I'm doing good, thanks for asking. My health is good, the wife's health is good, the kids are doing good (the youngest has been out of the house for 18 years now, but their well being is still critical to mine). We have more contracts and are making more money than ever in my life, which equates to running in place the last couple years, but that's better than it could be. Nothing critical is broken in any vehicle or house.

If it weren't for the winter blues, I'd say I'm great. By March, I *will* be great.

I went through a lot of self imposed fears over job performance for six weeks. New role, more responsibilities, etc. Annual review—more concern within my heart.

Reality? I am safe, secure, and appreciated. A mbig difference from my self assessment. Lesson learned.

Job does not define me. At the same time, job puts food on the table, and provides for a retirement income. All is well.

Thanks for checking in on me.

Be a lot better when I can leave this communist filth behind. Originally it was 2-3 years which I can do standing on my head, and why we chose the rental we did. We are staring at 2-3 more and it's serving time for me. I want to get to the mountains up north. Already got my place, 6 hours away. Don't feel the stress there, everything is better. Million dollar view in the Cascades.


Other than that stuff I keep pretty content in general. Pretty resilient all around. Weights, guns, beers, dam kids, wife.

My gun budget took a hit this year, so ignoring ammo sales is one of my biggest problems.

Straight up, very well. I thank you for asking.

The year ended with a nice increase in gross business income. Lots of expenses, too, but a record year.

Coming up on 10 years married to Shirley and that’s better every day.

I still miss Marky living with me but he seems to be doing well at his new place even with the lack of communication with the staff.

Just a side note. This is a nice, mostly upbeat thread.

A good idea posting this Para. I know it's corny, but we are a community here and hearing from the members is great.

On the uptick. The last 3 years have been a gut punch with colon cancer, chemo, radiation, chemo, surgery, ileostomy, reverse the ileostomy, I’m tired of all that. Good news is I seem to be cancer free. My wife and I started exercising together, which I basically hadn’t done for two and a half years. I’m feeling good, getting stronger, I’m even getting close to going back to work.

The upside is I basically had bigger fish to fry during Covid so I missed/ignored a lot of that. Politics too. It’s amazing how illness can rearrange your priorities.

Throughout all of that I had my faith,I had my family, to a large degree I had this place to keep my mind off the noise and just bullshit and argue about guns and such. (I probably argued too much, working on that lol)

So overall looking up, thanks for asking. Glad to hear you are doing well para. Never hesitate to ask for help, this is a great bunch of guys.

Thanks Para.

I’ve finally turned the corner health-wise. I got sick mid-December and have been in bed or camped out on the couch with sneezes, sniffles, hacking couch, fever, and aches since then.

I finally called my doc 12 days ago. He assumed it was the rona and had me tested. It wasn’t. He put me on some heavy duty anti-biotics for 10 days which finally killed whatever bug I had.

Today’s the first day I haven’t felt lousy and it feels great. Tomorrow I head back to the fitness center and start walking and doing light workouts.

Best wishes to you and yours.

Just OK. Should be doing great. Business is very good, I'm known professionally as being good and honest in my field. Married 27 years to an extremely patient and kind woman. Daughter graduating with a Master’s degree in chemistry at age 22 this spring. 51 years old with not one dollar of debt. Town selectman, overwhelmingly elected. I don't let the national politics bother me anymore, just concentrate on family and community. Still, just OK. Been battling depression for about 15 years. Hit bottom 10 years ago with drinking, now ten years sober. That has helped tremendously, but still a battle. Had been very stable and steady over the last 5-7 years, which helped rebuild strained relationships with wife and daughter, effected by it all. The last 6 months have been hard, Not gonna lie. Helps to talk about it, thanks Para!!

I am doing pretty well.

At the start of 2022 I made the decision to cut back on my work hours.
I had been working 7 days a week across multiple contract gigs for about 4 years or so and decided it was time to have some free time.

Big hit to the monthly income, but we are getting by just fine.
I am hoping to be able to retire in about 3 years at 65.
We'll see what happens.

No complaints overall.

This is refreshing….like Para said, it’s usually a question in passing but this time it seems a sincere inquiry of your members here that give us all a lot of interaction…nice! Thank you!
Pretty good here overall, retired from emergency services after a long career….now getting used to living off a healthy pension and redefining myself. Fly fishing will be my focus giving me my time in nature and keeping me sane in the fucked up times we find ourselves in. I recently traveled to Georgia and met up with my best friend for a fishing trip and had a ball! The wife and I are in good health, my son is trying to find his path at age 19 and my 22 year old daughter is super focused on her nursing school and nailing it! I really can’t complain, thank you for asking!

