[Probird]

I just signed my paperwork to retire. The official date is April 1st. I’ve been off of work since the first week of December due to having a full knee replacement. So I’ve been in pre-retirement mode for a couple of months now. I’ve been a little bored mostly because I couldn’t do much till my knee healed up. It’s much better but I don’t think I could do 8 hours 5 days a week being only 9 weeks post op. The worst part will be paying for the insurance for a several years before I can get on Medicare. I’ve always said to retire as soon as you can. You never know how many years you have left to enjoy and you want to be in as good of health as you can be to enjoy it. All of my friends that are my age (60 in March), and have already retired highly recommend it but they don’t know how they found time to go to work with all of the projects to do. I guess I will find out soon. I’m trying to decide if I will go back to work till my official retirement date or just ride it out. I have an engine to put back together for the race car once I get the last part. It will be a lot easier if I have all day to do it instead of just evenings and weekends. I have a ton of projects to do soon know I won’t be bored, at least in summertime warm weather. Maybe building a garage should be my first project. Hmmm