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[Dan_Lockwood]

I turned 70 this past October 20th and am retiring at the end of this year. I've been in the plastics industry for 37 plus years and it's time to pull the plug.

Five years ago I was sitting at O'Brady's Pub & Grill in Hesperia CA while working in Victorville. I had been there off and on for five weeks on a startup at a plastics company. I figured this is going to be my five year countdown. So I told all the right people when I got back to work in St. Louis and then it was a joke of sorts, "how many more days Dan?" So I set up a countdown on my iPhone and it tells the days, hours, minutes, you get the idea.

Well I have 12 more working days to go as December 19th will be my last work day and then I'm technically on vacation until January 6th or 7th. This should get me my 2020 4 weeks vacation pay, I hope!

I've got tons of projects to work on. I still have to finish my Boardtrack racer V-Twin bike project to get money for my next V-Twin project. Can anyone say, "Harley powered car that will look similar to an early 30's MG M-Type?"

I'm not going anywhere and will continue to annoy you all as much as possible here on the forum... 

I hope you all have a GREAT Holiday Season and drive safe! Cheers!

[Twolanerider]

Dan, congrats and have fun with all the projects and the travel 

[ultrafxr]

Fantastic Dan.  Enjoy and look forward to your continuing posts.

Jerry

[Joel]

Congrats on the soon to be retirement. The count down notification sounds like good idea, I have reset my departure from the working world for a little bit [ 4 + years ]. but as long as I have my rechargeable flashlight, I can still see the light way down the tunnel.

[grc]

Congratulations Dan!  Retirement is great as long as you have something to occupy the extra time; with all the projects you do I assume you'll have no regrets at all. 

Jerry

[Phantom309]

Good deal! I'm counting down too .... only 18 YEARS to go, lol.

[GregKhougaz]

Congratulations on your retirement, Dan! Enjoy! 

[Dan_Lockwood]

Good deal! I'm counting down too .... only 18 YEARS to go, lol.

When I started my countdown I had 1825 days.  When I did my iPhone countdown app, it has the option to do days or weeks.  I chose weeks to start with as it was a smaller number to deal with.  In your case it's only 6570 days, but doesn't 938.5 weeks sound better?

Apple App store Retirement Countdown!.  Look for the palm tree logo.  I tried others, but this one does seem to be easy to use, for an old school type of guy like me...

This is my wife before I knew her.  It was in '71 and she had just made a Coors run to KC as in St Louis you could not purchase Coors.  She said it was not that great of beer back then, but if you can't have it, you want it kind of thing.

[Ghost Rider]

Congrats Dan.  I'm very jealous.  Apple doesn't have an app that can count the days until I can retire.   

[Phantom309]

When I started my countdown I had 1825 days.  When I did my iPhone countdown app, it has the option to do days or weeks.  I chose weeks to start with as it was a smaller number to deal with.  In your case it's only 6570 days, but doesn't 938.5 weeks sound better?

Apple App store Retirement Countdown!.  Look for the palm tree logo.  I tried others, but this one does seem to be easy to use, for an old school type of guy like me...

This is my wife before I knew her.  It was in '71 and she had just made a Coors run to KC as in St Louis you could not purchase Coors.  She said it was not that great of beer back then, but if you can't have it, you want it kind of thing.

Thanks for handing that to me with a little lube ... it doesn't hurt so bad now, lol. You missed your calling in life, maybe you should've been a salesman instead of plastics. You're right, it does sound better ... but it's still a long road to go anyway you look at it. You earned that retirement so be sure to enjoy it! She's sitting on all that brew in those fancy bell-bottoms & not enjoying a cold one???

[ultra13]

Congrats buddy. It is a great feeling to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Dec 91th will be here before you know it. Then it's your time! I retired  this year after 38 years in the AF. I recommend it!  lol

[MIKEYTEE]

Congratulations Dan, enjoy your retirement!

Mike

 

[danner55]

Congratulations on your retirement! I hope I can enjoy mine soon.


Apple has an app to track anything you want. It's called Final Countdown. I use it & my FRA (full retirement age) is 643 days & counting days. 65 is 278 days for me. Right now I'm counting down 6 different events. It's a good App.

[Yellow09SERG]

Congratulations Dan, hope retirement brings you the chance to do thoses things you never had time to do.

[Dan_Lockwood]

I appreciate all the encouragement guys, really I do.  I know that some of you are already retired and I'm glad you're still doing what you want to do.

I have 8 working days left after today!

I thought I may have to come back to work to collect my next year's vacation pay, but they agreed to pay me anyway!  That's another 4 weeks pay going into the first of the rest of my life.

I will keep all posted on old and new projects.

My first project finally get around to finishing will be my Boardtrack Racer that I've had on the back burner for 8 or 9 years now.  Once done, it's going to be sold to raise money for my Harley powered 4-wheel project car.  That I'm really looking forward to very much!