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jaylach
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Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2017 9:02 pm |
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Joined: Wed Mar 21, 2012 5:09 am Posts: 9488 Location: The state of confusion; I just use Wyoming for mail.
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bbarry
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Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2017 9:28 pm |
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Joined: Fri Nov 30, 2012 12:47 am Posts: 2434 Location: North Central Arkansas
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I'll celebrate with you. I've been retired for 237 months!!
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jaylach
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Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2017 9:50 pm |
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Well... WELL!!! Braggart! Exactly how am I supposed to catch up? Ahhh, I got it! You may have 237 months but that makes it so you are used to it. For me, with just 1 month, it is just plain cool! Of course this is an inverse theory that involves singularities and black holes. My research has shown that the appreciation of retirement is in direct proportion to the location of the nearest black hole that has been relocated via a singularity. Now Relativity comes into play. As you approach this relocated black hole the gravity well accelerates you to the proximity of the speed of light. As Relativity shows that time 'warps' as you approach this speed it become obvious that we have been retired for the same amount of time. LOL! Don't even ask where that all came from. Let's just say that my mind works in mysterious ways when it works at all.
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Acadia
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Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2017 7:01 am |
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Now that IS something to celebrate. GG and I going on 5 years next month. After a combined 62 years at the State Library, we left on the same day. Acadia
_________________ The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution. -- Emerson
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Doddie
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Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2017 4:16 pm |
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jaylach wrote: LOL! Don't even ask where that all came from. Let's just say that my mind works in mysterious ways when it works at all. Alternatively you could just catch Superman on a bad day, and ask for a lift https://youtu.be/CCsHTNP2MaU
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JoanA
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Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2017 3:09 pm |
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Joined: Thu Apr 05, 2012 3:25 pm Posts: 1916 Location: Pembrokeshire, South Wales, UK
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Well I'll beat the lot of you, in a couple of weeks it will be 14 years for me and to be honest I don't know how I found time to go to work there aren't enough hours in the day now to do all the things I want to do each day.
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bbarry
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Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2017 3:59 pm |
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Joined: Fri Nov 30, 2012 12:47 am Posts: 2434 Location: North Central Arkansas
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JoanA wrote: Well I'll beat the lot of you, in a couple of weeks it will be 14 years for me and to be honest I don't know how I found time to go to work there aren't enough hours in the day now to do all the things I want to do each day. Well, maybe you will beat the lot of them except for me, lol. 14x12=168 months, as compared to my 237 months.
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JoanA
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Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2017 10:36 am |
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Joined: Thu Apr 05, 2012 3:25 pm Posts: 1916 Location: Pembrokeshire, South Wales, UK
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bbarry wrote: JoanA wrote: Well I'll beat the lot of you, in a couple of weeks it will be 14 years for me and to be honest I don't know how I found time to go to work there aren't enough hours in the day now to do all the things I want to do each day. Well, maybe you will beat the lot of them except for me, lol. 14x12=168 months, as compared to my 237 months. Did you take early retirement ? I was 60 when I retired and I'll be 74 on the 1st August, although some days I feel a lot older but the main thing is I'm alive.
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bbarry
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Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2017 10:58 am |
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Joined: Fri Nov 30, 2012 12:47 am Posts: 2434 Location: North Central Arkansas
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Joan, I do like the 'alive' part of being retired, lol.
Yes, after being with the same company for 30 years, I took an early retirement at age 59-1/2. I turned 79 this past April.....and that is why Jay says my mental capacity is no longer at the speed of light. Or maybe he says my mental capacity is warped. I can't remember which.
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sboots
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Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2017 8:39 pm |
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LOL, bbarry!
_________________ stephen boots Microsoft MVP 2004 - 2020 "Life's always an adventure with computers!"
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jaylach
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Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2017 11:24 pm |
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Joined: Wed Mar 21, 2012 5:09 am Posts: 9488 Location: The state of confusion; I just use Wyoming for mail.
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bbarry wrote: Joan, I do like the 'alive' part of being retired, lol.
Yes, after being with the same company for 30 years, I took an early retirement at age 59-1/2. I turned 79 this past April.....and that is why Jay says my mental capacity is no longer at the speed of light. Or maybe he says my mental capacity is warped. I can't remember which. But BB... I appreciate your 'warped' mental state. It perfectly matches mine.
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Acadia
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Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2017 6:38 am |
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bbarry wrote: ... I took an early retirement at age 59-1/2... I went out at 58-3/4 but had my full 35 years in. GG had worked 27, that's where we met. I had been telling everyone for years that I was not going to work one day past the 35, and I kept my word. The party they had for us was nifty but nothing compared to the party we had the following week at a Mexican restaurant with all of our closer work mates. Acadia
_________________ The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution. -- Emerson
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JoanA
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Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2017 10:21 am |
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Joined: Thu Apr 05, 2012 3:25 pm Posts: 1916 Location: Pembrokeshire, South Wales, UK
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bbarry wrote: Joan, I do like the 'alive' part of being retired, lol.
Yes, after being with the same company for 30 years, I took an early retirement at age 59-1/2. I turned 79 this past April.....and that is why Jay says my mental capacity is no longer at the speed of light. Or maybe he says my mental capacity is warped. I can't remember which. Mine must be warped then as it's never been the speed of light.
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Acadia
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Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2017 11:44 am |
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My mind is both warped (or worst) and as slow as a pregnant snail moving thru molasses. Don't believe me, just as GG. Acadia
_________________ The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution. -- Emerson
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JoanA
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Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2017 4:02 pm |
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Joined: Thu Apr 05, 2012 3:25 pm Posts: 1916 Location: Pembrokeshire, South Wales, UK
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Nice one Acadia.
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jaylach
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Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2017 7:17 pm |
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Joined: Wed Mar 21, 2012 5:09 am Posts: 9488 Location: The state of confusion; I just use Wyoming for mail.
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It is starting to seem that I got a nice retirement prize from work that I didn't know about... It has been 5 weeks and my employee discount is still active. Since I told the number two manager about this about 1.5 weeks ago it has to be deliberate. I'm sure that it won't be forever but it is nice for as long as it lasts.
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