The perfect retirement

[DeepBlack]

(edited for clarity)

I'm staring at something but cannot quite make it out.
I glance over to where I keep my eyeglasses.
I do not see them there.
I get up and look at the other place I keep my glasses.
Nope! Not there either.
I grope about blindly without success,
pulse quickening with anxiety each passing moment.
"Hmmm, maybe I threw them away somehow?"
Start digging through the trash, pushing
aside yucky coffee grounds and slimey egg shells.
I press my palms against my face to stave off the
headache I feel coming on. Discover my glasses
perched on top of my nose, where they had been all
along.

[DeepBlack]

double post

[AbwehrX]

Mrs, Youre not the narrator here are you?? [:D]

Divine Right discussion and sample turn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXbhVNVta7U

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: DeepBlack

(edited for clarity)

I'm staring at something but cannot quite make it out.
I glance over to where I keep my eyeglasses.
I do not see them there.
I get up and look at the other place I keep my glasses.
Nope! Not there either.
I grope about blindly without success,
pulse quickening with anxiety each passing moment.
"Hmmm, maybe I threw them away somehow?"
Start digging through the trash, pushing
aside yucky coffee grounds and slimey egg shells.
I press my palms against my face to stave off the
headache I feel coming on. Discover my glasses
perched on top of my nose, where they had been all
along.

+1[:D]

[MrsWargamer]

ORIGINAL: AbwehrX

Mrs, Youre not the narrator here are you?? [:D]

Divine Right discussion and sample turn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXbhVNVta7U

No that is not me.
Sadly this is not me as well
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8oGa4 ... a2fc_y2wmw
Nor is she
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCENdAU ... TORZBTqt8A
And I really admire her
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1yNl2 ... pQdRuTQ4tw

[wodin]

To be able to pay my bills and keep my home warm and a small some a month to be able to spend on my hobbies plus the funds to keep my PC relatively upto date. I'm 50 in August and the feeling of mortality has never been so strong for me.

[Perturabo]

ORIGINAL: MrsWargamer

ORIGINAL: Perturabo

Getting rejuvenation therapy and becoming 20 again.

Being young again has its limitations.

Say you become artificially 20 again, after being 50. You will be a 20 something in a 20 something body, but you will still have a 50 something mind. You won't understand the normal 20 somethings. Everything they say and like and are doing will be strange to your ears. Everything you mention will be 30 years out of sync with them.

There's nothing more distressing than hearing "who is Mick Jagger?"
The Tide pod challenge completely baffles me "why the hell would you agree to do something so clearly stupidly dangerous."
"Do you realize how completely stupid your outfit looks?"
"You want to do what?!!"
"The '90s were not the oldies, ya know."
"No, I don't want to live in my parent's place."
"What do you mean they don't take paper resumes?"

If you are wondering, I speak from experience, in a way.

Well, I feel like that since I was 15, so there isn't much difference.

I no longer intentionally listen to music but when I used to, 90% of what I was listening was released in the last decade and most of it by singers younger than me. At some point in my 20s I discovered that bands tend to burn out after several albums so I made it a habit to find new musicians to listen to frequently.

[gwgardner]

I'd like to have a room large enough, and safe from grandkids, where I could lay out some of the old SPI wargames - those multi-map games like War in Europe (my favorite game of all time). I haven't been able to play one of those for 40 years.

[Anonymous]

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[Orm]

My ideal minimum is having enough money to go on without having to worry about money. Enough to buy myself the necessities of life, and a new book once in a while. And a new game when the old ones bore me.

[Orm]

The perfect retirement, on the other hand, is another story. Think I would like to hire a building firm to build a house for me. An unrestricted view out of the computer den. And a balcony for relaxing, and reading, on calm days. Perhaps in Scotland where it is close to both the sea, and the mountains. I would like northwestern France but the language would be an issue. And close enough to a village so that one could go there to eat, and shop, without the need to take the car. It doesn't have to be a mansion, but large enough to have a gaming room, and a small library.

[wodin]

ORIGINAL: Orm

My ideal minimum is having enough money to go on without having to worry about money. Enough to buy myself the necessities of life, and a new book once in a while. And a new game when the old ones bore me.

Sounds same as my wants, not asking for much just to not have to worry so much.

[Rising-Sun]

Well for me i got lucky, got my SSI like eleven years ago and i was like 42 i think and now 53 atm. I have some mental issues, thyroid problems and hearing impaired (almost completely deaf) and have no knowledge of sign language. There not very many into sign, so i pass that parts from learning it. I did get into sign when i was very young, but limited. I think my biggest issues is depression and dementia, so i need to take it easy and stay away from negative type of people, otherwise could hurt them as well myself. Wasnt easy.

I guess i got my retirement around 42+ havent been working for the communities since. Sadly just too many bullies and negative people out there. And the only thing i can find peace is this pc, doing something creative or learning new things. Play some games, meh i know killing time, etc. But aint much else i can do. For my conditions, i have limited stamina of doing things and i like going outside ride a mountain bike, but this thyroid really causes wreak to my system. Believe i am taken around 125mcg of Levothyroxine every morning. Also been told missing some of those doses can be life threaten, boy i sure hope we dont runs out of those pills. The odd parts, sometimes it work and sometimes it doesnt. But if you get tested for this and the doc told you that you inactive or overactive thyroid problems, can take months or even years to get use to that drugs. I had a hard six years dealing with this on and off, wasnt easy at all, barely be myself or concentrate.

[Lobster]

Least perfect is enough money to get by, internet access and a roof over my head. I have more than that so that's accomplished. Perfect would be a small place in the Pine Ridge in NW Nebraska. Beautiful, easier to get around than mountains and lots of hiking and biking trails. I used to go there on summer vacations. Forest fires burned some of it awhile back but most of it got left alone. No biking these days but would hike. Not as many lions as the Rockies. Lots of wildlife. Just have to watch out for aggressive turkeys. But then that's true of the internet to so...[:D]

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: Lobster

Least perfect is enough money to get by, internet access and a roof over my head. I have more than that so that's accomplished. Perfect would be a small place in the Pine Ridge in NW Nebraska. Beautiful, easier to get around than mountains and lots of hiking and biking trails. I used to go there on summer vacations. Forest fires burned some of it awhile back but most of it got left alone. No biking these days but would hike. Not as many lions as the Rockies. Lots of wildlife. Just have to watch out for aggressive turkeys. But then that's true of the internet to so...[:D]

Honest Mr Game Warden sir! The turkey was attacking me so I had to defend myself. So why waste the meat?[;)]

Forest fires may actually be good for the forest.

[Gilmer]

I always kind of wanted to get an older boat, similar to the one in the book Without Remorse (A Pacemaker Coho or something similar) and living in the Chesapeake Bay area.