So ?? Whats Next .??

34 years , UP  and Vanished like a Fart  in the wind, as they say... everyone asks - whats next,, what cha Gonna be doin ?? Travel ?  Work at a new job?

Well ,,,  I'll tell ya whats next,..

- A part time job at Norrie Point Marina - collecting Ramp fees, and selling Ice and water

- Finish the boys playroom and the Associated Bathroom , with the fancy up flush toilet..  so several trips to Yonkers.....

- You can find me any day bicycling along the Rail Trail,,, read that is I plan on  every day.  Come on and ride along,,, my usual is early morning 7 - 9 AM  or like afternoons  2:30 - 3:30pm  - passing points like the Trail head at Morgan Lake, or  Over Rocker road , then passing by my pals at Moriarty Physical Therapy, and going on to  behind HG Pages...  Ill be the FAT guy with the Grateful Dead shirt on !

- Tooling around my Yard,,, getting that grass going Green, Cementing my Steps, and fixing my Stone wall,,,

Going to Ashokan and Bowdoin Park to watch  the Eagles,,,

 

And in the Beginning,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth, And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

IF you  do not count delivering newspapers, shoveling snow, mowing lawns, raking leaves,, etc,,, then the The 1st job I was ever hired to do was in a shoe store. It was down town  Poughkeepsie,  I do not remember the name of the place, but it was near Tee Pee Dashery.  I could stock shelves and clean up ,, that sorts stuff ,, not sell shoes... Now that's not the Story with that job,, the story is that I never worked at that Shoe store. On the way home from getting that job,,,  I stopped in to see a friend of mine at a Gas station on Raymond Ave - a Chevron station across the street from Frivolous Sal's bar... the Station was right about where Zimmers jewelers is today, and although  I was just there to say hello,,the owenr of the place told me that the kid he had pumping gas quit that day and was I interested in working after school and Saturdays,,,,  I'd be pumping gas , running the Car wash, cleaning the bays,  that sorta stuff.  I worked for Dave Clossen for about 2 years... and never even went back to the Shoe store !  I had jobs in Tire and Auto places,  half assed mechanic,,, doing breaks, and shocks, front end work,,,  and eventually moved up (if you think so) to managing those places in Wappingers, Fishkill , New City, Montvale, Shrub Oak,,, until  1983 

I joined  IBM - and between them for 32 years and GLOBALFOUNDRIES the past 2 ,, I have been here  34 years,,,, a Life time...  my life time.....my  plan was to really retire at the end of 2017,,,, but GF offered a buy out ,,, lots of Salary , and Benes, to go ,, literally NOW., gone here by the 25th,,,, Could not pass it up  !   

Looks now like I will be unemployed somewhere between 24 and 48 hours,,,, I don't wanna tip my hand,, however you can probably find me at my next high tech job of Selling Ice and Water, and doing general Marina chores starting Wednesday or Thursday working for NY state..
I will say that as Cynical as I am ,,, so far - this whole thing could not have worked out more in my favor if I scripted it .

 
 

This time ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, its for REAL

WHOA - when I says WHOA ! I means WHOA !

So now its getting real -  this is whats bringing it up close and personal ...

- Form filed with HR on the April 11th

- Confirmation that my acceptance of the "Package" has been approved - 3pm Email on the 18th

- Telling my Department that I have been approved for the VSP,,, you know 2 applauded !! Funny

- My manager holding a meeting to discuss who is covering for me from April 25th (My last Day - yep - I said that - My Last Day) to May 18th when I actually will be separated from the company.

-  Cleaning out my Desk, throwing all that crap that I kept for 34 years,  that even I dont want.

-  Peers planning a lunch to commemorate the occasion, ok,,, guess I gotta go... 
   Was gonna be 3 - now I hear 20 people - Jesus wept..

I'll keep you updated in the progress as we get  closed to my RETIREMENT DATE !!!

It aint that Bad a Thang

Listen,,it  is not that bad a thing,,,, it really is not.

