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12/07/2007, 03:55 PM
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Retiring this Thursday
6 more days to retire, that's 4 more working days.
37 years as a construction electrician was enough. This will be the longest six days of my life. They are throwing me a retirement party on wednesday. I have started a part time business so I don't vegitate too much and I guess I will have time to change some water, it's been months. Have a great day. Paul 
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12/07/2007, 04:00 PM
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12/07/2007, 04:15 PM
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hmm...this reminds me of a song called Oney
I dedicate this song to the workin' man For ever' man that puts in a hard Eight or ten hours a day of work and toil and sweat Always got somebody lookin' down his neck Tryin' to get more out of 'im Than he really ought to have to put in. After twenty-nine long years of workin' In this shop with Oney standin' over me ... Today when that old whistle blows I'll check in all my gear and I'll retire ... The superintendent just dropped by and said They'd planned my little get together ... Then he said I'd never a made it If old Oney hadn't held me to the fire. I've seen him in my dreams at night And woke up in the mornin' feelin' tired ... And old Oney don't remember, when I came here How he tried to get me fired ... With his folded hands behind him Every mornin' Oney waited at the gate ... Where he'd rant and rave like I committed murder Clockin' in five minutes late. But today they'll gather 'round me Like I've seen 'em do when any man retires Then old Oney's gonna tell me From now on I'm free to do what I desire ... He'll present me with that little old gold watch They give a man at times like this ... But there's one thing he's not countin' on Today's the day I give old Oney his. I've been workin', buildin' muscles Oney's just been standin' 'round a gettin' soft And today about four-thirty I'll make up for every good night's sleep I've lost ... When I'm gone I'll be remembered As the workin' man who put his point across With a right hand full of knuckles 'Cause today I show old Oney who's the boss. Hmmmm! What time is it? Four thirty! Hey, Oney! Oney! Ha ha ha ha!
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12/07/2007, 04:33 PM
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Congratulations Paul! both my parents retired recently and they too have started on new adventures. I hope it's as rewarding for you as it has been for them.
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12/07/2007, 04:53 PM
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Congrats Paul.
 Yes, the last few are long days. Mine were so long I took the last one off, seeing as how it was about 25yrs. since I last blew a shift.  All the best in your retirement. From all your threads I have read, it looks like you will be plenty busy.
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12/07/2007, 04:54 PM
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Congrats! Keep moving, don't rust, do all the things you mean to do, and do 'em fast and furious!
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12/07/2007, 05:00 PM
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No more of this. Thats me in the left picture on the left Cad welding a cable on a New York garbage incinerator, great aroma in that place. Thats also me on the roof of the Plaza Hotel in the city on a day when it was 17 degrees. Thats Central park below me. I was installing those lights to light up the building. That is also the same lights I have on my reef, I had a bunch of spares.
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12/07/2007, 05:41 PM
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Congrats, Paul! Some of the (ahem, "older"
) friends I have who were in 'Nam told me stories about "short timers," the folks who would do things like hide in a foxhole for the remaining four or five days before shipping home to avoid mis-hap. Keep 'yer head down!
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12/07/2007, 05:51 PM
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Congrats Paul, on a retirement well earned
Have some fun for the rest of us!
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12/07/2007, 05:56 PM
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kfisc I know what you mean, when I was a short timer I diden't have the opportunity to hide because I had to fly all the time. My helocopter pilot on my last day when he was flying me to Bien Hoa to get on a real plane to come home decided to play games, so he flew about 3' off the ground over a dirt road and tried to kick some Vietnamese kids in the head as they rode bicycles. Then we flew a little higher like 6' and headed straight into a logging truck that had about 20 Vietnamese workers sitting on logs on it. Just before we would have crashed into it he pulled up but not before all the workers jumped off, they were not happy and neither was I. After we flew under some low bridges, while drinking a bottle of Wild Turkey he attempted to roll the thing over and tried to scare more people, we eventually got there. I jumped out and kissed the ground.
I was not thrilled because I had already been in two crashes and was not looking for a third on my last day. 
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12/07/2007, 06:16 PM
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Congratulations!
I've got another 13 years (plan on retiring at 55) and then boating The Great Loop and traveling the carribbean.
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12/07/2007, 06:28 PM
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good on you enjoy just 11750 days for me to go.
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12/07/2007, 06:30 PM
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but not a real green dress thats cruel All of the universe and I am the only one All of creation, and there's only this one of me. All of everything, and what I am now will never come again. |
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12/07/2007, 06:33 PM
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Congrats.
I have 41 years to go.
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12/07/2007, 06:39 PM
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Congrats, Paul.
 Sometimes (on my toughest days at work) I tell myself how I'll miss it all someday
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12/07/2007, 08:01 PM
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WAY TO GO MAN!! Congrats on the retirement and hope you find time to enjoy yourself!
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Only 27 more years for me!
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