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0patience0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭

Day 1 of retirement.
Found out that sleeping in sucks.
My body hated it. Feels like I took punches all night.
How do people do that? :)

In Fumo Pax
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

Wylaff said:
Atmospheric pressure and crap.
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  • dirtdudedirtdude Posts: 5,641 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Sleeping is over rated Tony, get up and go fix something like you've always done.

    A little dirt never hurt
  • ShawnOLShawnOL Posts: 8,284 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Never been to devils tower. Was about an hour away and we weren't on a sightseeing tour. Those are some beautiful pictures. The drive is worth the expense. America has some beautiful scenery.

    Trapped in the People's Communits Republic of Massachusetts.

  • webmostwebmost Posts: 7,713 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @0patience said:
    Day 1 of retirement.
    Found out that sleeping in sucks.
    My body hated it. Feels like I took punches all night.
    How do people do that? :)

    Get up early and take a nap mid-day

    “It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)


  • 0patience0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2022

    We made it most the way.
    Stopping north of Clarksville, TN tonight. Then figuring out what we're gonna do.
    We have an offer to run our truck out of Savannah, so we may continue down to Georgia. We might stay the winter in Georgia and run the truck, then look at buying something in Tennessee,

    In Fumo Pax
    Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

    Wylaff said:
    Atmospheric pressure and crap.
  • JrflicksterJrflickster Posts: 3,545 ✭✭✭✭✭

    So you went for a ride with no destination? Bigger balls than me...or something. Good luck with whatever happens next Tony I wish you the best

  • GuitardedGuitarded Posts: 4,643 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Jrflickster said:
    So you went for a ride with no destination?

    Not all who wander……are lost.
    Sometimes the journey is more valuable than the actual destination.

    I got my first SS deposit in July.
    I was sort of forced in to early retirement when Covid closed the casino.
    My teamsters pension doesn’t start until I’m 65, so the next 3 years are going to be lean. I’m willing and able to work but I really don’t want another “job”.
    My wife has 3 years left on her contact with UNM so we will be here getting rid of stuff and fixing the house to sell.
    Blah blah blah…..

    Friends don't let good friends smoke cheap cigars.
  • JrflicksterJrflickster Posts: 3,545 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Welcome back Michael

  • CalvinAndHoboCalvinAndHobo Posts: 2,928 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Guitarded said:

    @Jrflickster said:
    So you went for a ride with no destination?

    Not all who wander……are lost.
    Sometimes the journey is more valuable than the actual destination.

    I got my first SS deposit in July.
    I was sort of forced in to early retirement when Covid closed the casino.
    My teamsters pension doesn’t start until I’m 65, so the next 3 years are going to be lean. I’m willing and able to work but I really don’t want another “job”.
    My wife has 3 years left on her contact with UNM so we will be here getting rid of stuff and fixing the house to sell.
    Blah blah blah…..

    Every time someone here in Vegas is farting around on their phone and doesn’t realize the action is on them, I think of you retiring early lol.

  • GuitardedGuitarded Posts: 4,643 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thanks for the thoughts Calvin …..I don’t miss it.

    Friends don't let good friends smoke cheap cigars.
  • 0patience0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Staying few days in a place called Parker Crossroads, TN.
    Looking at a place in Camden, TN..
    Not holding my breath, as property seems to go quick.
    If I can find a place to rent a spot to put my semi trailer, it would help.

    In Fumo Pax
    Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

    Wylaff said:
    Atmospheric pressure and crap.
  • peter4jcpeter4jc Posts: 15,315 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It's no doubt regional, but the Fed's rate increase along w/ inflation is slowing down the housing market in some parts. Maybe the demand will slow down and the supply will go up where you're looking.

    "I could've had a Mi Querida!"   Nick Bardis
  • 0patience0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Found a place to store my semi for $25/month in Gleason, TN.
    So one problem taken care of.
    Now to get figured out what we are gonna do.
    Seems that I have $1100 going out per month and since my pension is the only income they will allow, since my truck is a new business, they won't consider that income, my debt to income ratio is high.

    Never ending merry go round.

    In Fumo Pax
    Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

    Wylaff said:
    Atmospheric pressure and crap.
  • Amos_UmwhatAmos_Umwhat Posts: 8,405 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This has been the theme from our entertainment industry and other cultural influences for a long time.
    Dad is clueless, Mom isn't much better, but she's female, so she must be better somehow. Only the kids know what's really going on. They are the wise ones with understanding.

    WARNING:  The above post may contain thoughts or ideas known to the State of Caliphornia to cause seething rage, confusion, distemper, nausea, perspiration, sphincter release, or cranial implosion to persons who implicitly trust only one news source, or find themselves at either the left or right political extreme.  Proceed at your own risk.  

    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • silvermousesilvermouse Posts: 19,044 ✭✭✭✭✭

    https://www.wired.com/story/high-tech-cars-killing-the-traditional-auto-repair-shop/

    “We're getting a lot more techie students, who are interested in computers and software and pretty whizzy with an iPhone and an iPad,” he says. When one of his shops decided to certify a technician in Kia, Nissan, and Fiat Chrysler repair, he nominated his youngest technician—making an investment in the repair industry’s future.

  • 0patience0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭

    How to tell a mechanic he's too old without telling him he's too old.

    Thank you for applying to our EQUIPMENT FIELD TECHNICIAN position. Although your qualifications and experience are notable, we are moving forward with other candidates whose qualifications moreh closely match our business needs at this time.

    In Fumo Pax
    Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

    Wylaff said:
    Atmospheric pressure and crap.
  • TheKrakenTheKraken Posts: 2,240 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That sucks.

    Keep your head up Tony, you don't want to be there anyways.

  • 0patience0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Agreed. I'm working now, but some of the jobs I applied for pay way more money.
    It just gets irritating to be "over qualified".
    Which is short for too old.

    In Fumo Pax
    Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

    Wylaff said:
    Atmospheric pressure and crap.
  • RhamlinRhamlin Posts: 8,908 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 2022

    Luckily for me my industry is so short of people they’re begging people to come out of retirement. The big outfits are offering upwards of 5-8,0000$ signup bonuses. Depending on which rivers you can run. Just got to stick around for 6 months.

  • 0patience0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Rhamlin
    The mechanic industry is having a hard time finding techs.
    I never figured my age was gonna be an issue, but clearly I was wrong.
    Only Peterbilt seems to think old people are worth hiring.

    In Fumo Pax
    Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

    Wylaff said:
    Atmospheric pressure and crap.
  • Hobbes86Hobbes86 Posts: 3,159 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @0patience said:
    @Rhamlin
    The mechanic industry is having a hard time finding techs.
    I never figured my age was gonna be an issue, but clearly I was wrong.
    Only Peterbilt seems to think old people are worth hiring.

    I'd hire an old-timer just to help impart some wisdom and know-how onto the younger fellas. Lord knows many of us young bucks need it!

    "Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17

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