I don't want to go to work tomorrow.

[DeltaV]

Back on 01 Aug 2022, I said I would post some stuff if it seemed interesting. So here it goes:

This one is of Kinzua Bridge in Pennsylvania (out first stop).


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This was in New York


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These still exist (also NY)

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We met this guy, named "Jack Frost" while in New York. One COOL dog

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High atop New Hampshire gave us this shot:

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Then Maine, where we have been for a week


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More a little later as our connection out here is not the best.

There are so many beautiful places in the northeast part of our country.

 

[Kern Dog]

There are so many beautiful places in the northeast part of our country.

.....and I want to see them.

Uhhh....EDIT: Cranky reminded me of something.
I want to see them in the SPRING and the FALL.....not the Winter!

 

[Cranky]

There are so many beautiful places in the northeast part of our country.

Saw a lot of it when I was young but man, the winters weren't too good. Been in the south since 63 and am still here.....

 

[440 PHIXX]

I put in for a day off tomorrow. It’s supposed to rain all day here. So I might just sleep in.

 

[DeltaV]

Saw a lot of it when I was young but man, the winters weren't too good. Been in the south since 63 and am still here.....

Yeah, I'm here in hot and humid Savannah for the rest of my life (I think). I love snow and the beautiful scenery up north, but those extended months of sub sub zero temps were a bit much at times. Overall, I liked it up there, but the Mrs had a hard time with the cold temps. Also, cold winter temps are great for astronomical viewing. Uncomfortable, but clear views of the cosmos!

 

[Roger63]

I've read a few pages and I have to say that I'm envious of you guys that got to pick your retirement date. My retirement was sudden and permanent. I really miss working I loved what I did. Delivering somebody's boat a lot of times was like delivering somebody's 69 hemi charger . The rewards were tremendous. Yea I wish I could go to work tomorrow.

 

[Kern Dog]

I put in for a day off tomorrow. It’s supposed to rain all day here. So I might just sleep in.

It was 102 here by 11:00 AM. That is highly unusual for this area. Since I work outside, I quit working at 100 but today, I woke up feeling crappy so I skipped.

 

[CHARGERSTEVEN]

It was 102 here by 11:00 AM. That is highly unusual for this area. Since I work outside, I quit working at 100 but today, I woke up feeling crappy so I skipped.

I though you were going to retire n move out of state.Thats the way you feel when its getting close to pack it in.

 

[Kern Dog]

My retirement date is not far away!

 

[beanhead]

It was 102 here by 11:00 AM. That is highly unusual for this area. Since I work outside, I quit working at 100 but today, I woke up feeling crappy so I skipped.

Call that a 4-day weekend!
115° today so you know where I am

 

[beanhead]

My retirement date is not far away!

That's awesome.
Just make sure you keep yo' butt movin'! (I know YOU will) I've seen a lot of guys retire from the trades and croak it within a year or two because they "fished and drank like a fish everyday" like they always wanted to...I technically have about 10 more years to hit all the marks but since I like what I'm doing I'm not counting down. My partner has a countdown clock on his phone, that he likes sharing with anyone that'll listen...but I like to give him **** and say because of his 3 divorces he's gonna have to go 'till 75, at least!

 

[Kern Dog]

I don't fish and I rarely drink. I work on my cars and post stuff on forums like these!
Weight gain is a concern. I'll have to cut back on some of the indulgences and probably start exercising more to balance it out or I'll be fat in 3 months.

 

[beanhead]

I don't fish and I rarely drink. I work on my cars and post stuff on forums like these!
Weight gain is a concern. I'll have to cut back on some of the indulgences and probably start exercising more to balance it out or I'll be fat in 3 months.

Yeah...the older we get the more stubborn the fat gets! Sucks.

 

[Richard Cranium]

I've been retired a little over 4 months now, but I'm going to head into the office tomorrow morning .... to collect the rent checks.

 

[hanks73340]

Going on 2 years of being retired. Been working part time at Home Depot and it keeps me very busy. Its amazing how(just being blunt here) stupid all of these DIY folks are and think they know it all. If they don't like my answers I tell them to go to Lowes or Menards. Average 4 miles each day just walking the damn store since its one of the larger ones. Lost a few pounds but at least not gaining. Actually gonna take the next 4 days off and take the Charger to a 3 day car show here at Frankrnmuth.

 

[Kern Dog]

How does that work if you move to a right to work state, as far as working your 480 hours a year and then non union work, am I saying that right?

In a strange twist of fate, I spoke with the pension benefits person today to finalize my application.
The issue of working in construction during retirement was on my mind, so I asked....
"If I moved to a Right to Work state, what are my limitations then?"
She said that if I am outside their jurisdiction, (Northern CA) there are NO restrictions.
With the possible move to Tennessee, I can build houses again with no worry. THIS is great news!

 

[Kern Dog]

I've read a few pages and I have to say that I'm envious of you guys that got to pick your retirement date. My retirement was sudden and permanent. I really miss working I loved what I did. Delivering somebody's boat a lot of times was like delivering somebody's 69 hemi charger . The rewards were tremendous. Yea I wish I could go to work tomorrow.

Sorry...I don't recall what happened.
Tell us the story.

 

[GetX'd]

I bailed rather suddenly myself. I've worked in the upper ranks of large scale corporate America for 35 years. Obviously didn't start out at the top - didn't end at the top either. But just close enough to where I was in constant hand to hand combat with the enemy from within. A lot of you guys know what I'm talking about. It's never the outside (I was in sales) it's always the inside of your own company that's hardest to deal with. So many can't be trusted - so many trying to go around you, over you thru you - which ever way they can make themselves look better and get a rung up on the ladder. Not me - I fought that **** my whole career and yes it cost me money and bigger better offices throughout. But frankly i fought that to. They try to buy you if they can't break you. Well neither worked on me. I spent a career trying to stay out of the never ending vortex's of politics et al.
I had a typical drop dead heart attack at 55. Only our Good Lord kept me alive for some unknown reason. The "Widow Maker" 100% blockage of the left main artery. Rarely survivable and if you do - you usually have severe heart damage. 20-25% functional heart muscle left. Don't ask me how or why - I had major complications for an entire year after - but my heart muscle was intact with no perceivable damage. I had to stay off the job for a year .

