We hadn’t really planned to do anything in least bit risky in this bear market. However, when our financial adviser called us about the stock price of a company we were pretty familiar with, we decided that it was a good time to invest — since it was nearly half of its high water mark [...]
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I guess I don’t know what being retired means.
Either that or it means something different to other folks.
I guess there is being really retired where you don’t do anything that might bring in some extra income.
For some retirement includes working part time to bring in some supplemental income.
Then, there [...]
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When I retired at the beginning of 2007, I stopped wearing my wristwatch.
I didn’t put it back on until I took a short term contract job in February of this year. At the end of the contract, I again stopped wearing the watch.
I guess, in a way, it’s a symbolic [...]
We’re sitting in a B arnes and Noble in Peoria, Illinois, catching up on e-mail and other stuff.
Today was supposed to be a rainy day so we decided to look for Barnes and Noble stores in the area that we are in so we could get online. Turned out there was about 10 within 60 [...]
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At the end of January, I went back to work at the place I retired from as a contractor. Last Friday was the last day of the contract.
For most of my career, I worked as an operations instructor in nuclear power, both in the Navy (40 months) and at a commercial plant (24 years). As [...]
Not having a job as of the end of next Friday is not a bad thing for me, as some of my few long time readers would know.
You see, I’m retired and this job was just a 7 month contract gig with 4 weeks off in the first half. So, starting next Saturday, I’ll [...]
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I am in the process of going through pictures and preposting again. I want to get ahead so that there is consistent publication for those who do drop by and so that this blog will continue to be active.
Full disclosure… I’m cheating. The images that I’m publishing here in August will appear in September in [...]
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