Yeah, that'll be my retirement date at 68.
For
CINCLANTHOMEs birthday also in June we'll be in
Atlanta to see the Simple Minds, Soft Cell and Modern English.
The next day we will be going to the
Atlanta Aquarium which is now I believe the largest in the country. When we were last there, it was in preparation for a major renovation and expansion done a few years back.
It was awe inspiring to sit in the theater looking at one of the largest tanks in the world and seeing the 2 Whale Sharks swimming around with some other fish.
I didn't have a care in the world watching them.
We are certainly looking forward to that!!
Halifax in Oct. as noted for our
39th never got to there as I just stayed in Dartmouth across the river where we were moored on both port calls, we made there when I was on the
NEBRASKA.
I understand they have a Military Tatoo Pipes and Drum Corps
ALMOST as good as the "
Black Watch" in Edinburgh.
For our
40th we'll book an MSC Cruise to which if the dates work out, we'll "
crack open" what was in Oct. 2016 a
12-year-old bottle of Bushmills we bought at the distillery. They personalized the label to mark our 30th anniversary and were told at that time you could only buy it in Ireland.
On the
very rare occasion I prefer a
Tullamore Dew for "Beer" it's
Smithwick's Red Ale (Prefer it to Guiness) or
Innis & Gunn aged in a Bourbon, Whiskey or
Rum Oak Casks (As I had with dinner Sunday.)
If it's
NOT in a bottle
I won't buy it. My degree is in Hotel and Restaurant Mgmt. when an Associate one still mattered. Started at age 13 and would end up with
14 yrs. in the field to include my last 4 on active duty on a not to interfere with my military responsibilities. There were many times I would have to call off due to an operational situation, they
NEVER said a word about it and the staff were at my retirement.
Bottomline is a
bottled Beer or Ale if stored in the back of your Refrigerator will last over a year and taste as fresh as you if you had it on the first day.
CINCLANTHOME will tell you I can make a
6-pack last a year or little more. I buy the best I want at the time and can say I've had both of the above from
every continent.
I have something called "
TYPE II" and I have to respect it when I have a drink besides all the rest of it. 8 months before I retired is when I found out in
March '02.
It's the
small things in life I
really appreciate such as a Full or Near Full Moon anytime but especially when I walk my 23 Magazines I check at the end of my watch on Saturdays (My Friday.)
I started as a News Paper Delivery boy at
10 years old. I grew up in the part of NY State where it
SNOWS. Up at
0400-0430 to sort my newspapers and in my
75 homes (The paper actually had you apprentice under the person responsible for the route.) before my second year that went to 125/30 homes seven days a week. During school I had to have a bigger breakfast and make the bus by 0700.
I actually had a young MA (Navy uniformed Police.) a few years back ask me "But Mr. Conklin how could have delivered your newspaper if you weren't old enough to drive?" Nice person as I recall but however obviously it was a generational thing which here deserves a 
I'll be ready for JUN 2027 I'll need to keep the mind sharp (Love reading real books.) and will definitely need to keep physically active as well.
One of my co-workers just turned 70 he's afraid to stop as he's a person who that it's "Retirement to the Rocking Chair to the Grave" I say ONLY if you let it be that way.
Bored you guys enough sorry about that. It's the "little things in life" that will touch you and provide the balance needed for the other things going on in your life.
At work one of these things beside the Moon is in the last few months I'm seeing ID cards that are expiring in 2027 THAT'S MOTIVATION FOR ME.
Oh, before I forget TANKS HAVE GUNS (Just not Innis & Gunn.).
Regards,
Pat