There comes a time in  life ,, well in most peoples lives - I don't know about you and yours ,,,, but the point is that you realize that you are never gonna be more than you  are today..not going to accomplish more that you have, not achieve much more, DO much more,,,

.  Not that it is a Bad thing to come to grips with.   No Trip to Alaska,,, no big promotion at work ,  won't ever buy  that retirement property,,, I'm not flying the Space Shuttle or Splitting the Atom, , never gonna write a  Novel, or play a guitar,  or  ..  well you get the Idea.... you are not waiting to die exactly. But the BIG stuff - the Really BIG stuff is outta reach , Physically,, financially, realistically

You are gonna be about exactly what you  (I am) today.....  and whats so awful....?  I have a great Family,,, we don't talk as much as other Families, (probably my fault)  but its a good solid Family. I have a good job,, difficult and stressful , but pays far more than a High-School graduate like me could ever think to be paid to do this,,,,, nice house,, not great , but nice, small, and easier to maintain, a small yard with some flowers and trees,,, and a nice green lawn thanks to Lawn doctor.   You realize - that at some point - you have had enough of doing what you have been doin for 33 years,,,,  and a job that you have been doing for nearly 30 of those 33,,, you want to move on,, do something else ,, live somewhere else, do something different , build something ....   Renovate something,,,   OR  do you wait till its too late,, you are too old,,, too ill,,, to infirm,   then those things that you may have thought of as Dreams when you were younger are now the nightmare  things that haunt you -

"Is a Dream a lie that don't come true,, or is it something worse?  exactly ...

So - what you gonna do ?? 
You talking to me ? Are you talking to me? you must be talkin to me cause ,I'm the only one here,,

do you know what a Vector is ?  IT is quantity possessing both Direction and Magnitude. A Plane going  100 mph  (Speed / Magnitude)  headed North by Northwest (Direction) ... so I think of this as kinda having Magnitude , BUT , but ,,,,no direction.... the moth fluttering around the light bulb,,,  you get the idea.  Moving  however , not going anywhere...  

and as Forrest Gump says,, that is all I have to say about that 

enjoy the Video,,,,

 

The Song of AIR and WATER

Did I tell the story of the women in front of me at the car wash,,, ?  that soaped & rinsed &brushed  & rinsed, &  soaped and rinsed and  and RAIN -X applied and rinsed,,, and soaped and rinsed and - OMG , what the hell I had three choices of Wash stalls to line up behind,,, and I see her rinsing ,, and choose her,, little did I know  that Rinse was the be the 1st of many !!!

Now,,, this weekend I get thru the car wash OK,, well its not even 7am,,, so not many peeps there,
Little bit cold ,, but no issue...  now I go to Stewart's to get some air in my tires,,.....   the one on 55 has a fancy inflater,, that you set the air digitally,, and then it rings when your tire reaches that pressure,,,, mad cool,,,,,   so now there is a quiz,,,, the guy in front of me in an old Crown Victoria is getting air in his tires, I am next,,,,  SO the question is how many times do you need to visit each tire ,,, and by asking the question,, you now know the answer is more than one,,,, it was three for the Backs and Two from the Fronts.........

From ROLLING STONE magazine

humm I was criticized by some of my FB Friends for posting this,  maybe hit a little too close to home ???  Guess what I am saying must be working as they are starting to get aggravated,,,

IF you did not see it ,, here it is again,,,   WTF moments from the ,,,, well  what Rump calls a news conference,,,

Here are some of the most noteworthy moments.
That time he batted back reports of chaos in the West Wing"I turn on TV, open the newspapers and I see stories of chaos – chaos – yet it is the exact opposite. This administration is running like a fine-tuned machine."  I am trying not to laugh out loud


That time he confirmed the veracity of the leaks that lead to Michael Flynn's resignation"The leaks are absolutely real. The news is fake because so much of the news is fake."


That time he couldn't say Flynn lied"The thing is, he didn't tell our vice president properly, and then he said he didn't remember ... that just wasn't acceptable to me.

That time he characterized the rollout of his travel ban as "smooth""We had a very smooth rollout of the travel ban; we had a bad court."

