jimmuller wrote:
Thank you. Yes, retirement is recent, May 1. I gave them 5 months notice so they and I knew it was coming. Retirement at 77, not bad. I'm not quite sure yet what to do with myself but so far my sweetie hasn't let that become a problem
Thank you too for the pics comment. In fact, Straight Out Of Camera is what I try to do most of the time. Capture what I see that might be worth sharing. However IMHO that Post 91 pic on the MCRT is bad composition. The post is just static, dominates the pic and hides of the adventure of the trail. The bike is barely visible. (On BikeForums.net readers want to see the bike. "A picture is worth a thousand words, but only if taken from the drive side.") I just propped up the bike, grabbed the camera, stepped to side carefully, and snapped. I wasn't thinking. It is what I saw at the time but not something I'd want to hang on a wall and look at every day.
That's awesome. You're fresh from the the retirement oven. Congratulations, and you went the extra mile with your work tenure.
Post 91 pic, with your description of the bike suffers the sins of familiarity. You've had the bike for 50+ years and it's easy to take it for granted while the people that saw it on bikeforums(I presume) marvel at the fact that someone still has that bike. Therefore, you owe all of us a George-esque bike picture (high bar, that). I remember Peugeot bikes, and Raleighs. That's about it .
Kind of a parallel story about familiarity. In '95 as I departed University, the students at our res gave us nice pens with the res name and year engraved on it. Didn't think much of it but it was cool. Just not that much of a pen person. Over the years I've been given a pen here when I reached a blood donation milestone, and just put them away, but never given away. Last month I got two pens as a 30 year anniversary from work but only received them last week because they went to be engraved. Why did I spent a good part of Sunday looking for my other pens(all same make, Parker). When it's just one, it was just a pen with some sentimental value. When I have five of them, well maybe I must give them pride of place. I couldn't believe that 31 years later the pen just wrote from the first click.
