I don't give a fuck if I'm in my 60s! Here's to hairy backs, yellow teeth, reading glasses, no mortgage, looming retirement, cowboy hats, fluorescent red Nike's with well worn Levi's, grey beards, dogs, and trucks. It's fuckin' great to be alive with all you RfM wankers as friends! The Boner.



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Don't forget itchy orifices. A straightened paper clip, judiciously applied... oooh baby...

Boner, let us be a cautionary tale to all those whippersnappers in our midst. Live wisely and you could end up like us.

(Corollary: live wisely, OR you could end up like us...)

try a bottle brush.

60s isn't old anymore ;)

70s isn't old either.

Is it your birthday today, oh woody one?

I've been reading up this morning on the pros and cons of taking early retirement.

The verdict is in: I shan't be retiring anytime soon. :(

I'd love to relocate to southern Utah with its 300+ days of sunshine and views of the red mountains.

It's my job that keeps me where I'm at. Wish I could have the best of both worlds, but in order to finance my retirement I still need to keep working towards it.

Were I to move now would still need to keep working. Still considering it nonetheless. It's harder for women over 50 to find work wherever we are. But I should stop worrying so much. If I were as brave as my pioneer ancestors, I'd be gone already. They struck out with barely anything at all. No jobs. No retirements. No vested pensions or SS. They didn't have mortgages. They made their own log houses and huts, paid for with blood, sweat, and tears.

They just did it. And forged a life wherever they ended up.

What happened to my chutzpah? :(

Maybe it's time for a good old fashioned Vitamin B shot! ;)

Amyjo, I want to come with you! Maybe, it's braver with two pioneers rather than one. I am also a female and fifty. I really wish I knew who you are.

I'm over the hill, and east of the Mississippi. :)

My fear is of failing were I to uproot by going before I'm fiscally "ready" to make the move.

On the other hand, I've heard all the stories about why wait since no one really knows the future? Wouldn't it be better to go now and enjoy what's left of the life I've been given in a place I can see eternity from there?

Housing prices keep going up there. In the past five years since I've been watching they've gone up app $50,000 on a median priced house. A financial aid advisor I met with in St. George last month believes there's a housing bubble there at the moment, and that it may come back down during the next couple of years.

Meanwhile, if it doesn't, does it really make more sense to wait knowing that buying into the real estate market is only going to climb higher to the point I won't want to blow all my retirement on a living arrangement?

My goal is to enjoy my retirement wherever I'm at.

There are jobs in southern Utah, and it's a boom town. It's the fifth fastest growing metro area in the United States currently. So many reasons to go now. But once I give my notice where I'm at I won't be able to change my mind ... so I'm in a tug-of-war with myself!

:(

You're right about the pioneers though, being "safety in numbers." They banded together. Had they struck out on their own without some support system, no doubt things would not have held together for many of them.

Farting a lot and laughing about it with your grandkids.

Life is good.

If you're upwind.

I love our old Boner

Every time I hear the Beatles song "A little help from my Friends" and the phrase " What do you feel when you turn off the lights...I'm not certain but I know it's mine.." I always think of our Boner..

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I turned 65 last year. Sigh... Tonight my band is playing for the local senior's center. I have a big band (16 piece) and we play swing music to classic rock. They want us to be a monthly regular at the center. I played Saturday in Chattanooga. March 1st I play with a university wind ensemble. That weekend I play with an orchestra.

Retirement is great. I have never been busier performing and practicing - certainly not good enough to have ever been a professional. Engineering paid for the retirement and NOT paying tithing for the past 22 years. Do not give your money to the corporation.

I am old too. It is fun to be free from regular work and the cult.

I will only be old when I pass 100.

Eric, this sounds amazing! Wow, to be playing in a group and orchestra! Thanks again for this site! Da Bone.

I'm close to retirement and have been paying off my debts with what I would have used to pay tithing. I would have had to wait three or four more years to retire if I had continued paying tithing.

I am at an age when I like getting older because it puts me that much closer to retirement. If I could retire tomorrow, I would.

Happy that we are all here--especially you, BYU Boner!

I was referred to as elderly the other day. I had no idea who they were talking about. To me, elderly is my parents who are in their 90's.

I'm not quite ready to say i'm elderly. I still smoke pot, dance at rock concerts and drive a sports car. When I can't do that, then maybe, just maybe i'll consign myself to the big E.

been retired 2 years now, getting old may suck but a set of golf clubs, a good motorcycle and the open road keeps me alert and sort of fit living the good life.

Not to do a put down BUUUUUUT I am 81 and still active in my profession and I don't intend to slow down until it is forced upon me.

I'm hoping I make it to my 80s. To help insure this, I make sure to cuss every day. My guardian angel keeps saying she'll give me time to repent.

I think it's great that you enjoy your work to that degree.

Like you, my brother also has to stay busy. So before he retired he had to figure out what that would look like without a full time job. He was semi-retired for a couple of years while he got a handle on it. