Mornin' all,
Houston: Mostly Cloudy 76°F (24°C) Might be an OK day, maybe no rain.

ChrisR, good thanks for starting it, but keep the noise down please. Hmmm missed PT

CIN checking the back yard for donun package, good aim.

For my birthday over a week ago, got a nice smoker/ grill. Learning to use it.
Smoked some pork ribs and beef ribs, need more practice with the beef.
Had the ribs with 'tater salad, corn on the cob. Yum. DONT beleave the wife and daughter that I used the SOUTH BEACH DIET concentration camp cook book to start the fire with.

Charlott, momma spider is sitting in her water dish, toting the cacoon.

Time to roll the wife out of the sack, feed her and send her off to work.

Hat, enjoy your day. Last day of vacation?

Have a good un and be safe out there.

 

Hey, tone it down a tad, would ya???? Your 0445 is my 0145 and the sound is reverberating across the Rockies.

Now, where is the coffee pot hiding this time.......

Back to work, gotta make sparks and glowing lightbulbs so the world can see what the heck they're doing....

THREAD HIJACK: What we need around here is a forum for soon-to-be retiree's to get advise from those who have gone on before us. Boy, is it confusing. Anyone know the system well enough to give me some answers perhaps, drop me a PM. Or perhaps a pointer to an online site, similar to this one, that I might view.
THREAD returned to your normal? viewing.

~Dave

 

How about starting a thread on retirement advice? Heck the joke thread and concrtete bedliner threads have lasted about 5 years.

 

(tapping foot with ruler in hand...) SOMEONE forgot about the inspection this morning... That'll be 100 down-ups for the stain, 400 for the wrinkles, and a thousand for not worring about me...
Thanks. Yep, last day. Start work tomorrow, normal hours, 0500-1800 till Saturday, then we pick up a 92 man herd. No mercy until sometime in October. 18+ hour days again. No reast for the weary...
Just start one in the other (this) section... or ask Top... he started a good retirement job... as the DTR CEO/sherrif/bouncer/hitman/collection agency/DTR linebacker/sniper/mortor man/assasion/retard elimator... ... ... did I miss any?
Red, I seen the bedliner thread a few weeks ago... classic. I remember seeing that when I first joined and was a noobienoobie... I was like, WTH???

Got some errands to run, then try to take the wife out for the last meal...

Coffee's weak. Needs some kick!!!

 

Mornin' all,

Poor Hat - - back to work. Tough. Hope you enjoyed the sunshine state and didn't get any gator bites. Probably got the bejeebers scared out of you with the lightning storms.

Hey Don, nothing to retirement - - just do it, man. Fun. I tried to do it at 55 and got bored - - drove the Mrs. nuts. So, we both went back to work as consultants part time for many years. They sent us all over the world for the company - - nice paid trips - - fun. You might wander into the www.fidelity.com site and look for retirement planning. They have a worksheet to help you start thinking in the right direction. You don't have to be an investor with them to use the site, just establish an ID with them and go for it.

I see no one made the foo foo again this morning - - soooo, found the pot , cleaned it, found the coffee (Mocha Almond today) and made some. Not bad even if I say so myself. Found the sprinkles - - the donuts were long gone - - sprinkles were everywhere - - amazing that any were left on the donuts.


My printer decided to give up the ghost so it is decision time - - wandering the web to see what is out there. Soooo, I am out of here so I can go spend some money. See ya!!
Bob

 

Retire in 1 year, 5 months, and 15 days (if I don't throw the keys on the desk first). Looking forward to it. With military and civil service retirement combined, looking at about a $500 per month net pay increase.
Got plenty of projects to keep me busy for at least five years. The first one will be to let the hair grow and get the Willie Nelson look. The second one will be to cut it off and look "normal" again.

shortbutnotnext,yetShortround out

 

I'm not retireing, I was just talking to Dave. I quit every night though.

 

Scared? I've been hit by lightning in fl before... on a beef ranch in 'Chobee... Buliding fence, leaning against the wire to staple it up, and lightning hit about 1/8th of a mile down... I think I peed myself pretty good. I grew up with it. Be scared of the one that you don't hear the thunder...
22 years, 16 days...

Got all the errands ran... now for some house work. French bread pizza for lunch. I'm taking Mrs Mad out to olive garden in Savannah tonight, got a babysitter. Might go UA and leave the kids, too...

