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Is this good or bad? I hope it’s an amicable separation. If not you might make it more fun for everyone if you let the toilet paper stocks run completely out as you step out the door!

I am very devoted to the organization and most of its people. Let’s put it that way.

Then I apologize sincerely for my suggestion of a disrespectful and tacky practical joke. 😳

No problem, Uncle Al.

Damn AI art. I hate it mostly because it’s so good. I’ll keep doing my sloppy, slow, old school art for therapy if nuthin else.

Congrats on retirement!

I seem to recall a bit of grumbling in the past about what was going on there, specifically about one person.

Early retirement just in time for Spring and the Summer Fete Season… HUZZAH!!

As you may know (or not), this weekend most of the USA undergoes the semi-annual Change of the Clocks, this one being Spring Forward. Note that we spend more months in DST than in ST. States can just “pick one” if they like, as Arizona has done.

Maybe you can go back to the format you had when I first found sweasel.com back in the W Bush days. Or whenever it was. The before times. What fun we had!

So, FIRST! Congrats on the retirement!

Now the rest of the story. I have NEVER understood people who are ambivalent about retiring.

Background: husband and I became a thing when he was 19 and I was 17. We spent the next 40 years working different shifts, having different days off and at least one of us working every holiday. An alarm went off in my house 7 days a week. We had a massive collection of “coffee to go” mugs. The only days with respite were the few days every year we were on vacation. And we spent decades slugging it out with co-workers for time off.

Know what I miss about any of that? Not one damn thing. We have discovered that one of life’s greatest pleasures is to get up in the morning, pour a cup of coffee and smile at each other and say “I read about this/heard about this/what do you think about this”. We have thrown out all of out “to go cups.”

You wanna know what the other pleasure is? For 30 years an alarm went off in my house EVERY DAMN DAY. An alarm goes off in my house now because we choose that we desire an early time.

I like your martini-drinking weasel … both of them. Cheers!
Happy retirement, Stoaty.

Well! Congrats on joining the joy of doing nothing club!
It’s now (forever) the last (15 minutes, day, week, month, year, for some, decade…) of summer after you graduate high school and go out to become a useful citizen!

The brief period before you officially discover adults work the rest of their lives eagerly hoping for a return to the doing nothing phase they can barely remember.
A time when they weren’t working without feeling guilt for NOT working!
A time where they don’t feel just a smidgen of guilt for “not being productive”.
The phase where you’re not supposed to feel angst about, as son #3 would say, laying around on the couch like a useless piece of shite (sounds much better than shit…).

Where you don’t really have to answer to anyone for your failure to demonstrate a work ethic!

“I’m retired!” It’s like telling people you’ve won the lottery!
They envy you, to your face!
“Ah, must he nice” they say.

So, here’s hoping you can fully embrace The Joy of Doing Nothing, not in the sense where you do nothing, but in the sense you do, or do not, what YOU want (alas within limits of health and wealth) without having to apologize or make excuses for not showing up to work.

They will never know or appreciate till you are gone.

I once had a disagreement with an employer over effort, results and my commissions.

They won, I lost, so I left.

I soon found out that it was determined that only one sales person could not provide the territory coverage going forward.

As Michael Corleone famously said “It’s not personal. Only business.”

Best of luck in your future adventures.
Grok help explain to my inlaws why we don’t buy eggs from Dollar General or a certain Mart.
Although DG has an excellent beer selection in the Virginias.

Well congratulations!

I like to say when I retired I went from multitasking to multislacking.

Also multisnacking.