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Hey, if you got the financials and stay active in yer own way, that's nothin to feel guilty ago. Congrats on your decision, it takes a lot to pull yourself away from the day-to-day grind (I'm feeling a bit of that worry myself).

To the original poster: that is definitely a great dream, and a lot of the other comments are brimming with great advice (particularly Niko, although taylshaw makes it sound like he might already have a nestegg?). Why not just save up, though, to take your own trips and be creative, rather than...

I find that my boredom coincides with my energy levels, although I'm not sure yet how they influence one another (ie, do I get bored when I'm tired or tired when I'm bored?). I will say that after working for years in the same field, you get disillusioned with life in general, you've gotten so...

Thanks to everyone for the warm welcome. Been browsing the site through this holiday week.

It's a joke, but the market HAS really changed. A buddy of mine was planning on selling his re and retiring in mid-2007...well, you can imagine how that went. At the moment I think he's holding and waiting for stabilization, which appears to be happening in some areas. I never had the head for...

Wow. Thank you for sharing such a poignant memory, Lazy. I'm new here, but this post caught my eye since I did see that PBS special. I'm glad others are reacting to the show, too...We should definitely be talking about brain plasticity issues more often. Olav23 mentioned Brain-Age...I looked...

It's incredible. Made the list of the new wonders of the world, didn't it? With good reason!

Thanks! I like me some travel as well...

It already is, in my opinion, but then it's hard to think of anything less respectable than stand-up comedy in my opinion.

Ha! I remember that Vonnegut drawing. Breakfast of Champions, right?

Haha! There's one in my area who looks like a plastic Fabio... I collect vintage folk records, a lot of early field recordings from the A. Lomax days on scratchy 78s. Still, there are worse things to be spending one's money on than American music...like modern American music, for instance...

I've always wanted to donate blood, but I've got a pretty bad coffee addiction...:) No, actually I did it a few times, felt pretty faint afterward but they did give me a free cookie of some sort, if I remember correctly.

Congrats from here, too, hopefully I'll be following in those steps soon, looking forward to relaxing and practicing my guitar licks.

Hey guys. I'll be retiring hopefully in time for the fiscal year 2009, and I'm frantic about all the necessary preparations. Still, been a long time coming. Hopefully you can steer me in a good direction. Talk soon!