Some how I got talked into going back to work...

[Diamondback]

I made a decision today.... after my current projects are done... I am going to try to retire again.





the real question is, will you guys place your bets on how long it lasts this time in weeks, days, hours or minutes. 

Think of it this way... it keeps the Honeydo List at bay, and gives you a reason to keep going. I've seen lots of Heritage Boeing employees whose sense of who they were was so wrapped up in what they did ("my work IS my life") that they dropped dead within a year or two of retirement because of losing that all-consuming "purpose." Seen something similar and disturbingly common with Mil/First Responder retirees too... the takeaway lesson is to have a second act planned and ready before you drop the curtain on your first. (BA even established a retiree volunteer org to try to help address that, the Bluebills.) Some of them, I think just give up because their spouses saw it as "the company owned you as a slave all those years, now it's MY turn" and the demands lists in retirement made slaving away on the shop floor sound pleasant by comparison. Some even UN-retired and went back because of that...

For the moment my life is similarly consumed by my mother's care needs and after her will be my gal (ten years my senior and some big medicals of her own), but the saving thing about having the calling of the historian is there are always new stories in need of recording and telling, and new facts to be found about the old and new evaluation from those facts to do.

[Big Frank]

I made a decision today.... after my current projects are done... I am going to try to retire again.





the real question is, will you guys place your bets on how long it lasts this time in weeks, days, hours or minutes. 

I give you 3 days, 11 hours, and 56 minutes before you're working again. Maybe less.

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I give you 3 days, 11 hours, and 56 minutes before you're working again. Maybe less.

I do have a house to build.   That will keep me busy for awhile.   The real question is how much of it do I want to build.  I mean some stuff I have to sub out as I don't have the necessary licenses to do.  Like I can't buy hvac stuff or tap a power pole.

The house is going to be ICF, and I already own several pieces of equipment  from a mini ex to cat 349.   So all the digging is easy.   I could go full on and make every piece of mill work in my shop.  That is always an option.   

Still need to get a plan set.   I have a good idea of what I want? Just not had time to sit down and do some rough drawings.

[Big Frank]

For a long time I wanted a 2 story house with a round corner sticking out. I don't know what it's called. But I thought it would be cool to have a spiral staircase in that corner with a fire pole right down the middle. You'd still have to walk up the stairs, but you could slide down the pole if you wanted to. Now I might be too old to have a fire pole in my house.

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For a long time I wanted a 2 story house with a round corner sticking out. I don't know what it's called. But I thought it would be cool to have a spiral staircase in that corner with a fire pole right down the middle. You'd still have to walk up the stairs, but you could slide down the pole if you wanted to. Now I might be too old to have a fire pole in my house.

I will be building it out of ICF so that would be incredibly difficult.

[Sponsor]

[Big Frank]

I saw some guys on TV, maybe This Old House, building a basement with Insulated Concrete Forms. It looks like it's faster and easier than most other ways. The blocks stacked up just like Lego bricks, then they poured the concrete in it.

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That is overly simplified but pretty much

[Rastus]

ICF requires that you for sure know where you want windows, doors, service entry, etc.....ain't easy to change once it's done.

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ICF requires that you for sure know where you want windows, doors, service entry, etc.....ain't easy to change once it's done.

This is true.


It's not real hard to make things bigger, it just is a mess if the house is completed.  Diamond wet saws make a mess.  I tried one of the diamond concrete chain saws.   It worked out.   Still a pita, but it worked better than a hand held.   Not as good as a track saw.

[Rastus]

So which ICF system are you going with?