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  1. A very small gps device that measures speed and acceleration over a specified distance. Then it puts the results on your phone in graphical format. This, of course, is just instrumentation for my race cars. I would never use it for simulated 1/4 mile runs in my full sized car.
    8 points
  2. I'm gonna buy a hammer, and smash an alarm clock
    7 points
  3. Our son will not be able to meet us in California for the race so there's a change of plans. We won't be going to the Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Laguna Seca raceway, Yellowstone or any other places along the way this year. So we will do another trip that we had on the back burner for years. A motorcycle trip with the only plan is to stop in Memphis for ribs. We will replace the race at Laguna with a race in Topeka Kansas
    6 points
  4. Aero Airedales Acres. Pre-retirement just in case I don’t make it.
    6 points
  5. 6 points
  6. Nestled in Bellingham city limits sits this park which connects Lake Whatcom with downtown with an awesome trail system. It's still February but well worth the chill... I mean tropics when compared to youze Minnesotans.
    5 points
  7. I have bread rising for dinner. Will bake it in a preheated very hot dutch oven. Crusty on the outside and chewy inside.
    5 points
  8. Remind me to come back and post my response later.
    5 points
  9. My full name is Clark Joseph Kent.
    5 points
  10. Our news was hot about the unknown new virus and there was all sorts of talk about what would happen next! Noon on March 11th I headed out to See @groupw and the Sandhill crane migration...via Sioux Falls, SD...I was on the road when the Crane Center closed Wednesday night...The cranes still migrated..but my mini vacation came with a sense of unease and a need to get home before they shut everything down. I returned home and attended a funeral..one of the last public/open ones to be held..I made a point of getting groceries and a couple of 15 pound dumbells to compensate for gym closings...just 13 days prior to my mini trip I had ponied up the $$$ to join LA Fitness...money that went to waste when 4 months later I ended my membership when the started charging me to keep my membership on hold! Work...well it got busier. For me..Covid changed my world on that vacation... And yet...the cranes still migrate.
    5 points
  11. Hey @Razors Edge, were you up my way near South Coast Plaza today???? I passed a white 4 Runner with VA tags and a pasty white long haired dude driving? Wazzat you?
    4 points
  12. March’s goal is to make an appointment with a lawyer to create a will. My last one was written for a single dad with a teenage daughter. BuffCarla has never had one. It’s time.
    4 points
  13. Financially speaking, I recommend you pay off everything before you retire, if possible. You might be surprised at how little you can get by on if you have no house or car payment. I know I was.
    4 points
  14. 4 points
  15. I had wanted to study piano since I was a kid but my parents were too poor and then I got caught up with my career, etc. I decided to study piano - starting with classical and virtually from scratch. I actually began a few years before I retired buy got serious when I retired in 2006. I got into the adult program at the world-class Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University and have qualified for 12 ACE recitals. playing Chopin, Schumann, Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, etc. I can't wait for things to return to normal: I'm going to take more piano lessons there and probably add violin - a top teacher there told me she could have me good enough to playing pop fiddle or quartet violin within 3 years. The two women in the upper right of the collage are Hyunah Yu (standing), who is a world-renowned (Carnegie Hall, London Palladium, etc.) opera grand diva who told me she was moved by my playing and Frances Cheng-Koors (sitting at far right), my virtuosa piano teacher who passed away 2 years ago. A child prodigy in Shanghai, she escaped Red China and eventually became piano dept. chairman at Peabody. At the Mozart Festival in Salzburg, Austria, she was one of the few people allowed to play on Mozart's piano. She would sit next to me, either on the same piano at a higher octave or another piano and demonstrate how she wanted me to play. She was so amazing I sometimes missed what instructions she was saying because I was so awestruck by her beautiful playing. She teased the current great pianist Lang Lang by calling him "Bang Bang" - telling him he didn't have as much touch on the keys as he needed. When he sent her backstage passes to the party after his Washington, D.C. concert, she passed them on to me and I got to meet and talk to him.
    4 points
  16. Ryan took down an old ceiling fan and installed his new fan. I held tools and gave advice when needed.
    4 points
  17. I started sleeping 8+ hours a night. It took a few months to stop waking up at 6AM. WoJSTL's gift was starting to ride with me and doing the Katy Trail with me last year. This year we are doing GAPCO.
    4 points
  18. I cashed in my life insurance and bought a boat. I used it some, but not enough, and sold it a few years ago. Really nothing to celebrate the event. We stay pretty busy, but try and work in some photo workshops, fishing trips, etc.
    4 points
  19. Roast turkey breast, whipped potatoes, steamed carrots, garden salad, and hot Lipton tea.
    4 points
  20. 4 points
  21. Hmmm... not too many people have to worry about moving a tire mounting machine. I just roll my tires on the rim with my thumbs. You must be doing it wrong.
