tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18452695.post9019304515678430091..comments2023-10-31T07:00:30.627-05:00Comments on Lost in a world awhirl: The "i's" are dotted and the "t's" are crossed!alanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06013341654649926300noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18452695.post-82275705342605954892008-05-01T10:50:00.000-05:002008-05-01T10:50:00.000-05:00Do what you've got to do to get out of there! Your...Do what you've got to do to get out of there! Your health is worth more than all the money in the world. Having lost mine (and now thankfully being ok), I appreciate that! You don't know what a blessing it is until you lose it! <BR/> I don't think with how things are at the moment, many of us can bank on the future (quite literally) being what we thought it might be. <BR/>I have a 401k that I don't have all that much confidence in.Chandirahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11629463765622067086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18452695.post-91107011020302877562008-04-27T12:03:00.000-05:002008-04-27T12:03:00.000-05:00I know you will enjoy this next chapter.I know you will enjoy this next chapter.Dr. Debhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06340730498047128203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18452695.post-76746983858753230222008-04-25T18:50:00.000-05:002008-04-25T18:50:00.000-05:00Good for you Alan..more time for fishing..More tim...Good for you Alan..more time for fishing..<BR/>More time for you and Dottie to travel.<BR/>She is a lucky lady..Green teahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01905946265342284416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18452695.post-21771676253608467572008-04-25T07:55:00.000-05:002008-04-25T07:55:00.000-05:00Awesome! Wish I could retire...at 30! lolAwesome! Wish I could retire...at 30! lolSassyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02599624467609274837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18452695.post-91558581777046764162008-04-24T12:49:00.000-05:002008-04-24T12:49:00.000-05:00Yay! :-)Yay! :-)MBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14515233228776181123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18452695.post-44632943926783859532008-04-23T18:58:00.000-05:002008-04-23T18:58:00.000-05:00timing is everything! It looks like your timing is...timing is everything! It looks like your timing is darn good...<BR/>I am so happy for you!mckaithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05593832228754343289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18452695.post-82557520404499420132008-04-23T16:26:00.000-05:002008-04-23T16:26:00.000-05:00I share these views my friend. There's never a 'ri...I share these views my friend. There's never a 'right' time... always a whole bunch of reasons to not do what instinctively you think you must do. Now you can get on with the rest of your life eh hon?<BR/><BR/>Thanks for all your kind words as ever :-)<BR/><BR/>I tagged you by the way...Johttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17356965133404249244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18452695.post-54807820199112473522008-04-23T16:21:00.000-05:002008-04-23T16:21:00.000-05:00thank-you for the comments alan. each one does giv...thank-you for the comments alan. each one does give to me, and nourishes me...<BR/>many smiles.<BR/>j.jlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09067395696795880324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18452695.post-52782137694209938362008-04-23T00:09:00.000-05:002008-04-23T00:09:00.000-05:00I have faith it will work out for you. You and yo...I have faith it will work out for you. You and your wife ooze good spirit and kindness so it just has to work out the way you want and need it to!!!<BR/><BR/>Hugs from blogland!KellyNerdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12739781265203446014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18452695.post-57828835906651437742008-04-22T18:05:00.000-05:002008-04-22T18:05:00.000-05:00Alan,I can't say it enough.You will never regret r...Alan,<BR/>I can't say it enough.You will never regret retiring early. A new chapter in your life is all.HARhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17498133340768504020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18452695.post-55690827750614296082008-04-22T11:45:00.000-05:002008-04-22T11:45:00.000-05:00Thank the Gods! I'm so, so, so glad you got thing...Thank the Gods! I'm so, so, so glad you got things taken care of, and it looks like you did it just in time!!!<BR/><BR/>*big squeeze*CrackerLilohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18176388186521154104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18452695.post-2521982182534770792008-04-22T09:27:00.000-05:002008-04-22T09:27:00.000-05:00I retired early (at 52). I have never regretted no...I retired early (at 52). I have never regretted not staying three more years and getting a bigger pension. It is truly liberating, to walk away and not look back.robin andreahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13390482190562312928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18452695.post-83765529859908468032008-04-21T18:51:00.000-05:002008-04-21T18:51:00.000-05:00I hear ya buddy, see, I could work fourteen more y...I hear ya buddy, see, I could work fourteen more years, and then retire if I wanted to. That would put me in with thirty teaching years, but I'm going to do the eighty and out, that's my age plus my years of experience equaling eighty and that will happen in nine more years, when I'm 56, and honey I'm outa there. It will mean retiring on much less a month, but what the heck, I'll be happy to do it.<BR/><BR/>I'll miss the kids, cause I really do love hanging with them, but there are a lot of political things I wont miss at all.<BR/><BR/>It almost feels too good to be true doesn't it? You've worked hard Alan, you deserve to enjoy life and mellow out some. xxfineartisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03004913358409783650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18452695.post-35232129568988045072008-04-21T18:38:00.000-05:002008-04-21T18:38:00.000-05:00Hear hear!Hear hear!Calamity Jenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00089505327332329817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18452695.post-8184778717608749502008-04-21T18:32:00.000-05:002008-04-21T18:32:00.000-05:00It WILL work out.There's never a "good" time to go...It WILL work out.<BR/><BR/>There's never a "good" time to go, just like there is never a "good" time to call the mother of three children under the age of four :-)<BR/><BR/>You're ready, and that's what counts.<BR/><BR/>Worse comes to worst, you might find that absent the daily grind, you only truly <I>need </I> twenty-five cents on the dollar to live, because you'll be living HAPPY.<BR/><BR/>Time to work at something that's <I>fun</I> and interesting, rather than working at something that pays the bills...<BR/><BR/>and time to take those beautiful grandkids fishing...<BR/><BR/>You're an enviable man, Alan, doing what you <I>want</I> and <I>deserve </I> to do...<BR/><BR/>Nothin' but adventures ahead of you...<BR/><BR/>What could be better than that?Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07802695378617927299noreply@blogger.com