scheduliberated!

 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?" ...