The book has been good so far...

[vcutajar]

Congratulations Carl. 

Vince

[gerritv]

Congratulations Zee. It was worth the journey, and your new life begins now!
Just think of it as retraining for a new career :-)

Gerrit

[Stuart]

You have joined a great 👍 club been a member for 21 years ( retired at 50 )

Stuart

[Ramon Wilson]

Congrats Zee - enjoy every day as it doesn't half disappear quick  and it's not like having a job - there's not another one to go to 

The very best for a long and happy time 

Tug

[Jo]

  Well done Zee, 


Hang on it is Tuesday  You have been retired 4 days and did not tell us, you haven't been celebrating and drinking  “stinking hoppies" all this time and forgot to tell us    No excuses - get off your butt and get into that workshop we want to see that swarf flying    Start how you mean to go on... so what you going to make first   



Which reminds me - I'll have to go and remind the work's escape committee that I want to be next over the wire   

Jo

[Stuart]

Jo

Take a copy of the “great escape” with you but don’t forget the motorbike 🏍,but don’t you have the wrong one 😂

Wishing you every success in this on going adventure to get to utopia in the workshop

Stuart
A happily retired old git (all nicely healed up ) 

[ShopShoe]

Congratulations on the start of retirement.

--ShopShoe

[Ian S C]

Over the next few weeks, if things go right you will wonder how you ever found time to go to work.  Keep busy, it's good for you.
Ian S C

[Flyboy Jim]

Congratulations on your retirement Carl! 

It takes a week or two to get past the feeling of just being on vacation ............ then the euphoria really sets in!

In regards to the projects around the house......here's a retirement story for you. My wife's brother-in-law was a tuneup mechanic. After he retired he noticed that he was "flat rating" all the little projects he was doing around the house. He said it "took him 2 years to master the fine art of puttering"!

Cheers, Jim 

[zeeprogrammer]

Thank you all. This is very much appreciated.

Hang on it is Tuesday  You have been retired 4 days and did not tell us, you haven't been celebrating and drinking  “stinking hoppies" all this time and forgot to tell us   

No no. It was Monday. Medical insurance stops at end of month.  I had meant to retire two weeks ago but the company asked if I could hang on until the end of the month to get past a trade show. I resisted but they plied me with suggesting April 2nd because my medical insurance would continue to end of month. Not a bad deal. Two weeks pay and a month of medical insurance.

This was the order of things when I got home Monday:

1) Hugged T.
2) Announced I am now unemployed.
3) Got the Bailey's.
4) Posted on facebook for the family.
5) Posted on the forum. (See? Here you are.)
6) Threw away the Bailey's and made a stinking hoppie.
7) Supper (and a stinking hoppie)
7) Ruminated on the fact I'm unemployed (I mean retired).
Continued the stinking hoppies and ruminations.
9) Fell asleep.

Now I'm playing with the CAD.

Thanks again everyone. That was special.

[Steamer5]

Well done Zee!!

Can we expect "The return of the Monitor" soon?? No pressure ...............


Cheers Kerrin

[RayW]

Hi Zee.Congratulations on your retirement. Like most of us, I'm sure you'll soon be wondering how you found time to go to work. I thought that the following poem, written on my retirement, might amuse you. (for the benefit of our non-UK members, an OAP is an Old Age Pensioner!)

Growing old disgracefully is a dying art
But I'm going to have a real good try
And at least I've made a start
I've given up the day job
Which is really quite good news
Because it leaves me lots of time
For pushing into queues

When I'm waiting for a bus
I'll push my way on first
And if anyone should dare complain
I'll mutter and I'll curse
Then I'll keep them waiting while searching for my pass
And make those horrid school kids
Arrive late for their class
I hope they get detention, it'll serve the blighters right
For messing with an OAP, I'll teach them wrong from right!

And in the supermarket, I'll cause chaos at the till
By taking much too long to pack
Then questioning the bill
I'll keep the whole queue waiting
While I fiddle with my card
And if the other shoppers moan
I'll kick their trolley hard

And when I'm buying petrol
I'll fumble with the pump
And then when I am paying
I'll be a real old grump
I'll moan about the prices
And then I'll drop my key
And everyone will have to wait
'Cos I'm an OAP!

Ray

P.S. I'm not really like that!

[Jo]

No no. It was Monday. Medical insurance stops at end of month.  I had meant to retire two weeks ago but the company asked if I could hang on until the end of the month to get past a trade show. I resisted but they plied me with suggesting April 2nd because my medical insurance would continue to end of month. Not a bad deal. Two weeks pay and a month of medical insurance.

..... Thanks again everyone. That was special.

Ok first I'll give you that  Now did we mention:



We want to see you in your workshop making the most of all of this "spare time" - it is no good having nice new machine tools if you don't use them 

Jo

[Admiral_dk]

I started my retirement calendar this year: only nine years and nine months to go 

Ahh - so you're one month ahead of me then Cletus .... I feel like  but it doesn't help ..... and it's bad enough to hear all the rest of the "quire boys" celebrating their retirement    ..... OK rant over - as stated earlier, enjoy it.

[Art K]

Zee,
Congratulations  I am reminded of when my dad retired, I think it took him 2-3 years to get used to. My, he was an ornery old cuss, for that period of time. He didn't have any hobbies, fortunately you do. Cletus had to go and point out that I've got at least a year beyond him.
Art