[Adama]

July 25, 2008, and the day is finally here... the last day of work for one of the nicest, kindest members at PCW, and we just wanted to say:

Now you can !http://forums.pcworld.com/legacyimages/
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1! Read all those books you've been wanting to read...
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1! Pursue a new hobby...

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1! Practice your dart throwing....

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1! Go camping any time you want.... !http://forums.pcworld.com/legacyimages/
1! Sail the Seven Seas....

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1! Get better at Chess....



Or do just about anything else you want.

You deserve the Best, because YOU ARE !http://forums.pcworld.com/legacyimages/
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Wishing you many wonderful, golden days ahead for you, my friend. Happy Retirement! ! !

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"Have Horsey, Will Travel."

[piyushsingh]

Hey rgreen
Adama hasnt left any smiley for anyone else. She has captured the best ones for you. lol

I will just say Good luck to my dear friend .



Now you wont have to see those W2K's .

Now you can spend more time with your friends here on pcw.

Bear Blessings for you .



Ok , now you can stop dancing. :D

And last but not the least , another dino toy for you. Hope you would like this one also.




off topic to Adama - hey , you are an expert with the smiley stuff. I have no idea how you are able to get such good emos. I wish i could be like you in this area. URTB, :)

[rgreen4]

Adama - !http://forums.pcworld.com/legacyimages/
1! I have to agree with Piyush - you seem to have a knack for finding the most interesting emo's.

Piyush - I appreciate the Bear Blessings, as you remembered that Bears are very meaningful to me. Thanks for the new Dino. Many times, I think as I mention the old days, that my flukes are showing. Now I have a new pet.

My former co-workers treated me very well these last two days. It was almost like a big party !http://forums.pcworld.com/legacyimages/
1! although a little more reserved than this one. Going away reception yesterday, took me out to lunch today, and dinner at a good friends house tonight.

Everyone asks what I'm going to do with all my time (accusing me of going to sleep to noon). Well, I can spend more time on the community !http://forums.pcworld.com/legacyimages/
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[mjd420nova]

Rgreen: Congratulations. I understand it has been a long trip. I hope that you have plenty of things planned to take advantage of the free time you will have. Now you'll be able to do all those things you planned for but didn't have the time or energy to do while gainfully employed.

[lilxkid24]

How does Adama remember these things lol. Does she have everything marked on a calendar? Anyway happy retirement RGreen. Now you get to enjoy a paycheck without working. :^0

[rgreen4]

Yea, but I remember a friend who had a business card with his name and underneath his name the word RETIRED. In on corner No Job, in second corner No Money, in another corner No Phone and in the fourth corner No Fun. (I cleaned it up a bit).

This is the first time since I was 5 that I don't have a committed schedule that I have to adhere to. Yea, at least from Kindergarden through 9th grade I had the summers off except for the chores around the house. From the summer after the 10th grade until I graduated from college, I worked. After a certain point the Social Security Administration starts sending you a summary listing of earning by year, and from 1959 through 2008 there is only one year without earnings. I was in Graduate School and using savings and the GI Bill and going to school full time.

I have several things planned. Of course I'll still keep up my work with Scouts, only more so. I can do the things in the yard I never had time to do. I have several areas I am considering volunteering, the local Animal Shelter and the County Library branch (5 miles away). I want to do some remodelling on the house and other things. And when it comes time for relaxation, there's always the PCW Community and my friends there, plus I am a voracious reader when I have time and have for year bought books that I have not had time to read - until now.

I appreciate the kind thoughts and well wishes.

[coastie65]

Hey rg, !http://forums.pcworld.com/legacyimages/
1! ON YOUR RETIREMENT!!!! Social Security starts sending those things out annually when you reach 50. Did the Company skip the Gold Watch and give you a MainFrame for a retirement gift ? :D Oh well, nice thought anyway. I am a little late checking in with my Best Wishes although I did think about it yesterday and mentioned it on a thread somewhere. !http://forums.pcworld.com/legacyimages/
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[Adama]

hehe Thanks for the compliment, Piyush! :x

You're not too bad yourself in the Emo/Graphic department, I would say. :^0

I love your Graphic with the fade-in/fade-out green color. Very appropriate.

[Adama]

LOL As a matter of fact, I do, Kid... hehe ;)

[Adama]

Hi RGreen,

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I'm glad that we were able to celebrate this occasion with you, my friend, because you deserve it.

You're an outstanding member of our Community, and everyone here as well as outside, has benefited from your experience, your wisdom, and your genuine kindness.

For all that, and more, I say THANK YOU. You're appreciated and valued for the awesome Human Being you are.

I'm honored to call you Friend.

[rgreen4]

Coastie -

No, actually they gave me a very nice mantel clock. It's strange, but it seems that when you transfer, you get a clock. When you reach service milestones, you get a clock. When you retire, you get a clock. I also somewhere around here have an 8 day ship's bell clock that I bought in the NATO exchange in Naples in '67. Setting clocks is a pain around here!

Thanks all for the good words. If I had known you would make all this fuss, I might not have said anything. But, I really appreciate the sentiments. It is truly a strange thing this community, we have a core of very good friends, whom we have never seen. I have another e-mail friend who is also a graduate of my Alma Mater (Texas A&M), and was in the same Corps of Cadets outfit I was, he just graduated 7 years after I left. We go connected by some e-mails among the classes in between ours and ours and have started sharing stories. But, the PCW community seems closer to me and I guess it's because we share so much with everyone else.

