Tag: Retirement
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What I won’t miss
While there are things I will miss, there are some I will not. Chef among them is the daily struggle with my PC. It’s a source of frustration and bewilderment. How can a technology that has been in use since the early 1980’s continue to impart such a negative experience? Yet having said that,…
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The week of Lasts
in: EventThis is my last week before I retire. Each day will be a last; the last Monday; the last Tuesday. Friday will be both the last Friday and the last day of work. I will have my last governance meetings. My last one-on-one meetings. My last team meeting. My last vendor lunch. Lasts seem so…
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Shortest Day of the Year
Today is the shortest day of 2014. To be precise, the sun will reach its most southerly declination of -23.5 degrees at 18:03 Eastern Time today. Today there remain just 19 days until my prelude to retirement. In retrospect, I realise I have planned poorly as these remaining days will be the shortest of the year. Rather,…
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24 Days
This morning when I arrived at the office I hung my coat on my coat hanger which I then hung on the coat hook attached to the door of my office. The hook gave way. My coat fell to the floor. It would be easy to draw deeper meaning from this event. So I will. …
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42 Days
in: EventAs I begin to look forward to the coming days and months I have found myself reflecting back on how I got here, these final steps to retirement. This path started many years ago initially by starting a savings plan. Eleven years ago I began preparing to contemplate what I would do. It is now, in…