    4 points
  22. and then afterward wonder why you did? Case in point. Both showers have been dripping. Ordered rebuild kits for the stems months ago, but never installed them. Yesterday afternoon Ryan and I grabbed our tools, turned off the water and rebuilt the stems, replaced the old knobs and now we have silky smooth stems that do not drip in both bathrooms. It was very satisfying to take a shower this AM and have no dripping showerhead before or after. And it had to be cositing me money every month to have dripping plumbing, and I was wasting a precious resource to boot. The trip to Home Depot cost me an extra $100 as Ryan had a cheesy old ceiling fan in his room that was remote control only and burned through expensive bulbs, so his room was always dark. Bought a new fan that takes cheap LED bulbs and he did the removal and install himself. All I did was install the grommets and anvils on the fan blades while he hung and wired the new fan. However, between helping with repairing the broken pipe, rebuilding the shower stems and installing new valve seats and hanging a ceiling fan, I am sure Ryan earned a few merit badges for Scouts, or at least did the bigger part of a few.
    3 points
  23. Paperwork is signed, money is transferred, all that is left is to put the last remnants in the uhaul and head home. Next time I’m down here I’m staying in a hotel. Here’s to never dealing with an HOA again.
    3 points
  24. I think he's been out on my lake all afternoon making a ton of noise too.
    3 points
  25. We paid off our first home about 20 years before I retired. We saved a lot of money. We did that. Had zero debt for many years. If we needed a car, we'd pay ourselves first, then write a check for the car. I kind of disregarded my plan when we built our new home just when I retired. We told our daughter... we are spending your inheritance, so you better be saving some money.
    3 points
  26. Every time Wo46 see a sign that says help wanted I hear....you could work there
    3 points
  27. Yeah... I've totally have screwed up WoBG's retirement. She retired about 7 years before me. I've heard "You should get a job." more than once. I guess that must be how @BR46 feels now...
    3 points
  28. Before I retired... I asked a guy I knew who retired.. "How do know when it was time to retire." He told me, it's different for everyone, but YOU will know when it's time. Sure enough... one day... I just 'knew'. I went online to the HR part of our web site, and retired. I had 'enough'. Then about 10 minutes later, my boss calls me... WTF you are retiring and you didn't tell me??? I told her.. You can't complain... I haven't told my wife yet. Both of my 'bosses' could not believe that I retired. I was just DONE.. So... you will 'know' when it's time to retire.
    3 points
  29. That's okay. Give it to him. I'll try to find something dry and tasteless for you to eat.
    3 points
  30. I'm a hard no. In that, yes I put stuff off but I never wonder why I did it. I did it because putting stuff off is AWESOME!! Procrastinators are the leaders of tomorrow!
    3 points
  31. Laguna....... Topeka, is there really a difference?
    3 points
  32. Praying for The Fleets and your fleet of caregivers
    3 points
  33. When I retired the first time in 2011, I bought a custom titanium road bike, the Seven Axiom S. When I retire again in 2026, I may get a matching gravel bike, the Evergreen. Plans could change though.
    3 points
  34. 2/28 - 16 miles on the indoor cycle, 13.8 avg, 384 calories Total of 560 miles for 2021. Of course, that is only about one week's mileage for @az_cyclist, but it's a decent Jan-Feb for me.
    3 points
  35. Nothing. Being retired and ending my daily 60 mile commute was gift enough. Also, no more flying across country and to other places.
    3 points
  36. 3 points
  37. We have looked at a cycling trip from Lake Geneva down to the Mediterranean coast, through the Bordeaux area for a month or so. But retirement is still a few years away so lots of time to pick
    3 points
  38. I’m thinking an RV. mr. is not interested. Probably a circuitous trip to Yellowstone, the Oregon Coast, the California coast, but whether there’s an RV involved is yet to be determined.
    3 points
  39. I was suddenly work-from home. Shortly after, so was my wife. I had a wife. We had four cats. I had a very different life. I have no idea what my life will be like now. While some things haven't changed, it's as if my life is an Etch-A-Sketch that someone shook very hard. You can see the traces of old lines across the screen; but it's largely blank, except I'm a lot higher-mileage than I was when my life was last like this. When I was last like this, I was physically in great shape; I wasn't mature enough to understand my life. Now I'm mature enough, but a big physical piece of me is used up. And I trust persons...but I no longer trust humanity. And I miss Charles Schultz.
    3 points
  40. Took several months for my nerves to stop being funky after breaking the bone on the outside of my hand, surgery to insert a pin, and eventual removal of the pin. Friend that has been in an airplane crash and several bike accidents, indicated that was normal. Good luck with your situation.
    3 points
  41. Santa Ana’s are blowing today so we skipped our planned road ride & did 10 on the MTB’s. Took the missus on a non technical gravel path that goes up 5 miles and then we turned around.
    3 points
  42. I was expecting that from @Parr8hed not you
    3 points
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