How about Doc Ball skateboarding in his 90's!sure.
fine line though.
70 year olds acting like teenagers is a bad look.
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How about Doc Ball skateboarding in his 90's!sure.
fine line though.
70 year olds acting like teenagers is a bad look.
Why should they give a flying fuck what others think of their look70 year olds acting like teenagers is a bad look.
Age is just a number, same as that fictional number you guys set in your head before you feel you have a right/ability/will to get busy living.Why should they give a flying fook
My experience with trust funders:
1) In high school, 10th grade, dated daughter of a marine shipping firm operating out of both Seattle and Portland. (For 16th birthday, she had a party on a converted tugboat. Was a grand catered affair, and there was dancing to the latest top 40 hits while hopped up on sugary beverages on bow of the main deck while a few chaperones cooled it in the con.) While she was not floating in money at age 16, she definitely would come into it later.
Then she got grounded for a month because a neighbor told her mom that she had a boy over while mom was out. Her mom called my mom and my mom asked me about it, and like a dodo, told the truth. My mom told me to call her mom and tell the truth, and so I did (while my mom listened on the other line).
While she was grounded, I met Anna at a high school football game. Someone told the shipping magnate's daughter and she called me up and told me to get bent.
I didn't even get to say, "We met at a football game with a bunch of friends, what do you thnk happened?"
When my dad found out that we broke up, he was, "That's a shame, you had a shot at easy street."
Sigh.
2) Am a year in SF and long term girlfriend decides the co-worker is the better bet, so she breaks up with me.
Meet a gal via work friend.
At some point she asks me what I think of her selling some avocado orchards around Escondido that she has. (notice the 's')
"How do you own orchards?
"Dad is a founder of a semi-conductor firm. He diversified when they went public. For tax reasons, he gifted them to me."
Time moves on and it didn't work out.
Am still friends with her and her husband, and will occasionally visit them when I ride the bike up to Twin Peaks and will occasionally have have coffee and breckie snacks with them while looking out to Mt. Tamalpais, GG Bridge, Angel Island, downtown, Bay Bridge.
Boy, I miss that view.
So my take is: they are an unreliable source of monetary fulfilment.
PS
1 What did I do in my previous life to have such crappy bosses?
2 Glad I figured this out on my own.
PPS
1 Anecdotal tales of woe give this thought a big "Nuh-uh."
2 Peace of mind can be priceless, so if money isn't the bigger slice of the pie......
3 Careful your wifey might be been think the same thing about you.
And don't forget to bring cookies, brownies, cake etc for the nurses and orderlies who will be caring for her. that was a HUGE game changer for my wife's mother. My wife always made sure to grease the wheels with goodwill thank-you treats, and the staff at the state nursing facility treated her mom really well. they may have done so anyway, but i bet the cookies and brownies with every visit went a long wayDon’t hesitate to put her in a home. Regardless of the down side of a loved one being in a home, it is nothing compared to the havoc in your home if you try to care fore her. If married, your marriage will suffer eventually. You may transfer your anger towards your loved one unintentionally. Check out the local homes, find one near by and do it. Visit, get the doctors OK for her to drink a little wine, bring her some wine and cheese weekly. Be positive with her. Try not to show impatience or anger, get her out in the car if she’s mobile. It will work if your patient and you love her like you would want to be loved when its your turn and, hope your kids are kind as you hope to be…
Fookin hell if there’s a number I won’t surpass, it’s 60 years oldAm I the only one who sees "early retirement" as like, 50, as opposed to early 60's?
Not saying this is necessarily you, but this is a good perspective. A lot of people get addicted to a lifestyle and don't look at the cost:Yeah that’s my dilemma. I love all the things I get to do now, but I have to work 46 weeks a year in a high pressure position to afford it all.
maybe the number really is 8-10 million to retire and still travel and surf and have adventures and live comfortably if I were to stay in the desirable coastal US
wow, there’s no way I’d be mentally ready to retire in my early 50sAm I the only one who sees "early retirement" as like, 50, as opposed to early 60's?