Came back and went at it for another year. Everything inside me had changed. I knew it before but never acted on it - hell I was only 56. But I was completely if I kept going the job demands and all the extras was going to kill me. One night as was my habit I was in the office late. As was my boss who normally left earlier. I stopped by his office and calmly laid out a series of things basically in a measured manner describing what a POS I thought he'd been these past nine years. All the many times he hung me out to dry to cover his own ***, how all he'd ever done is use people then toss them aside like so much spoiled meat. He played constant head games and politics to his own benefit no one else's. He liked to brag about being army intelligence back during Vietnam years. Made him feel like a big shot strategist while truth be told all his winning strategies and remarkable mission successes came from the people he surrounded himself with - me and a number of the team that had the goods. He reported to the CEO/President and I reported to him. Pretty high up on the food chain for 15,000 employee Corp - 120 year old publicly traded company based in downtown Chicago - any direction you looked you were lapping up Lake Michigan or some part of the rest of the financial district off the lake.

After that little chat with the man, I came home and told my wife I was thru. That night - right then and there I decided enough was enough. I was done. I never graced the door steps of that or any of our other offices again. They called me after a few days and asked what was up - I said "Oh I thought you knew - I quit". There was a number of paperwork items and funds they owed me - but all was taKen care of. I heard the insider he chose to promote to my position didn't even last a year. In fact from what I understand he was tossed after about a year and a half from my exit. Not saying his failings came to light after my departure - but what I am saying is I got to tell him what a POS he was and then I left on my own terms - nobody else's. Left a good financial gig but not one worth killing myself over. Don't anyone kid yourselves - In corporate America you're just a piece of disposable meat, nothing more. I was only 56 but had planned for that day for decades. Didn't know how, why or when it would come - but back in my early 30's I knew it would come because I'd often witnessed what they'd done to others - And I prepared from then on. I've never looked back.

 

[Roger63]

Sorry...I don't recall what happened.
Tell us the story.

I had never really been sick in my life before Feburary 2020. I've had pneumonia a few times over the year's from the sometimes daily weather changes that comes with driving 700 miles a day. This time I got it in 24 hours and it put me in the hospital. Double pneumonia while going septic, I don't remember walking into the emergency room. While there they said that their was something in my right kidney and to get it checked out when I got back to Oklahoma. So I did, and it turned out to be cancer, what they didn't tell me was there was another tumor unrelated in my left lung in the main airway which limited the use to just 20% lung capacity. I got both taken care of fully checked out and I went back to work. My 1st clue that something else was wrong didn't come till mid July 2020. I had a little numbness in my left foot in my toes, I loaded some boats and took them to Florida and did fine. Then I loaded a big boat permitted and routed for California. The farther I went the worse it got and the pain was tremendous in my back. Stopped at a hospital they told me I had sciatica and gave me a couple shots and I felt better. But it wasn't, by the time I got to Colorado I couldn't walk without help. My wife met me in Reno and helped me deliver the boat and escorted back to Oklahoma. That was it for me, they found another tumor on T4 vertebrae that was crushing my spinal cord. They operated on me Aug 18th in a 8 hour surgery, when I woke up the doctor told me that he did all he could but I would never walk again as there were no measurable signals below my waist. I told him he was wrong as I was already lifting my feet off the bed. Stage 4 renal cell carcinoma is what I have, a death sentence. It took me 8 months to get to where I can walk with a cane. The surgeon won't clear me to get my DOT medical certification so I'm just retired and grateful that I'm still here.

 

[moparedtn]

I had never really been sick in my life before Feburary 2020. I've had pneumonia a few times over the year's from the sometimes daily weather changes that comes with driving 700 miles a day. This time I got it in 24 hours and it put me in the hospital. Double pneumonia while going septic, I don't remember walking into the emergency room. While there they said that their was something in my right kidney and to get it checked out when I got back to Oklahoma. So I did, and it turned out to be cancer, what they didn't tell me was there was another tumor unrelated in my left lung in the main airway which limited the use to just 20% lung capacity. I got both taken care of fully checked out and I went back to work. My 1st clue that something else was wrong didn't come till mid July 2020. I had a little numbness in my left foot in my toes, I loaded some boats and took them to Florida and did fine. Then I loaded a big boat permitted and routed for California. The farther I went the worse it got and the pain was tremendous in my back. Stopped at a hospital they told me I had sciatica and gave me a couple shots and I felt better. But it wasn't, by the time I got to Colorado I couldn't walk without help. My wife met me in Reno and helped me deliver the boat and escorted back to Oklahoma. That was it for me, they found another tumor on T4 vertebrae that was crushing my spinal cord. They operated on me Aug 18th in a 8 hour surgery, when I woke up the doctor told me that he did all he could but I would never walk again as there were no measurable signals below my waist. I told him he was wrong as I was already lifting my feet off the bed. Stage 4 renal cell carcinoma is what I have, a death sentence. It took me 8 months to get to where I can walk with a cane. The surgeon won't clear me to get my DOT medical certification so I'm just retired and grateful that I'm still here.

God love ya brother. Damn, that's quite the load for a fella to carry - and as you know, I'm right there with you.
You know all the prayers and good vibes are coming off this ridge aimed at you this morning...