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After a total of 26 years seven months and 3 days of total Govenment Service as well as about 15 years of private employment, four years of hospitalization, I get to retire today, or rather on the 30th of the month. This will be my last official eight hour day of gainful employment. Somehow I have managed to stay alive, not do "in" any stupid supervisors or get run over, more than one time, in the past 66 years. If all goes well, in getting the presant house painted and ready to sell, next weekend I get to move to my new home, back to my birth place in Wyoming. What a long and strange road it has been. My Valkyrie has been my sanity saving option for the past eleven years. I plan on riding it for a few more of the retirement years also.  |
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DDT (12)
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Sometimes ya just gotta go...
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« Reply #1 on: April 28, 2011, 06:11:34 AM » |
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Congrats, Bro... you've made it! I agree, careers are sort of like adolesence in that it's a wonder any of us make it through... Anyway, you've arrived at a whole new and wonderfaul stage of life. I hope you enjoy yours as much as I'm enjoying mine!!!
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Don't just dream it... LIVE IT!
See ya down the road...
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rmrc51
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Freyja. Queen of the Valkyries
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« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2011, 06:12:33 AM » |
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Congratulations on making retirement. I'm one to two years away myself and my Valk Trike is also patiently waiting for that day. I hardly get to ride at all presently.
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da prez
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« Reply #3 on: April 28, 2011, 06:19:35 AM » |
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MAY YOU HAVE A LOOOOOOOONNNNNG AND HAPPY RETIREMENT.
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R J
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« Reply #4 on: April 28, 2011, 06:25:09 AM » |
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Good for you.........
I retired the 1st time in 86, was too young to draw a retirement, so I went to work in another profession for 10 years.
Retired the 2nd time and raised mucho hell, then I kind of slouched on my butt, and today, I'm blaming that for my pees poor health. I should have staid more active, instead of setting on my butt behind a desk fighting with the customers that came into our shop when they said we didn't do something right.
So to make them happy, we kissed their butt at 5:00 PM on a Friday night at a downtown intersection, then fixed the 2nd problem they discovered, or knew about before we got the vehicle.
Vell, effective last Monday, I sold my share of the shop to my son for $1.00. Going to kind of miss that paycheck every week but what the hay. Did payroll last night, we go Thursday to Wednesday on the time clock. Wrote my last check then.
Sure going to help my taxes come the end of the year.
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« Reply #5 on: April 28, 2011, 06:32:53 AM » |
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Good Luck on your retirement .... hope you get to put lots of miles on that Valkyrie.
What part of Wyoming ?? That has to be my favorite state .. forever West !!
I hunt out there south of Ten Sleep
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« Reply #6 on: April 28, 2011, 07:05:50 AM » |
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I wish you a good deal more than just a few years of riding your Valk.
Retirement is great. It's been 20.5 years since I retired at 62.
Rode the Valk and now the VStrom.
Enjoy the ride and the move. Wyoming is a beautiful state. I spent some time tromping the hills hunting mule deer around Sheridan.
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« Reply #7 on: April 28, 2011, 07:21:40 AM » |
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Heres to a long healthy retirement.
Heres another one.
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Aot of guys with burn marks,gnarly scars and funny twitches ask why I spend so much on safety gear
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« Reply #8 on: April 28, 2011, 07:51:30 AM » |
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Know the feeling, I retired form Sam after 23 years, and thought I just needed to work for about a year to really retire. 20 years later I hung it up fpr good. Congratulations on getting there, may you have a looooooong and enjoyable rest of your life. Sometimes I miss it a little, and then I smack myself and wake up.
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ChromeDome
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60 miles West of Chicago!
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« Reply #9 on: April 28, 2011, 07:57:27 AM » |
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Congratulations and may this next chapter in your life be long and wonderful. |
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« Reply #10 on: April 28, 2011, 08:33:22 AM » |
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After a total of 26 years seven months and 3 days of total Government Service..... on the 30th.
Congratulations buddy. I did the same last May, with 26 years, 0 months, 0 days of svs with the G. Felt like 26 decades. I am not a superstitious person, but watch your step until the 30th.
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« Reply #11 on: April 28, 2011, 08:34:20 AM » |
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Bro, congrats on making to the last day. You'll enjoy your time off as long as your Valk is running. Thought WY can be a bit windy and cold for many months of the year. What part of WY are you heading back to. I spent some 23 years in the Rawlins area. Left 10 years ago, got tired of the wind. But did like the open areas and hunting there.
I pullled the plug in 01/02/09. Walked out and never went back. 40 years in Fed service was enough.
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« Reply #12 on: April 28, 2011, 08:50:40 AM » |
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I wish you a good deal more than just a few years of riding your Valk.
Retirement is great. It's been 20.5 years since I retired at 62.
Rode the Valk and now the VStrom.
Enjoy the ride and the move. Wyoming is a beautiful state. I spent some time tromping the hills hunting mule deer around Sheridan.
I retired 4 years ago at 63 and have been enjoying this phase of life, it's great. Was going to give you a little advice, but after reading Solo's post, I'll just shut up, don't have enough experience, LOL. |
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« Reply #13 on: April 28, 2011, 09:00:03 AM » |
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One year ago today, my retirement ride with son, Scott. Nothing but riding or thinking about it sense. To bad Scott had to go back to work!!  Hope you enjoy retirement as much as I have.  |
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eat to ride---ride to eat
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Gooooooo** Razorbacks
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« Reply #14 on: April 28, 2011, 05:57:11 PM » |
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Pulled the pin on 2-13-2009. Ex over the road trucker. Don't miss it one dang iota. Way more fun to crank up my valk any time i want.  My brother goes by da prez on this board. Lives way up in northern illinois. Gonna share some wind with him this summer. No set plans-just roll with the flow. Enjoy your extremely well deserved retirement. RIDE SAFE. |
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Today is the tommorow you worried about yesterday. If at first you don't succeed screw it-save it for nite check. 1964 1968 U S Navy. Two cruises off Nam.
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« Reply #15 on: April 28, 2011, 06:27:53 PM » |
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Good for you and good luck! |
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« Reply #16 on: April 28, 2011, 07:12:39 PM » |
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CONGRATULATIONS Brovietnam!!!
I am throwing in the towel next year. The months cannot go by fast enough.
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« Reply #17 on: April 28, 2011, 08:22:27 PM » |
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« Reply #18 on: April 28, 2011, 08:44:11 PM » |
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ride safe
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"Ride Free Citizen!"
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Colin
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« Reply #19 on: April 28, 2011, 11:21:29 PM » |
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Enjoy it you have earned it. BUT be prepared to be busier than you ever were when you were working (honey do's are just part of the problem), I seem to have less free time now than I had when I was working. |
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Hoser
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« Reply #20 on: April 29, 2011, 06:15:12 AM » |
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« Reply #21 on: April 29, 2011, 04:42:12 PM » |
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Thirty-seven years down... fifteen months to go. The batteries in my give-a-damn meter are getting a little weaker with each passing month. Can't wait to join the club. sheets
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NiteRiderF6
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« Reply #22 on: April 29, 2011, 10:45:28 PM » |
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Congratulations! Enjoy your time and stay busy! You will wind up like my Dad and wonder how you ever found time for work!
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