Yesterday was the FIRST DAY of my fourth year of retirement.
What better way to celebrate than boating, floating, reading, old cars, and McDonald's.
Karen told me Thursday that the Round Lake teachers went back to school on Friday. She used to teach next door to me for many years at Magee and is about to finish her last year of teaching.
Now, when you're teaching, your first day of retirement BEGINS the first day that everyone else has to go back to school. Yes, you retire at he end of the school year in June (or May if you're lucky), but then you start summer vacation. Since you do that all the time, it really doesn't count. It counts when THEY have to go back AND YOU DON'T!!!
In the morning, we boated over to McDonald's in Fox Lake for breakfast, read the Tribune in the lagoon and fed the ducks. Then we floated in Nippersink and Fox Lakes while listening to Bob Stroud do his Ten at Ten bit (Ten songs from a selected year at 10 AM) on 1969 in honor of Woodstock.
Read some magazines while floating.
Came home and listened to the Woodstock album, all three LPs. Then went to Borders and bought the National Lampoon Roadtrip book.
Later, I went over to Richmond, Illinois, for their Cruise In. In the past it has been downtown, but it has moved out to the Dog 'N Suds. A deejay from 103.9 FM was actually spinning records on a turntable, none of that laptop business that most deejays use nowadays.
Not a Bad Way to Celebrate the Beginning of Year Four. Retirement, I Highly Recommend It. --RoadDog
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