Retirement

I'm sitting here in a sleepy daze and realize that I miss my half hour ride into work. Now I see why the morning drive time on that ancient car radio was/is the most important time slot. I seem to get my best ideas either driving to work or in the shower. If I had a shower in my car I would be a genius.

So bear (bare?) with me as random things pop into my head.

I see Emeril Lagasse is on GMA. Has anybody ever made any of his recipes? I have and they totally suck. I'm not sure that guy can actually cook. OK OK - now I'm telling you whats on TV.

I watched Taken last night (with Lime Nelson), goof flick, large body count.

Speaking of coffee.

After months and months of negotiation I will have another "exhibit" at Starbucks in September 2010 and it is going to knock your socks off. I've had a large print project in the works but no place to show it. It'll be perfect.

This is very boring about me and retirement - I'm almost erasing it but . . so many keystrokes.

I've had a number of people ask me why I'm still working for the State, I should retire. Yea - I could but I've done a lot of research on retiring and I've talked to people after they retired and really it's not that wonderful if you are not prepared.

It's not the money - it's the time. You have so MUCH time. Plus many people feel that after they have retired they screwed up somehow.

Look at it this way, all your life you look towards retiring, traveling the world, living the good life because finally you have time and you can do all of those things you never had time to do.

But once you leave work you find out that while the money is coming in you don't have that extra million you were expecting, you are not as rich as you thought you would sleep to noon anyway. Where did I F* up??? All your life you have had structure and all of a sudden you have zero, you sleep to noon, and get going by 3:00 but by that time it's to late to do anything.

Sure that first few months can be great but after 6 months and it's winter you find yourself watching TV all day.

SO - since my job is not totally a nightmare I'll hang on for a while (at least winter). My LONG TERM plan is to see how the art fair scene is this summer and then start to make plans once I see how those waters are. If I sell a few images each show perhaps it'll be time. I know I'm obsessing over the "art scene" and think I'll hit the ground running by being so freaking prepared it's silly, from marketing, selling and knowing I have 2 seconds to get customers into my booth. Now I have to see if people actually want to fork out $$. There are a lot of things going on in one of those canvas booths to get you to open your wallet. I'm finding it fascinating actually.

Did you know that some of those exhibitioners at Art Fair on the Square can being in $40,000 in one weekend?
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OK - enough about that.

The Arias Casino opens today in Las Vegas, the largest hotel/casino on the strip, and inside? 117 million dollars in chips. 4000 rooms and 14,000 people work there. it only cost EIGHT POINT FIVE BILLION DOLLAR$.

I see their website has music - that is SOOO 2000s (inside joke about a comment a few days ago).

OK - I'm going to make breakfast now and see if I can get going before noon. hmmmm I do have somethings on my DVR I could watch.

Cheers

MORE COFFEE
Rod