Congrats! If I knew that I would enjoy retirement as much as I do, I would have retired much earlier.
February 27, 2026, 08:07 PM
oddball
Congrats, welcome to the club!
"I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965
February 27, 2026, 08:14 PM
Doc H.
Congrats! Someone's chop here, the secret of the fox: "One sees clearly only with the heart; what is essential is invisible to the eye." True in life and retirement. My third retirement, and I find I'm almost as busy as when I worked and you can still do what you love on your schedule.
"And gentlemen in England now abed, shall think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin's Day"
February 27, 2026, 08:18 PM
TigerDore
Congratulations on entering your next chapter!
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February 27, 2026, 08:27 PM
old rugged cross
Congrats, you earned it. Now, go enjoy it.
You control your own destiny. That is a very powerful thing!This message has been edited. Last edited by: old rugged cross,
"Practice like you want to play in the game"
February 27, 2026, 08:36 PM
Pipe Smoker
quote:
Originally posted by Bytes: <snip> When I got home I started working on the "Traveling Sales Person" problem with a program. <snip>
Is that similar to “The Seven Bridges of Königsberg” problem, solved by Euler?
Serious about crackers.
February 27, 2026, 09:21 PM
Pipe Smoker
^^^^^^ Ah, I found it: “The Traveling Salesperson Problem (TSP) is a classic computational challenge that seeks the shortest possible route visiting a set of cities exactly once and returning to the origin. As an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem, it is difficult to solve, as the number of possible routes grows exponentially with the number of cities.”
I’m thinking the Simplex algorithm.
Serious about crackers.
February 27, 2026, 09:30 PM
1s1k
Congrats. I retired at 55 and my wife retired at 57 3 weeks ago. Just got back from our first “retired” trip last weekend.
Glad you enjoyed it. My wife had a much more stressful job than I did and she said “I could have done this video”. She said this is pretty much how she’s been feeling for too many years now.
She has been watching quite a few of his videos. He really does hit a lot of points on how most of us are feeling about retirement.
March 01, 2026, 07:31 AM
Warhorse
Congratulations, Bytes!
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March 01, 2026, 10:29 AM
ShouldBFishin
Congrats! Enjoy your retirement!
I've got another 5 to 7 years left on the keyboard...
March 01, 2026, 12:01 PM
Fly-Sig
Congratulations! There is a definite adjustment period of about a year, so don't get worried about what you "should" be doing or if you have found the right purpose. Just chill and take each day for what it is.
You will notice all the old people in the grocery store and Wal-Mart when you go shopping in the middle of a week day...
March 01, 2026, 12:12 PM
Mustang-PaPa
Good for you on retiring. Now go and enjoy your time.
March 01, 2026, 04:58 PM
Rey HRH
Congrats. If you think about it, I bet you’ll find you can be as busy as you ever were but you can do so now on your own terms. As the retirement years have gone on, I found I have to be even more organized because there’s more to organize between things to do and schedules.
I’ve been using OneNote and Outlook tasks to manage my to do list and I maintain Google calendar. I just started using AI as a productivity tool
"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.
March 01, 2026, 11:00 PM
coloradohunter44
Congrats. It will take time for things to feel normal. Keep yourself busy.
"Someday I hope to be half the man my bird-dog thinks I am." looking forward to 4 years of TRUMP!
