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Retirement Strategies and Avocations
Of course, the best exercise for
retirement is the sit-up and deep breath
exercise. When the alarm goes off in
the morning, you sit up, take
a
deep
breath
--
then you go (raspberry) and
return to sleep again.
You are in transition, because you
know that old people know more about
being young than young people do
about being old. Youth is when you
were "lean and mean" and wanted the
world on
a
string. Retirement is when
you are "wheezy and queasy" and
settle for the TV on
a
cable.
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Yes, there are some positives to
retirement. You celebrate going from
being the "young and restless" to being
the "old and stressless." Berniece,
retirement from the chamber means
you don't have anything to do, you don't
start that until noon, and by bedtime
you have it only half done.
It isn't easy being retired. People
really do think you have nothing to do.
Next winter when it snows,
a
kid will
come to your door and ask if you want ·
to shovel his walk.
Stan told me this. The bank called
Stan and scolded him for all those
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