[coastie65]

What I would like to know is who needs clocks when they are retired ? ?:| Isn't that an oxymoron or something. :D I wouldn't mind having one of those Ship's Clocks though, not one that's going to be doing the bells thing though. UPS gave my neighbor a big ol Grandfathers clock when he retired. I thought it was funny because it was delivered by FED EX. coastie

[rgreen4]

Well, the ships bell clock does chime 1 bell, 2 bells, etc.

When you order tenure gifts, you have no control over how they are delivered. I am surprised, however, that as big as UPS is they would have used a company that was not one of their clients. Reciprocity requirements, are however, illegal and have been against Federal Law for a long time. This is where you give a company a contract only if they also buy from you.

I have a friend who is a retired Postman and a Scouting friend. In fact, when I was here from 1978 to 1980, he delivered the mail to my house. When his daughter was in college, she had left something behind after going back to school after Christmas. His wife boxed it up and in order to make sure it got there in time, after his shift was over, took it to the UPS office. When he walked in they looked at him and asked him if he was lost. !http://forums.pcworld.com/legacyimages/
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[coastie65]

Hey rg, I believe when UPS ordered the Clock from the Manufacturer or dealer, they probably didn't have a clue to which shipper was used. I know some use UPS and others FED EX and some use both, whichever one is convienient at the time. I know that in most cases, they tell you who they are using so you can track the order. For instance, I know my new processor is coming by UPS Ground. coastie

[rgreen4]

That's true. I know also that if it is coming from Newegg, then it is most likely coming from UPS. Many of the large shippers not only use a particular company, the company will leave trailers in their lot to be loaded and then picked up at specified times. This is more efficient than having a driver come and try to load a 40' trailer or even to wait while it is loaded. The bring in an empy, pull it up to the loading dock, unhook, hook up to one that is full and depart to their terminal. The information is sent electronically and then the origin scan is made when the 40' trailer is unloaded at the terminal and then sorted by destination.

I also know that HP has a contract with FedEx, so whatever you order from HP will come FedEx. If it is a printer or a computer, some one must be home to sign for it, and they will not accept a signature sheet and leave it on the porch, nor will they leave it with a neighbor. I went through this once on an order when I got the notice and their was no signature sheet. When I called FedEx, the customer service agent said, "You just want them to leave it on the porch?", to which I said, we do it all the time out here. I live in the country, and to find my house you have to know where your going. Didn't help, they said that I could arrange to pick it up in Albany, Ga, 90 miles away, they wouldn't even let me pick it up in Valdosta, 15 minutes from where I worked.

Wound up taking a day of vacation. Bad thing is FedEx hits about noon, UPS hits about 6PM. Oh, well, don't have to worry about that anymore.

But they both do a good job. I have never had anything lost or damaged. I guess I am fortunate in that area.

[Number3124]

Happy retirement! I'd try to put something clever in here, but I got here to late and it all got taken. So what book's would you read?

[rgreen4]

My tastes in books varies. I enjoyed good SciFi when I was younger, especially Isaac Asimov, but I think I have read all of his. It may be time to go back and re-read them. I commented to another member that some of his early work included passages that referred to each home having a data port connected to the central computer. This was 60 years ago in some books! Of course we don't have the central computer, but we sure have the data port to the internet.

I also enjoy good mysteries, westerns and action adventure books like the Tom Clancy series. Strangely enough, I really enjoyed the Harry Potter series. For a "kids" book series, it was well written, had action adventure and mystery and while not science fiction, it had fantasy. I may have to try some of those but have never gotten into those. I guess my requirements would be what ever tells a good tale. On a scale of 1 to 10, Romance would rank about 12.

To me a good book is one I pick up and can't put down until I have finished it. When the last Harry Potter book came out, I waited to start it until Saturday morning and finished it in the wee hours of Sunday morning. Some of Dale Brown's and Tom Clancy's books are like that. Some author's are slow to start, but then really grip you toward the end.

I'm just afraid if I try to do everything I want to do around the area, that I'll be busier than when I was working. I know there were some times I'd go back to work after vacation, just to get some relief.

[coastie65]

Hmmm, I order my ink from HP and it does come by Fed Ex, but I have never had to sign for it. I know my neighbor had ordered a Dell Laptop for his Daughter's Christmas Present. I ended up having to go to Singapore on Business. I noticed an "Attempted Delivery" notice and e-mailed him about it. I ended up catching FED EX guy and told him and signed for it. I was already picking up his mail anyway. coastie

[mjd420nova]

Rgreen: Tom Clancy and Dale Brown are good reads. Might I suggest Harold Coyle and James Rollins. Some really good writers. I read an average of a book a week and swap paperbacks among a number of friends.. I've depleted the paperback shelves of new books and look through the hardbound racks for bargains and anticipate new ones coming to paperback. I must have a book that allows me to immerse myself or it becomes a waste of time as I keep reading the same line over and over. The "Dreamworks" series from Dale Brown is a good story as once you get started there's no more need to complete a character background and it makes for a quicker jump into the action.

[coastie65]

I like my mysteries ( J.A. Jance and the Anna Brady series in Particular ). I am a huge fan of Clive Cussler as he tends to blend in Historical fact with his stories.. As Far as Sci FI goes, I really got into Arthur C. Clarke and in particular the "Rama" series. My tastes are all over the chart though. coastie