2016

[steve from staten island]

2016 was a good year for me. I had four surgerys to fix structural issues caused by many years of hard physical work.
I am now essentially retired (I can still work 480 hrs per year at my trade without upsetting my pension).
I save and invested well. Now and from here forward are for me to relax and play.

Hoping you are feeling better in the New Year

 

[BeeKool]

Its guys like you that would never make me want to leave this forum. Guys i can argue with and then its like it never happened. Thats the way it should be. You know Kool, i always liked you and there was a reason. Your post is that reason.

You should be a fly on Wall when I get into a heated argument with my dad. Lol

 

[ws23jrt]

Hoping you are feeling better in the New Year

Thanks--I was feeling better after each repair I had. I can stand up without back pain.
A nerve impingment repair in my arm gave me back the full use of my right hand. And that pesky and kinda gross hernia is back inside where it belongs.
I feel like a survivor with a tune up, new brakes and suspension. (A paint job won't help but I'm a driver).

 

[Richard Cranium]

Jane, stop this crazy thing!

 

[BeeKool]

Good year overall, a couple bumps here and there. Lost our dog Mocha rather unexpectedly in Sept. She was 10. My wife still misses her a lot. This pic is from my mom's boyfriends
this summer.
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My son finished his bachelors degree and is employed and making his own way for the most part. We are still helping him a little so he can get the college loans paid down quicker. My daughter is still at MSU and is now living off campus in an apartment with her boyfriend. They are both working on Bachelors degrees and more. Wife still has auto-immune issues that are not fully understood or really truly diagnosed. Her step-father (91) had a stroke early this year and then fell and broke his hip a couple months ago. He was ready to give up but my wife had a good talk with him and he realized he still had things he wanted to do in life and has made great strides in rehab. He's even back home now, he's such a great person. I've tried to get the Dodge on the road this summer but again it hasn't worked out. Maybe next year. Celebrated 20 years at work in Sept. So I really don't have much to complain. Hopefully 2017 continues to be good.

Sorry for your loss. I have a gang of Labradors and love each one of them dearly.
RIP Mocha

 

[moparwacko]

Jane, stop this crazy thing!

You need to have time off my friend, before you go nuts.
Uh, more nuts.
Work/ business isn't everything

 

[Cranky]

The wife had some health issues and so have I but hers cost more than mine Good point is that I don't have to deal with the ACA!! Over all, not a great year monetarily but it could have been much worse and I have been able to do a little bit of work on my car. Looking forward to the coming years and do have higher hope for them than I've had in the pass several.....

 

[Richard Cranium]

You need to have time off my friend, before you go nuts.
Uh, more nuts.
Work/ business isn't everything

I agree. However, when owning your own small business & take a week off, it can take 3-4 long days to play catch up, leaving one to wonder if the time off was worth it?

 

[BeeKool]

[QUOTE="Richard Cranium, post: 910572959, member:
My biggest complaint is a lack of down time & I feel like the business is running me instead of me running the business. Not to wish time away, but I do look forward to the time when I can sell the business and start to slow down. Right now, I feel like George Jetson on the treadmill.[/QUOTE]

 

[moparnation74]

Its guys like you that would never make me want to leave this forum. Guys i can argue with and then its like it never happened. Thats the way it should be. You know Kool, i always liked you and there was a reason. Your post is that reason.

 

[ws23jrt]

I agree. However, when owning your own small business & take a week off, it can take 3-4 long days to play catch up, leaving one to wonder if the time off was worth it?

A close friend since high school and I stayed close cause of like thinking and we are both gear heads and interest in the same kind of cars and motorcycles.
He started his own business in the late ninties. A one man show making special tools for the aircraft repair industry.
At times when he had deadlines he could not meet he would call me to make stuff for him in my home machine shop. He would always pay me at least $100 per hour to help out.
Then there were times when he was inbetween orders and he was stressed about not making it on his own.
I talked about this issue with him many times.
One day several years ago he had chest pain while working in his shop alone as usual. He dialed 911 but could not get his location understood.
I miss Bob. I miss his drive to make stuff happen. I miss his independant effort to make it on his own with his own company.
I helped his wife gather up all of the things in his life that he either started to do or finished doing. This task was like looking in a mirror in many ways.

We sometimes work our *** off for the time to live. The reality is that often we- live- working our *** off and that is what our live ends up being.

My good old friend Bob and I talked about these kind of things many times. He always said he would know when he had enough working to stop.------It was not about money----Bob and his wife had plenty to feed their life style till they were 150 years old.
Living can be complicated and so can dying.

 

[steve from staten island]

You should be a fly on Wall when I get into a heated argument with my dad. Lol

As you grow older you'll find out maybe the old man knew what he was talking about LOL.....

 

[Rick Carson]

2016 was a good year for me,got to spend a lot of time with my wife of 30 years,and my grand daughter Sadie who is now 21 months old. I lost 85 lbs, gained a 62 dart and a 440,and lots of friends on this site.Who could ask for more? Didn't make a lot of money,but , I didn't any other year either! lol
Happy New Years one and all!

 

[ws23jrt]

As you grow older you'll find out maybe the old man knew what he was talking about LOL.....

It is age old --and likely to be so (if our culture allows it) that the young will only connect the dots with what dad said --years after it matters.
I am only 65 and laugh at some of the wise thinking I had as a teen. I was (in my mind) (at the time) going to be different. I won't be "that old guy" when I arrived at the old guy phase of life.
I was not interested in history then. I was living in new times and new stuff was where I will live.
So fast forward and I am "old". (sorta) I am now talking to my 38 year old son about misunderstandings we had when he was 14.
We both laugh about learning about life and agree about what we missed by not understanding each other at the most important time.

 

[mopar 3 B]

As you grow older you'll find out maybe the old man knew what he was talking about LOL.....

Yea like if you are going to make a living at it make sure you enjoy it. Dad was blunt about what he said and at times had no explanation. But when he said something it was usually worth heeding.

 

[gdrill]

As you grow older you'll find out maybe the old man knew what he was talking about LOL.....

"Kids don't realize that someday they will grow up and know as little as their parents"

 

[67300VERT]

Hmmm; 2016 wasn't too bad. I'm still here at 64 years of age and my friend who was diagnosed with cancer last year is cancer free now!! So I guess I've got a lot to be thankful for. My financial situation is also much better.
I don't know about 2017,,,it used to seem so far in the future. I know we're supposed to keep politics out of this but I was skeptical about our new president, BUT I'm willing to give him a chance and hope he succeeds with his agenda and that all will turn out for the best.