On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:20:25 -0500, "Eisboch"
wrote:


"jps" wrote in message
.. .

Just did some research and I guess it wasn't hosting the Mac OS but
had uploaded a series of files to make linux look like the Mac
interface. I'm guessing since Mac apps are built to run on a unix
kernal, that they'd likely behave under linux but I've not
experimented.

That's the sort of thing that'll have to wait for retirement. Maybe
that'll be my lint.



Don't count on it. If you are like many, here's the phases of retirement
adjustments.

Phase I

Guilt. You wake up every morning at the same time as when you were working
60-80 hrs a week and after performing the three "S"'so , you realize you
have nowhere to go. You start contacting your former associates to make
sure everything at the company is ok. As time goes on and you realize the
company is surviving fine without you, another sense of guilt starts to
creep in. What's your purpose now?

For me, this phase lasted the better part of 3 years.


Phase II

You start to relax a bit. The gain level of working and/or running your
business has been turned down considerably. You start to realize that
there's more to life than being consumed with a business that frankly was
turning into re-runs of past experiences. You start to become out of date
with respect to current technology and you really don't care. Your hair, if
you have any, gets longer.

Occasionally new business ideas enter your head but are quickly squashed
when you start thinking of all the start-up issues involved. You start
exploring and doing things that you never had time to do before.


Phase III

You discover the properties of clothes dryer lint.

Eisboch

Makes sense. Phase III made me laugh. The upside down hockey stick
graph.

I'll be lucky to retire. As it stands right now, the plan is to go
directly from retirement to assisted living.

You might consider mentoring guys like me who are making the mistakes
you learned to avoid. May keep that graph from turning south too
quickly and help some of those entrepreneurs who our country will
depend on for new jobs and tax revenue.

Bush 41's estimate of a thousand points of light needs to be shifted
upwards by an order of magnitude.