The book has been good so far...

[zeeprogrammer]

This is how most of my projects begin...and end...

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXXpqMSNevE" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXXpqMSNevE</a>

[crueby]

This is how most of my projects begin...and end...

[youtube1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXXpqMSNevE[/youtube1]

Good old Daffy!!   

[Art K]

Yoiks, look out for that....
Art

[b.lindsey]

Maybe you shouldn't be trying to swing around the shop from machine to machine Zee. 

Bill

[Tennessee Whiskey]

Bangood probably do some affordable diamond wheels that would have worked on the rock 

Cletus

[mklotz]

I think you should go out in the shop and make yourself some simple tchotchke to commemorate your retirement - something that you'll use often and, every time you fondle it, will bring back memories of the first days of your freedom.

A fancy brass and stainless stinking hoppy stirrer, fitted with a stirring spoon on one end and an onion fork on the other would be perfect and would only require a few hours of shop time.

While stirring with it, you could chant along with me...

No more staff meetings, EVER;  No more staff meetings, EVER; No more...

[fumopuc]

No more staff meetings, EVER;  No more staff meetings, EVER; No more...

....and no Powerpoint engineering anymore.
Still two and a half year to wait for that point.

[Maryak]

Hi Zee,

Sorry mate I am and have been pretty well out of circulation for a while now, (life keeps getting in the way).

Fantastic workshop and belated congratulations on your retirement.

Kind Regards Bob

[crueby]

"Staff Meetings".... "Powerpoint"....

Wish you guys would stop swearing!   

Next, you'll be using that (shudder) M word - Marketing!     

[zeeprogrammer]

Thanks guys.
I guess I'm not fully de-tox'd.
I got a model in the mail today from the Ukraine.
As a gift, in it was some candy and a 1 Hryvnia banknote (worth about 4 cents).
My first thought was to take it to work and show it to the fellows. (You'll recall I designed banknote acceptors.)
Silly on two counts. 1) "go back to work?  and 2) we have (rather, they have) a development group in Kiev along with a trial on one of the last products I worked on.

@Marv - tchotchkes are a great idea. (Yes, I had to look the word up.)

@Bob - how's the Beagle going?

[b.lindsey]

I guess I will have the same things to go through in a month or so....thanks for all the heads up Zee  After the last three weeks of advising, and the last couple of days of registration issues...there are a few things I definitely won't miss.

Bill

[Bertie_Bassett]

congratulations on the retirement and good luck for the future 

one day i hope i'll be fortunate enough to walk out of work and never go back. got 35 years to go till then!.

make sure you give yourself some goals, otherwise it's far too easy to just sit back and stop altogether.

above all else, enjoy yourself

[Maryak]

@Bob - how's the Beagle going?

Still Beagling away

[zeeprogrammer]

 

[philjoe5]

This was my retirement plan - worked out OK so far

Contented man, A, adds diesel oil to fuel tank, B, which powers engine, C, thus driving generator D.  Generator D, powers fan, E, thus cooling contented man A, and by evaporative cooling keeps drink, F cool and refreshing.  This process should now continue indefinitely.

Cheers,

Phil (chemist, ret, 6/05)

Enjoy it!