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  H ere's what I'll do here. I'll post at least every year. Most of my journaling/blogging can be found at my primary blog, but this one is specifically dedicated to revising the world's understanding of what it means to be (the clearly diminutive term) "retired." I prefer a term I am proud to have coined, "scheduliberated." Okay, it's my 73rd today and I'm going fishing in a bit. Just got led back to this (now understood as an) "annublog" by a post about a teacher friend's retirement from her teaching career and I reread the single post here (cross-posted at scottmerrickdotnet ); and I'm still feeling pretty good about it. I will have completed my first year of "retirement" in a couple days. In a couple days after that, I fly to Spain with my lovely lovely for over two weeks of luxury travel and culinary and culture exploration (shoutout to RH Travel ). NOTE: If you're a web trolling miner for thievery, we hav...
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Welcome to scheduliberated!

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 Hi y'all,  I'm of course over at scottmerrickdotnet , have been for a while, but I want to share here some things, many of which will be cross-posted from that longstanding website, here. For now, take a gander at this, originally shared there, May 26, 2022: Scheduliberated!  Happy birthday to me, celebrating 72 trips around Old Sol. AND happy retirement, only 2 days away as I write. I want to say a few things about retirement, or rather about the generally accepted social descriptor for it: " retired ." Thinking about actually  being  it, I began letting friends and colleagues know my plans a month or two ago. It took a good long while to jump through the hoops a "retiree" needs to master, but I was generally feeling pretty darned good about it all. Then I began noticing:   Nearly everyone who discusses it with me brings a number of negative connotations into our communication.   "What are you going to do?" "Won't you be bored?" ...
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