OT: Butch Retiring?

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Hi Michelle,

 

> Hey Butch,

>

> I enjoyed reading about your wild night out and commend you for

> listening to the needs of your changing body. 'Tis true, " if you

> don't use it, you lose it " !

 

True it is .. on my trip to the Gila National Wilderness last summer I

climbed for hours at a time and it was a heckuva lot easier than last

night. Different kinda muscle use .. that's for sure.

 

I am not liable to be having a heart attack anytime soon cause I gave

that old ticker a workout for maybe three solid hours last night with

very few breaks. ;-)

 

> Like you, I sit at this PC 12+ hours a day. My good friend is a rep

> for Gaia Herbs and I recently helped her out doing inventory at a

> couple of health food stores. Squatting and stooping and reaching for

> almost 8 hours. OH MY. The next day I could hardly move! It was a

> major wake up call to this once very active woman.

 

Yep .. I hear you. Seven years ago I was doing a 5 mile run every other

day and starting each day with 100 pushups and 100 sit ups .. now I have

become lazy .. 2 miles has my butt dragging. I can still do the 100

pushups but I have to gut out 25 sit ups now. ;-)

 

I still SCUBA frequently but the fact is that the older folks get the

more they need to SCUBA .. for some of those in their 80s and such who

have problems with aches and pains on land .. they'll find that the

pains are not there when they reach neutral buoyancy under water.

 

> Enjoy your retirement and that SS check! It's the " American Dream "

> that many of us will never experience.

 

Thanks .. I look forward to it. I never ever had a desire to be rich ..

and though I made a lot of money with my Turkish company in the early

years I spent it all .. threw it away in fact .. because the taxes here

are over 50% so it was use it up or give it to the government. I never

regretted throwing it away on travel and the like .. good memories all.

 

Now I have what most average American folks want .. just enough to live

a fairly comfortable life .. with a steady income .. and trying to get

more just seems foolish to me.

 

And since I am drawing early Social Security .. the option of continuing

to work is not there anyway .. which I like. ;-)

 

> All the best,

> Michelle

 

Thanks much .. appreciated it is. :-) Butch

 

> Butch wrote: by the end of 2005 I will most likely fold. I'm tired of

> the business .. tired of working 12-14 hours a day .. and I am now

> eligible to draw Social Security .. which will be right about the

> same amount I draw out of the business now. All I do now is sell one

> HELL OF A LOT OF PRODUCTS at an extremely ridiculous low profit

> margin and manage to keep three people employed in Maryland. I'm not

> Catholic so the Pope is not about to consider me for Sainthood ..

> best I go fishing. ;-)