I have been making some stupid mistakes lately! I have been putting two of my most personal characteristics in conflict with each other. Those two characteristics are:
“Simplify” & “Never Stop Learning” Continue reading I Need Projects…
I can’t tell you how many “Simplify” signs I have in my small one-bedroom apartment here at my RetCom. I have never been much of a collector, but the “Simplify” message has always attracted me. I have finally decided to simplify my blog presence. For the last two weeks I have spent hours and hours struggling with how I will go forward with my blogging. I initially thought it was necessary to start fresh and throw away all of my posts here at RJsCorner. After several attempts of doing that, I have decided that would only cause a lot of … Continue reading I’M BACK
Being a Bob Dylan fan, but only during his folk music years, I thought it appropriate to use his words for this post. I have been posting at RJsCorner for sixteen years now. It’s time to move on. With this post, I want to tell you why. A good part of my corporate world work life was spent fixing processes and building software tools to do that. It seems I never saw a process that I didn’t think could be made better. I was pretty successful at accomplishing that as I got some serious recognition for my work and a … Continue reading The Times, They Are a Changing…
One of my first “big boy” books was a biography of Einstein. I think I was about twelve years old when I read the first one. It was about 300 pages long, and I didn’t image I would ever finish … Continue reading Happiness #5 – According to Einstein
I really do intend to give you more of the time I first entered RetComLife, but mini epiphanies keep getting in the way. Since all this is new to me, I am trying to discover the best way to get … Continue reading RetComLife #5 – Simplify…
“Simplify” is my current theme for living. I don’t need complicated at this point in my life. So, for this artsy Saturday, I want to give you a very simple scene. It was taken several years ago at my favorite Shaker village near Lexington Kentucky. What could be simpler than showing the very basics of Shaker life. Continue reading Simplify
Even before my recent brain injury and resulting surgery, I was contemplating some serious changes here at RJsCorner. Quite simply I was getting bogged down in the “inside the beltway” insanity that ruled my world. I now realize that was an obsessive reaction to recent national events that were beginning to overwhelm me. A foundational part of my being is that I am an Aspie. I demand logic and reason in my life and I saw myself losing both. Something had to change and I have been working on that for the last couple of weeks. Yes, even while my … Continue reading Simplicity At RJsCorner
The last few years the concept of simplicity has been a major theme for me. I have spent much of the last year decluttering my life and all the stuff I have unnecessarily collected. That included a closet of clothes never worn in several years and a 30×60 foot barn with decades worth of accumulated junk. For some reason I now find it much more satisfying to live a cleaner life without so much stuff. I don’t know if this is because I can see the end of the tunnel or if this has been a lifelong endeavor that is … Continue reading Simplify…
I know the title above might be confusing to you right now but let me explain. If only we would follow the principle of Occum’s razor and understand that most often the simplest answer is the best answer. But instead we make things more complicated than they need to be. We just can’t seem to help ourselves. This phenomenon came to the forefront for me while watching a prison documentary on TV lately. OK, first I guess I have to admit that sometimes I just get bored with the normal stuff on TV and turn into these types of shows … Continue reading Pragmatism & Drugs in Prisons…
I guess I am of that rare breed who actually gets a weekly hard-copy magazine. That magazine is Time. Each weekly issue rests on my bedside stand and is read nightly until completed. I think maybe Time is the only weekly magazine left with my political slant. There is just something about actually holding the info in my hands that still appeals to me. Now don’t get me wrong, 95% of what I read is probably digital. I have a Kindle Reader for most of my books now and part of my regular daily activity is spending about an hour at … Continue reading Still Clinging To My Hard Copy Magazines….
Source: Get personalized help to max out Social Security. Social Security Solutions’ optimization plan calls for my wife to file for her own benefits at age 67 but immediately suspend her payments — a perfectly legal strategy known as a file-and-suspend. We start getting some Social Security benefits immediately when I apply (at age 66) to receive a spousal benefit based on her earnings record, half of what she could receive. At age 70, my wife starts her own benefits; a year later, I switch to my own benefit when I turn 70. Both of our benefits are now at the … Continue reading Gaming The System……
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