Retired

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Fri Mar 29, 2019 10:14 pm

xouper · Post by **xouper** » Fri Mar 29, 2019 10:38 pm

Witness wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2019 10:14 pm

Ditto.

Now you'll have more time to do the really important stuff, like posting more often on this forum.

shemp · Post by **shemp** » Sat Mar 30, 2019 1:56 am

Congrats! Enjoy your gradual and inexorable slide into the jaws of death!

Bruce · Post by **Bruce** » Sat Mar 30, 2019 2:33 am

My dream is to die at work. Make them clean up MY shit for once.

sparks · Post by **sparks** » Sat Mar 30, 2019 4:30 am

Congrats AA.

ed · Post by ed » Sat Mar 30, 2019 10:24 am

Abdul Alhazred wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2019 10:10 pm As of today.

Plans include a trip to New York later this month, and shooting for a reasonably "intellectual" part time job in the fall.

Awwwwww ... unemployed.

Good for you.

Boss Kean · Post by **Boss Kean** » Sat Mar 30, 2019 11:49 am

Get back to work!

Grammatron · Post by **Grammatron** » Sat Mar 30, 2019 7:07 pm

Quitter

ed · Post by ed » Sat Mar 30, 2019 7:17 pm

Wait ... does this mean you can organize my b-day festivities next october????

Ive decided that the theme will be "Pompai"

ed · Post by ed » Sat Mar 30, 2019 7:54 pm

Both.

Think ...

Conflagration.

Tough with the swamps but you,ll think of something.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sat Mar 30, 2019 8:51 pm

Abdul Alhazred wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2019 10:10 pmpart time job in the fall.

So not rich enough to join all the insufferable old farts in Florida?

Tsk-tsk, Abdul.

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sun Mar 31, 2019 12:52 am

Abdul Alhazred wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2019 10:10 pm As of today.

Plans include a trip to New York later this month, and shooting for a reasonably "intellectual" part time job in the fall.

Grats on escaping the culture of quick questions, dividing and conquering, key learnings, paths forward, and initiatives to give back to the community.

asthmatic camel · Post by **asthmatic camel** » Sun Mar 31, 2019 6:32 pm

izittrue · Post by **izittrue** » Sun Mar 31, 2019 9:47 pm

I can’t wait to retire but it looks like another 4 years. Argh. Need to pay off the house oh and save a quick 3 million. Hmm maybe 5 years. Ha ha

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Mon Apr 01, 2019 12:59 am

We need a postcard from NY as proof, AA.

shemp · Post by **shemp** » Mon Apr 01, 2019 1:54 am

And chopped liver and tongue on rye from Katz's!

Rob Lister · Post by **Rob Lister** » Mon Apr 01, 2019 1:17 pm

I'll see your Katz's:

and raise you a Route 58:

ed · Post by ed » Mon Apr 01, 2019 1:49 pm

Retired as distinct from not working.

ed · Post by ed » Mon Apr 01, 2019 2:52 pm

Because you weren't really "working", in the commonly accepted sense, right? You were with the government. So this new state of nature if more definitional than practical. That sum it up? Except that your daily activity (as opposed to "work") will not be performed (if that is even a relevant concept in your world) in the old venue.

I think I understand.

ed · Post by ed » Mon Apr 01, 2019 3:32 pm

So "retirement" is a redundancy.

ed · Post by ed » Mon Apr 01, 2019 4:38 pm

Gotta keep moving.

ed · Post by ed » Mon Apr 01, 2019 4:39 pm

I am sorta thinking of chucking it too actually.

Rob Lister · Post by **Rob Lister** » Mon Apr 01, 2019 5:04 pm

Having retired I can tell you all the pitfalls. But I shan't. Schadenfreude.

Giz · Post by **Giz** » Mon Apr 01, 2019 6:51 pm

Abdul Alhazred wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2019 3:12 pm I was a "Fed" so watch it pal.

Mueller, is that you?

shemp · Post by **shemp** » Mon Apr 01, 2019 11:41 pm

Abdul Alhazred wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2019 4:20 pm Of course a Merchant of Death never really retires, right?

A license to kill never expires.

And i don't care what deli it comes from, I want some good NY chopped liver and tongue on rye with a good mustard! I had one 35 years ago in a NY deli (I don't remember the name or location, I was drunk at the time, but it was within a few blocks of Madison Square Garden) with some great potato salad and a huge half-sour pickle, and I've never had a sandwich as good since!

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Tue Apr 02, 2019 12:50 am

Abdul Alhazred wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2019 2:49 am Soon as I finish my speech at the UN.

The UN?!? Your standards are slipping.

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Tue Apr 02, 2019 5:23 pm

Congratulations Abdul. I just got back from vacation last night myself, or I would have commented sooner.

Rob Lister · Post by **Rob Lister** » Tue Apr 02, 2019 7:00 pm

Abdul Alhazred wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2019 3:26 am
IIRC, it was a good place to use the toilet.

It still is.

Giz · Post by **Giz** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 12:59 pm

What, they don’t have WiFi in nyc?

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 3:14 pm

Giz wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 12:59 pm What, they don’t have WiFi in nyc?

Abdul doesn't have a smart phone or tablet, so I hear. Privacy reasons, I think.

If you had an iPhone you could post even when away from home, and it doubles as a camera.

Giz · Post by **Giz** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 6:10 pm

That is... no smartphone?!!

Forget NYC, Abdul should be at Medieval Times (as an exhibit, rather than a guest)

shemp · Post by **shemp** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 11:55 pm

Abdul is a Secret Agent Man. You cannot expect a Secret Agent Man to make himself vulnerable like the rest of us.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Tue Apr 09, 2019 12:14 am

Abdul Alhazred wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 9:35 am Off to NYC, back in about a week.

Have a nice stay, AA!

sparks · Post by **sparks** » Tue Apr 09, 2019 2:32 pm

Bring us back some....
On second thought, don't bring back anything. Not one thing.

shemp · Post by **shemp** » Sat Apr 13, 2019 6:23 pm

Hey, welcome back, it doesn't feel right around here without you.

Now where's my chopped liver and tongue on rye?

Rob Lister · Post by **Rob Lister** » Mon May 13, 2019 7:52 pm

A late word. I just put out resumes. I can not handle being retired anymore. Not even great tv helps. Having to do the cooking, the laundry, the yard, the (too fucking old to be bothering me kids), the vacuuming, the sex ...

...sex that is no longer the dominant sex [only] ed is used to [hourly]. No, it's the submissive sex Put Upon a man that washes the dishes of his wife and scrubs her panties....

So yesterday I hit every contact I had. I'm a year shy of 60 so no sane company would hire me. But I've got over ~hundred recent contacts at 30 different companies and out of 30, 10 may be insane.

I know I'll get some lowballs but I've set a minimum not far from what I was making prior, plus a little;

So, I guess, I've got ten more years in me.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Tue May 14, 2019 3:09 am

You made me laugh, Rob: not for one second did I regret leaving the treadmill! (As I wrote elsewhere, from early on my target in life was already to work the least possible.)

As for cooking, I love it. (Nothing fancy, but always tasty.) It leaves your mind completely free to wander where it pleases while keeping the hands busy. Just have to get some of it back when I'm mincing garlic with an extremely sharp knife…

shuize · Post by **shuize** » Sat Jul 06, 2019 11:50 pm

I’m not retired but my job is not very hard.

Sometimes my girlfriend who does have a harder job (but, in my opinion, not actually as hard as she complains) tries to make me feel guilty.

It never works.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sun Jul 07, 2019 12:14 am