That time he called the country of Russia fake news
"Russia is fake news. Russia – this is fake news put out by the media. The real news is the fact that people, probably from the Obama administration because they’re there, because we have our new people going in place, right now."

That time he denied knowledge of whether anyone from his team colluded with the Russian government during the campaign"Nobody that I know of. How many times do I have to answer this question? Russia is a ruse. I have nothing to do with Russia. Haven't made a phone call to Russia in years."


That time he bragged about not being a bad person
"And I'll tell you what else I see. I see tone. You know the word 'tone'? The tone is such hatred. I'm really not a bad person, by the way. No, but the tone is such – I do get good ratings, you have to admit that – the tone is such hatred."


That time he compared the price of drugs to that of candy bars"We've ordered the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice to coordinate on a plan to destroy criminal cartels coming into the United States with drugs. We're becoming a drug-infested nation. Drugs are becoming cheaper than candy bars."

That time he promised America and Russia would have a nuclear holocaust "like no other""We're a very powerful nuclear country and so are they. I have been briefed. And I can tell you, one thing about a briefing that we're allowed to say, because anybody that ever read the most basic book can say it, nuclear holocaust would be like no other. They're a very powerful nuclear country, and so are we."

That time he mused about attacking the Russian vessel lurking off the coast of Connecticut"The greatest thing I could do [politically] is shoot that ship that's 30 miles offshore right out of the water."

That time he conceded his oft-repeated line about having the "biggest electoral margin since Ronald Reagan" is a lieNBC reporter Peter Alexander: "You said today that you had the biggest electoral margin since Ronald Reagan – 304, 306 electoral votes. In fact, President Obama got 365 in 2008."
Trump: "Well, I'm talking about Republicans."
Alexander: "President Obama 333, George H.W. Bush 426 when he won. So why should Americans trust..."
Trump: "I was given that information, I was just given it. We had a very big margin."
Alexander: "I guess the question is: Why should Americans trust you when you accuse the information they receive as being fake, when you're providing information that is not accurate?"
Trump: "Well, I was given that information. I was, actually, I've seen that information around. But it was a very substantial victory. Do you agree with that?"
Alexander: "You're the president."
 Now that is Serious Leadership!


That time he explained uranium"We had Hillary Clinton give Russia 20 percent of the uranium in our country. You know what uranium is, right? This thing called nuclear weapons, and other things. Like, lots of things are done with uranium, including some bad things. Nobody talks about that."


That time he offered a nuanced critique of Hillary Clinton's record as secretary of state"Hillary Clinton did the reset, remember? With the stupid plastic button that made us all look like a bunch of jerks. Here, take a look. He looked at her like, 'What the hell is she doing?' With that cheap plastic button. Hillary Clinton. That was a reset. Remember it said 'Reset'? Now if I do that oh, I'm the bad guy."

That time he offered a nuanced assessment of his own performance at said press conference
"I'm not ranting and raving. I'm just telling you you're dishonest people."

That time he grew tired of all the tough questions
"I want to find a friendly reporter."

That time he was asked about Melania's role as first lady
"That is what I call a nice question. ... She – like others, like others that she's working with – feel very, very strongly about women's issues, women's difficulties."

That time he responded to a question – from a Jewish reporter – about the uptick in threats against Jewish organizations"OK, sit down. ... So here's the story, folks. Number one, I am the least anti-Semitic person that you've ever seen in your entire life. Number two, racism – the least racist person."


That time he assumed a black reporter would be friends with black members of CongressApril Ryan: "When you say the inner cities, are you going to include the CBC, Mr. President, in your conversations with your urban agenda, your inner-city agenda?"
Trump: "Am I going to include who? hahahaha
Ryan: "Are you going to include the Congressional Black Caucus and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus?"
Trump: "Well, I would. I tell you what: Do you want to set up the meeting? Do you want to set up the meeting?"
Ryan: "No, no, no. I’m just a reporter."
Trump: "Are they friends of yours? Set up the meeting."