Happy New Year

[Allen]

This time next year I'll be retired!!! Yahoo!!! Best wishes for the new year everyone.

[bcooke]

This time next year I'll be retired!!!

and I have how many more years? You just ruined my new year...

hehe :-)

(tank estimate should be in any-day-now)

-Britton

[jhenson]

Allen,

Upon retirement, where will go in you newly re-fitted Triton?

Happy Retirement and Happy New Year!

(13 1/2 years to go for me)

Joe

[Tim]

I will probably never officially retire. Self-employment is great in many ways, but the retirement plan is pretty lousy.

Then again, I say that if one can enjoy their entire working life and not be a slave to "The Man", then retirement becomes less of an issue. I can't complain about life or work now. I wouldn't change a thing. (Except the weather, if I could.)

Did anyone else go to bed before the "big event" last night? Woo-hoo. I was in bed by 10. Mr. Excitement, at your service!

2007. Wow. Remember when 1984 was the ominous "future"?

[Duncan]

2007. Wow. Remember when 1984 was the ominous "future"?

Haha, or when "2001: A Space Odyssey" seemed like a real possibility?

Lights were out at 10:30. Happy New Year, folks, all the best.
I have simplified my resolutions, by deciding to do whatever leads to sailing more this year!

[cantstopnow]

Retire \Re*tire"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Retired; p. pr. & vb.
n. Retiring.] [F. retirer; pref. re- re- + tirer to draw.
See Tirade.]
1. To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively.

He . . . retired himself, his wife, and children
into a forest. --Sir P.
Sidney.

As when the sun is present all the year, And never
doth retire his golden ray. --Sir J.
Davies.

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Retire \Re*tire"\, v. i.
1. To go back or return; to draw back or away; to keep aloof;
to withdraw or retreat, as from observation; to go into
privacy; as, to retire to his home; to retire from the
world, or from notice.

To Una back he cast him to retire. --Spenser.

The mind contracts herself, and shrinketh in, And to
herself she gladly doth retire. --Sir J.
Davies.

2. To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety
or pleasure; as, to retire from battle.

Set Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle,
and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and
die. --2 Sam. xi.
15.

3. To withdraw from a public station, or from business; as,
having made a large fortune, he retired.

And from Britannia's public posts retire. --Addison.

4. To recede; to fall or bend back; as, the shore of the sea
retires in bays and gulfs.

5. To go to bed; as, he usually retires early.

Syn: To withdraw; leave; depart; secede; recede; retreat;
retrocede.

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Retire \Re*tire"\, n.
1. The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; also,
a place to which one retires. [Obs.]

The battle and the retire of the English succors.
--Bacon.

[Eve] discover'd soon the place of her retire.
--Milton.

2. (Mil.) A call sounded on a bugle, announcing to
skirmishers that they are to retire, or fall back.

Nowhere in this definition is there a mention of a specific monetary requirement for retirement .
That gives me hope:)

I will probably never officially retire. Self-employment is great in many ways, but the retirement plan is pretty lousy.

If I were to add up all the time that I have been able to take off while other non self employed friends had to work I probably have a good head start on the retirement thing? Ever the optimist.

[Robert The Gray]

Here on the west coast we often just act like we are in times square. It is the new year by 9 pm. The great ball beat me to bed last night but I was asleep before it was new years day in denver!

Happy sailing everyone!
r

[Ancient Race]

I will probably never officially retire. Self-employment is great in many ways, but the retirement plan is pretty lousy.

Then again, I say that if one can enjoy their entire working life and not be a slave to "The Man", then retirement becomes less of an issue. I can't complain about life or work now. I wouldn't change a thing. (Except the weather, if I could.)

When I first got started in arbitration, one of the old timers told me: "Don't think of it as a career; think of it as a retirement".

And he was right. I can't imagine not doing something to justify my existence. So I make a modest but adequate living working a couple days a week, on my own schedule. Leaving time for sailing and skiing and running rivers and riding bikes and working on boat projects. At least in theory. The old goat didn't say anything about how to get the weather to cooperate . . .

In any case, Happy New Years to all - y prospero ano to the New Mexicans.

[Allen]

This time next year I'll be retired!!!

and I have how many more years? You just ruined my new year...

hehe :-)

(tank estimate should be in any-day-now)

-Britton

You know Britton, there are times I wish I'd had the intestinal fortitude to just go about twenty years ago. :)

Good news on the tank. :D

Allen,

Upon retirement, where will go in you newly re-fitted Triton?

Happy Retirement and Happy New Year!

(13 1/2 years to go for me)

Joe

Joe, the plan is to take about 3 1/2 months to get everything squared away then start from the upper Chesapeake bay and wondering south checking out things as I go. The only real plan for the Chesapeake is to make the 4th of July celebration in DC and watch the fireworks from the water. The very loose schedule has me making Key West around the end of hurricane season. There isn't much of a plan after that. I would like to do a lighthouse tour of Florida and cruise around the Keys for a while. After that it's the Caribbean.

[dasein668]

Clearly you folks are saving too much energy for your boats... going to bed at 10pm! I think this photo below sums up our evening pretty well...

[Tim]

Wow...a formal affair!

What's that, your wedding tie? Classy.