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Whew!! It still works!!!
"Xeno" > wrote in message
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> On 26/08/2015 1:15 AM, graham wrote:
>> On 25/08/2015 8:39 AM, Xeno wrote:
>>> On 26/08/2015 12:00 AM, graham wrote:
>>>> On 25/08/2015 2:00 AM, Xeno wrote:
>>>>> On 25/08/2015 11:27 AM, graham wrote:
>>>>>> On 24/08/2015 7:15 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
>>>>>>> On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 18:33:39 -0600, graham wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 24/08/2015 4:59 PM, Xeno wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 25/08/2015 8:08 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On 2015-08-24 5:30 PM, wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> If I were John, I would send away for a replacement set
>>>>>>>>>>> of the Capresso burrs (Swiss), and figure out how to retrofit
>>>>>>>>>>> his B&D burr grinder with them. Because burrs don't last
>>>>>>>>>>> forever.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Oh sure. Those coffee beans are so much tougher than the steel
>>>>>>>>>> burrs.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Swing by the Grand Canyon next time you're in the area. Water
>>>>>>>>> erodes
>>>>>>>>> stone! ;-)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Actually, it's the sediment carried by water that erodes stone.
>>>>>>>> Graham
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Water without any sediment, water is still very effective in
>>>>>>> erosion.
>>>>>>> If you pour a bucket of water into a pile of dirt, what happens?
>>>>>>> The
>>>>>>> force of fast moving water is very effective at wearing away rocks.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Oh, Sorry! I must be out of date then. After all, I received my
>>>>>> geology
>>>>>> Ph.D 45 years ago and have been working in the profession since then.
>>>>>> Graham
>>>>>>
>>>>> Given the average age at completion of a Ph.D, the average age of a
>>>>> graduate from 45 years ago would probably place you in your late 70s
>>>>> at
>>>>> best but more likely in your 80s. I am currently tutoring a Ph.D
>>>>> student
>>>>> and she will be 40 on completion, a fairly typical age. Two of my
>>>>> previous students were 37 and 35 respectively.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyway, congrats on managing to stay in your field for your entire
>>>>> career. My preferred career path vanished before I had even completed
>>>>> a
>>>>> Masters. Such is the transitory nature of modern careers!
>>>>>
>>>> I'm 71.
>>>> Graham
>>>
>>
>>>
>> > You were a busy boy in your early 20s.
>> It was normal in the UK then. Actually, I had some setbacks in my
>> research so took a year longer than usual, finishing in '70 rather than
>> '69.
>>
>> > I was about to undertake another career change at age 48 when I became
>> > rather ill and instead saw the end of my working life. Let me assure
>> > you, retirement is much better when you can plan it in advance rather
>> > than having it thrust upon you.
>> >
>> Sorry to learn of that.
>> I'm still working although the drop in the oil price has severely
>> curtailed projects. I'm finding it difficult to adjust to retirement,
>> as I'm used to working on interesting projects. However, when work does
>
> Ditto. I was doing curriculum development work and moving into online
> education. My new career was to have been involved in the setting up of an
> automotive focused technical college in Thailand. It was in that country
> where I initially became ill, at my in-laws farm in fact.
>
>> appear, I feel rather annoyed at having to do it. I'm wondering whether
>> to stop cold turkey as professional, software, insurance and accounting
>> fees will eat up all my projected income next year.
>> Graham
>
> It is hard to stop cold turkey. They say you need to start planning for
> retirement some 10 years prior to actually pulling the pin! I was just
> about to enter that phase. Needless to say, my planning simply never
> happened. Basically, you need to develop a new hobby or three to
> accommodate an extra 40 hours, or more, per week of leisure time.
> Typically, 6 months or a year will see you caught up with all those jobs
> around the house and after that you will find yourself annoying the living
> bejesus out of your wife.
>
> There's another point. If you and your wife have both been working, you
> will need to get used to "living together" all over again. A work
> colleague retired the same day I did. His wife retired a couple of years
> later. He told me it took the better part of 6 months to get used to being
> under each other's feet.
"Nowadays they spend half of each year as
> grey nomads trekking around the country with 4WD and caravan."
Which is exactly what we do  ))
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