What are you doing today?

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Yep, retirement is the best job I've ever had. I even like getting older. Face it, when you stop growing older, they plant you 6 feet under.

I agree wholeheartedly Jay ! I like getting older too not only for the very good reason you mentioned but because this is like a second childhood for me .

I agree. I’ve been busier retired than when I worked. Go figure. At least the busy factor is doing things I love instead of always things I have to.

You and me both Man ! Sometimes I run out of day for all the fun things I like to do .

 

[Tomsfish23 22]

I will be going to Lake George a common destination for many in the area.
This Weekend is the Adirondack Nationals car show.
Over 1500 cars from all over the Northeast.
The main road will be black by the end of the night tonight from all the burnouts.
It is a 3 day event that is all out car people stuff.
If you are there and not a car person then you are a cop~! They line the road and close it off to only show cars from 6-10 in the evening.
Somehow I made it through the road block last night without the proper stickers.
Maybe it was just the car~!

^ Prospect Mountain at Lake George in the fall^
Probably Veterans day as it is free to enter then for all.

This was yesterday;

 

[Rocky99840]

I have been just fine . Life is good and things are going okay . A pity you have to work . Retirement is wonderful !

Haha! Must be nice, I'm sure!

 

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@Rocky998 What kind of work do you do ? I’ll assume it’s a full time forty hour a week job going by your saying how tired you are .

 

[Rocky99840]

@Rocky998 What kind of work do you do ? I’ll assume it’s a full time forty hour a week job going by your saying how tired you are .

I try to keep my hours that high. But its hard too with how my manager hires new people/sets up the schedules. Its closer to 36 hrs at max. I am hired as full time though.
I work at a fast food coffee shop... I do a lot of everything there. But also I'm the main guy to take care of truck shipments that come in. So I prep the stock rooms and freezer according to the numbers currently in there and on the order sheets and then once everything arrives I put it all in where it needs to be... (just for my coworkers to use the stuff going in the wrong direction 🫩)
Today though just gave me a migraine because there were no breaks at all and a massive rush. Lol. I should take some excedrin...

 

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I try to keep my hours that high. But its hard too with how my manager hires new people/sets up the schedules. Its closer to 36 hrs at max. I am hired as full time though.
I work at a fast food coffee shop... I do a lot of everything there. But also I'm the main guy to take care of truck shipments that come in.

The best way to keep your hours up is to be the one guy they can always depend on . Be irreplaceable .

 

[Rocky99840]

The best way to keep your hours up is to be the one guy they can always depend on . Be irreplaceable .

I got sick once and the stock room and freezer/cooler became an absolute mess

 

[GaryE25 23]

I never worked in fast food, for all my early jobs. No restaurants. That was a matter of luck, but I'm glad I was lucky. My older daughter worked in a coffee shop in a large office complex, and she worked hard. The owner would check in once a week but seemed to do nothing from week to week.
I spent yesterday driving a moving van and slinging furniture, then driving 4 hours back home after. So today should be a quiet retired guy's day. I may go with 2 friends to watch some seals, or go to the suburbs to buy some kayak supplies and extra pool sand/aquarium gravel. Mabel the dog wants a beach walk or two, and so I should check the tides.
And as always, I can find fishroom projects, do some writing, do some editing work or read. Sundays are better than when I was a kid and the churches made them boring. Places and things are open, and the day's enjoyable. If you're somewhere rainy and dull, you should be somewhere like this today. It's a rare sunny Sunday!

 

[bgarthe65 82]

I did the fast foods back in the 70s and early 80s as I was a pizza maker and pizza delivery driver. In this case, I’m glad I did bc that’s how I met who would become my wife of 44 years. She was a waitress next door where we pizza people took our breaks.

 

[MattW64 180]

Popped into a small private run store to see their tetra stock. Saw a couple of possibilities that would go with my Cherrys in the 90L.

Liking the look of the Raccoon, Red Tail penguins, and Black line tetras so far.

 

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Those are nice display aquariums . Look and you will see how nice an aquarium can look without unsightly substrate . Really , I’m serious . I kid around about my bare bottom aquariums but look at these with the plants in containers . They’re very nice and so easy to maintain and keep clean .

 

[bgarthe65 82]

And I just went out to get 10 more M. bentosi (HY 511 or Candy cane Tetras). Into QT they go. Then I’ll put a couple more in with my Cardinal Tets and Candy cane Tets and the rest in with the Yellow Phantom Tets and Red Cherry Tets.
I saw some of the Tetras above by MattW, but am focused atm on the M. bentosi. They really brighten up a tank nicely. In a couple of hours, they’ll be all colored up.

 

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You guys and your Tetra’s are getting to me ! It’s been years , many years , since I’ve kept any Tetra’s and I’m feeling the pull .

 

[MattW64 180]

lol @bgarthe got me hooked on the cherries when they posted them a few months back. Now I'm also back on the Tetra bandwagon after my nano Asian stint

 

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lol @bgarthe got me hooked on the cherries when they posted them a few months back. Now I'm also back on the Tetra bandwagon after my nano Asian stint

Funny how something can get under your skin and you just have to do something about it !