 

Evenin' all,

Getting ready for the cateract sergury tomorrow morning. Have to report in at 0800. Nothing avter midnigt, gonna miss the Wife will be my designated driver. Prolly have to drive on Wednessday also for the follow up.
Wife working late tonight, so she gets the work out that need go be done. She a bit New gal that she just hired, and is good in the job, gave 1 day notice that she is taking another job.

ChrisR make sure BacktoworkHAT is up in the morning

Have a good un, and be safe out there.

 

Good luck tomorrow Davey!!

 

Hey Fellas,

All of this talk of you guys getting ready to retire is just driving the point closer to home that I have a long, long ways to go before I can even think about retirement!!!!

Seriously, congrats to you guys! I will be at that point someday, (even if it seems like a lifetime away) and I just hope that I have good enough health and have saved enough money to enjoy some good retirement years.

My dad was fortunate enough to retire last summer at age 59. (I think) He is having the time of his life, bought a motorcycle, growing his hair and beard like a hippie, fishing a couple days a week, working on building his new workshop, ect. ect. ect. Oh what a life! He says, "With everything I've got to do, I don't see how I found the time to go to work!"

 

Yea and somewhere in Washington , some guy is still waiting for those surrender papers Quahna "forgot" to sign.......
Scared? I've been hit by lightning in fl before... .... thats sure explains alot.....


ChrisR make sure BacktoworkHAT is up in the morning
no problem, got some unexpended ordinance laying around here somewhere I'm sure......

Hey, tone it down a tad, would ya???? Your 0445 is my 0145 and the sound is reverberating across the Rockies. Aint my fault if you CHOOSE to live on teh wrong side of the hill.....


See Y'all bright and EARLY.......

gotthedogwatchblues..........................CD

 

I don't know whether to say it's late night or early morning, I woke up at 7:12 am Monday and I have yet to sleep and I'm about to go to work early so I don't have to stay as long. I was thinking at 5:30 that I was going to get to bed early and have a good nights sleep. Then a buddy called and said that he needed his truck hauled to his mechanic in a town 80 miles away, asap. (95 Ford Powerstroke) So by the time we got a trailer I felt secure in pulling and his truck loaded (which could barely run, hence the reason to take it to his mechanic) it was 9pm. That truck sounded absolutely terrible and died 4 times while he was just backing it up. It took a 60's model Ford Ranger and a chain to get the truck on the trailer. The we haul it over there and the truck started just fine, backed down on it's own power. I commented to him that my dad had luck with horses that are trying to colic, to jump them in a trailer and run them down a rough road. He said great, now your comparing my truck to a colicky horse. I wish I took pics, it was a nice Ford that I had loaded behind my truck. Got home at 1:30am, and thinking I'm just going to get a 15 minute nap before going into work.
Duallydon'tevenwanttothinkhowdogtiredheis

 

<Klaxon Bell Sounding:> DONG DONG DONG DONG, NOW THIS IS A DRILL, THIS IS A DRILL..... CONFUSION, CONFUSION!!! ALL HANDS PORT LAY STARBOARD, ALL HANDS STARBOARD LAY PORT, ALL HANDS FORWARD LAY AFT, ALL HANDS AFT LAY FORWARD, ALL HANDS TOPSIDE LAY BELOW, ALL HANDS AMIDSHIPS, STAND-BY TO DIRECT TRAFFIC, NOW CONFUSION CONFUSION... THIS IS A DRILL...DONG DONG DONG DONG.......<throwing a flashbang down teh hallway>


GOOD MORNING DTR!!!!! HAT? TURN-TO MARINE! VACATIONS OVER!!!!!

that should have gotten everyones blood flowing and eyes open!!

Coffee is on, but please, return to the Berthing Areas and get dressed, I cant beleive all you guys( and gal?) respond to an alarm in yer skivvies, and Scott, Commando definitly doesnt suit you!!!!last critter I saw THAT hairy was named Bethoveen and left slobber marks all over the truck windowsWe know where the legend of Sasquatch comes from now dont we......

Davey, good luck today and keep an eye out( pun intended) for the pretty nurses.....they all have needles

Yall have a good one now

Inhidingfortherestoftheday........................ ...CD

 

Breakfast is flying again this morning.ChrisR you r getting a double order one is fresh and one is stale so watch your head

There is just no sense in being so loud this mornin,you better be in hiding for the rest of the day.

Good Luck Davey!!!!!

Got another busy busy day today.Have a good'n .Cin