is a metric: I think the last comment posted from someone besides me for this blog was about two months ago, if I don’t count the couple of vendors wanting to show me just how much money I can make blogging if I sign up for their service (they’re talking to the Continue reading
#21 – The Rest of the Year
Well how about that! Finally learned how to post a picture. Posts might start getting more interesting. This is the retirement home under construction back in early July. We’re now about 50% done. Was a busy week for the blog, not so much on volume of visits, but rather in quality. First, one of my Continue reading
#20 – Catching Up
Wow, it took some time to get to post #20, something like a gap of five weeks. No excuses. In that time there’s been a couple of trips to see my 90-year-old parents, a visit to the retirement home under construction, a week visit here by our graduate student son, a lot of work projects….and Continue reading
#19 – RMD. What is That?
A blessed July 4th to you all! I let another three weeks go by without a new post, drat. I have excuses. Two weekends ago we were driving down to TN to check out progress on the retirement home (roof was about to go on, great progress). Last weekend I flew to Detroit and spent Continue reading