Evil Temptations

The retirement is now stretching into its eighth month, so I thought maybe it was time to sort of casually peruse a few of the online job sites. I wanted to do it in the same way that a woman will when she goes shopping but leaves her cash and credit cards at home — just browsing, thank you. Luckily there wasn’t anything interesting posted, but afterwards I felt a bit like an alcoholic who has gone into a bar and purchased a Dr. Pepper; I didn’t do anything evil, but I put myself in a position where I could have. It’s not that whoring myself out for a few buckets of cash is so awful, but going back to the corporate world after being away…

Anyhow, long story short is that for the moment the retirement continues. There’s a pile of books from the used book shops still needing to be read (if anyone has any good book recommendations, let me know), the Subaru still has a sleeping bag and comforter laid out in the back, and as of noon on a Monday I still haven’t showered. As Joe Walsh said, life’s been good to me so far.

“And I said, I don’t care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then, then I’m, I’m quitting, I’m going to quit. And, and I told Don too, because they’ve moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were married, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn’t bind up as much, and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and it’s not okay because if they take my stapler then I’ll set the building on fire… ” — Milton