Congrats Bilgerat!

[Jim H]

BilgeRat:
Congratulations on your retirement. I'm now into my 14trh year of retirement and it gets better every day. Enjoy it you earned it.

 

[Ty]

I went that route too....retired Navy...
Various jobs that I able to rollover my IRA and finally made it to 65 !!!
Now just kickin' back

Good on 'ya! I "retired" February of this year so it hasn't really sunken in just yet.

 

[BilgeRat]

And just wait till you have to deal with SS and Medicare; you think waiting for the Elio is frustrating? You ain't seen nothing yet


<And a note about Medicare, you HAVE to take it. If you don't, and you sign up for it later, they back change you for not taking it when it was first offered.>

Im not too concerned about it. There's an SS office south of us that serves a smaller area and is never too busy, and I even know a few of the folks that work there, so this will be MUCH easier that dealing with the office in the western burbs that we normally would. Besides, what do I have but time?

 

[Ekh]

Congrats! I hope you are moving towards something more than just leaving work. Follow a dream, like that dude Paul we both know.

 

[vietvetx2]

Congrats Bilgerat. Is your wife prepared to have you home and not on the river?
The best part of being retired is that you can now do things in the middle of the week when everyone else are working like going to the Detroit Auto show and see the Elio display on a Tuesday!

 

[BilgeRat]

Yah, she's ready. I made her life when I told her I was getting out early. We've already taken advantage of that little midweek perk; the Terracotta Warriors display at the Field Museum will end soon, so last Wednesday, we took the train into Chicago and headed over to the museum. It wasn't empty, but it sure wasn't crowded, either!

 

[wizard of ahs]

And it's always great to hit the restaurants in the OFF hours