2025-12-04 03:06:22 KipIngram: what about a windows VM? 2025-12-04 11:00:04 KipIngram: Nice job man 2025-12-04 11:01:00 I'm hoping I have a few lumps of valuables around when I come to retire, I think my gov wants me to stop working at 70 and drop dead at 72 though 2025-12-04 12:54:46 MrMobius: It just seemed simpler to get a cheap Windows box. 2025-12-04 12:56:09 veltas: Thanks. I'll be even happier in a couple of years when the mortgage is paid off and my youngest daughter finishes colleges. I was actually going to continue to work until then, but there was a management change at the office and a new fleet of "policies" that I just didn't feel like putting up with. 2025-12-04 12:58:00 I wasn't at all the only one that was disgruntled with the changes - I had conversations with several other people that were. But I was the only one close enough to retirement to "pull that trigger." 2025-12-04 12:59:17 The new guy in charge was younger and had a lot of new responsibility thrust onto him - I actually think he was trying his best, but he was struggling and not making the best decisions. 2025-12-04 13:01:05 And he seemed to have some emotional need to prove to everyone that yes, he was the boss and what he said was what would happen. 2025-12-04 13:01:39 Except it didn't work with me becuse I just left instead. 2025-12-04 13:03:36 The really odd th ing about it (in my case) was that I wasn't even officially part of his team. I was attached to an altogether different team and my manager was in Hursley, over on your side of the pond. But he wanted to behave like he was my boss anyway. 2025-12-04 13:06:42 So, I need to keep my belt slightly tight until these last expenses fall off the table, but that ought to be ok. 2025-12-04 13:08:07 My wife's still working, and next month I'll be 63 and plan to file for US social security (our federal retirement thing). 2025-12-04 13:09:10 I need to find a new doctor, because my old one isn't on my wife's employer insurance coverage. Conveniently, though, my dentist is, so I don't need to change anything there. 2025-12-04 13:10:00 And I go to the dentist more often than to the doctor anyway; so far I've been blessed with pretty good general health. I do need to go ahead and find a doctor though, so I'll know where to go if the need arises. 2025-12-04 14:13:24 At this rate I won't be able to collect social security until I'm 70 2025-12-04 14:14:13 Oh sorry I already said that lol 2025-12-04 14:15:01 I'm glad you're blessed with good health 2025-12-04 19:35:49 We already feel like this house is too full of stuff that has accumulated over the years (basically because Madison Avenue has us so well-programmed with the idea that gifts must be perpetually given) - the thought of squnching into a smaller place is pretty daunting at this point. 2025-12-04 19:36:45 We really should gradually work on that, just in case it becomes necessary. 2025-12-04 19:59:49 My personal feeling at this stage is to just cleanse yourself of unnecessary stuff occasionally, and be a bit brutal, but for some that would probably be negative 2025-12-04 19:59:56 For me it's been positive, I like not having too much stuff 2025-12-04 20:00:11 I'll still probably struggle by the time I'm your age 2025-12-04 20:00:18 But it's just stuff at the end of the day, not you