From: TJ@noneofyour.business   
      
   On 10/10/2012 11:38 PM, Moe Trin wrote:   
   > On Tue, 09 Oct 2012, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandriva, in   
   article   
   > , Adam wrote:   
   >   
   >> Moe Trin wrote:   
   >   
   >> My parents both became active volunteers in worthy nonprofits.   
   >   
   > I am looking at several - mainly associated with AARP.   One neighbor   
   > was a landscaper, and after a year of retirement (around 71 I think)   
   > he said "screw it" and got a part-time job at Home Despot.   
   >   
   >>> (I'm also married, so that means "Honey Do"s, but we won't go   
   >>> there.)   
   >   
   >> Will she continue working for a while longer?   
   >   
   > She's also well over 65 and is still going, but she'll likely retire   
   > by mid-next-year.   
   >   
      
   My father was forced into retirement at 64 due to health reasons, but to   
   tell the truth he had been ready to stop working so damn hard for years.   
   His health deteriorated slowly, with something or other taking him down   
   as soon as he came back from the last one, until at nearly 80 he   
   couldn't come back again. I'm hoping to avoid that particular fate.   
      
   Mom never did fully retire. She backed out - slowly - from being farm   
   manager after turning the business over to me and my brother, partly   
   from her own choice and partly because I started doing more and more   
   stuff with technology she didn't understand. She still had a big hand in   
   the veggie stand, investing cash and labor, and sharing in the profits,   
   until her death at 80. Unfortunately, it was getting more and more   
   difficult to give her the quality of life she deserved, because of   
   advancing senility coupled with cancer. That last year we gave her   
   purpose, and kept her as comfortable as we could manage, but that's   
   about all we could do. Although her fate was, I suppose, better than   
   Dad's, I'd just as soon avoid that one, too.   
      
   Somehow, I think I'd rather go like a guy I heard about a couple of   
   weeks ago. In his mid-80's, his tractor rolled over on him while he was   
   harvesting his crop.   
      
   TJ   
      
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