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7 weeks to go and I have SERIOUS short timer disease. I know it will pass, but at the moment...
Very heavy weather the last few days in the southeastern US... tornadoes up where one set of grandkids live, tornadoes a bit north of me, but....
530am - thunderstorm moving through the area, nice breeze blowing through the office, I just need to sedate the geriatric golden that I know has less than 6 months to live  Hips are failing.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Back when I was working with a lot of USAF officers, they called the syndrome FIGMO: F___It - Got My Orders. Is this a change of jobs, or actual retirement? I retired in 2016 then, last year, got a call from an old boss asking me to come back to help build an infrastructure for a new Tribe. So far it's been way more fun than retirement!
Will Rogers never met me.
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" Is this a change of jobs, or actual retirement?"
Actually both. I've mainly worked/consulted at this one place for 20+ years. The culture changed management-wise 5 or so years ago. Left a bad taste in my mouth, but the $$ was too good to walk away from. 5 years later, I'm in a better position financially, and I'm just tired of doing the same stuff. I expect to expand my local consulting to help small local businesses, etc that seem to be paying way, way too much for IT support.
One thing I'll admit too - after busting it for 40+ years, "retirement" is a hard thing to get my head around. One exciting concept is to be able to say, "I think I'll go fishing today..." and I don't like to fish, but my grandson loves it. 
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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The best bit I found was looking at the clock at 06:30 and thinking "what shall I waste my time doing today?".
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I can't do that. I relate to guys like Gene Winfield, working at 91 because he loves it.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Yep, I retired in '16 then went back to work last year. I'm not sure when I'll be ready to stop doing, if ever!
Will Rogers never met me.
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My point was that I do not have to get up at that time. I can work in my own time at my own pace.
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Same as, I'm 70 and just can't stop coding - I love it
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Simply enjoy your freedom
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this. I still have bills and what not. An an infinite supply of house projects.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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I’m in the same situation. One good thing we can do at my work is ease into retirement. Presently I have voluntarily moved to 4 day week, and I can at my discretion drop further days and slowly transition work to other people.
After working for nearly 50 years I would hate to go from a 5 day week to nothing all at once. Sounds good in theory but I fear in reality it wouldn’t be. Hence I see this as a training period and readjustment of my lifestyle for retirement.
A Fine is a Tax for doing something wrong
A Tax is a Fine for doing something good.
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The customer is willing to do that, and has said, hey, if you ever want to come back.... which was very gratifying. I'm starting to see the benefits of sabbaticals with one looking me in the face.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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I've been working for 39 years and have anxieties about dying of boredom in retirement.
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Good luck. You will love it. Play with the grandchildren, they grow up too fast. Our youngest just finished college.
Busy? you will wonder how you ever found time to work.
I did the FIGMO on my hat many, many years ago. USAF
First retirement after 28 years as employee.
Second retirement after 6 years of traveling the country setting up networks at trade shows, contractor. Empty nest so wife went along.
Third retirement after 22 years of IT/Network consulting, programming.
Fourth retirement ? still doing some surveillance camera/system work, mostly remote.
We did take time for some cruises and such.
You need something to retire to, don't just retire from.
(sitting on the porch watching the grass grow sucks)
>64
It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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IP-API.com - Geolocation API[^] is a little web service to get a bunch of info about where you're at based on your IP (or an IP you give it)
I use it for my little internet clocks to fetch the timezone since they don't have GPS.
It can return values in CSV, JSON or other formats.
Arduino already has stream.readStringUntil(',') so parsing CSV seemed trivial. For quite awhile I was doing that.
On a lark, I decided to swap it out to use JSON and my little JSON pull parser for embedded.
The resulting code is actually a bit shorter than the CSV approach. And it doesn't take a lot of RAM because it's a pull parser (like XmlReader), and not a DOM
I'm leaving it in JSON
I love when stuff like that happens.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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