We are doing well, thanks for asking. The only negative is adult children who are not fully independent.

My wife and I are doing pretty good. Both of use are in decent health; she's retired and I'm semi-retired.
No debt of any kind and with our pensions and social security we're doing OK financially.

Our kids are successful and have good marriages; we have four awesome grandchildren between the ages of 10 months and 12 years old.

We're both totally disgusted with all levels of government and don't trust any of those levels.
We worry about the kind of lives our grandkids will have the way the left is destroying the country.

This is truly a "differently run forum" and far better than any others I've seen.

I'm doing pretty good and so's my wife. My cancer is in remission, and, though I am a bit decrepit, it could be so much worse.

And, last February, I found out that in addition to my son, I had two daughters, six grandchildren and six great grandchildren-that, up till then, I had no idea existed. Arfmel and 12131 know the story and I will share it here before too long.

Since then I have visited the daughters, and they've visited us. I've met all the grandchildren and great grandchildren and I am truly blessed.

Bob

I'm living the dream. Some days it doesn't even feel like a nightmare.

The good:
Traded my Challenger for a new Jeep Cherokee Trailhawk. Looking forward to some off roading after the weather breaks. The Challenger was going to get me tossed in jail eventually.
Just had an eye exam. No worse for wear.
Colonoscopy was clear.
My son came up to the Yoop from the urban paradise of NOLA for a visit. That made me happy.
The bad:
My kid went back to NOLA.
Some assholes broke into my storage locker and pilfered some stuff. But did not take my EBike or my BMW.
All things considered, I am doing fine!

I'm doing very well overall.

I sold my orthodontic practice and retired last September after 30 years in practice. That's given me time to work on projects at a slower pace and enjoy a few more hobbies that I didn't really have time for while working. My wife and I are both in good health, and my daughter and her husband are settling into their first house.

My mom died on Thanksgiving Day, but it was the sort of death we all wish for. She had dinner with my brother and his family, went upstairs to rest a bit and died of cardiac arrest at 78. A good life.

My only real gripe right now is that the Democrats control both houses of the MN legislature (by just 1 seat in the Senate) and the liberal Governor seems ready to sign everything they pass. They appear poised to go big and push through every disgusting thing you can imagine in the next two years.

Life is good for us.

Pam and I are both healthy and active. I probably work too much (my retail store, EMS side hustle, county commission and fire department plus I'm helping teach this years fire academy). My wife of 28 years is ever patient. I turn 65 in April and begin the cruise towards retirement at 70. Well if you call retired cutting back to 40 hour weeks. My plan is to simply not have to be someplace everyday and to pick at what and when I want to work.

My personal happiness increased greatly when I made a decision a few years ago to only do things that bring joy into my life outside of the required crap we all have to do.

My wife is currently dealing with her mother's failing health after her father's death a year ago. They have been estranged for decades and her brother is left to deal with it 1,400 miles from us. My parents are both long deceased.

Our 3 children are all doing well, our 2 boys live close by, our daughter in NC about 11 hours away. No grandchildren and honestly, we are not unhappy about that.

Financially, we have no debt and we payed the house off several years ago. Trying to squirrel away as much as we can before retirement.

The wife and I have gotten to travel a bit the last few years and we are planning our longest trip together to date this September.

We are blessed.

I'm doing well, unsubbed from most news sites, I refuse to get caught up in the anger. I can not control things that happen by destructive DC. Where I live it won't be knocking on my doorstep. More important things to focus on at this time.

Honestly, not great. I've had a lot of wins this past year, continuing into this year, and a lot of things I should be happy about and grateful for. Some serious health issues that haven't gotten sorted out yet have cast a pall over everything. Hard to be happy when you're exhausted all the time, even when you're sleeping ten to fourteen hours out of every twenty four, weak as a kitten, ravenously hungry all the time, can't write or stand still because of tremors, and more. I'll be turning 40 in a few months and I feel much, much older than that.

When I lived in Southern California, there was a Los Angeles radio talk show host who called himself "Mister KFI." When asked how he was, he'd reply, "Better than most, not as good as some." I always liked that, and have appropriated it. It describes me right now. At 64 I'm still working every day at a fairly physically strenuous job, make decent (for the area) money, have no serious health issues, have a little money in the bank, and am on track to get out of debt and take my Social Security/Medicare/retirement this year (will still work part time for a while).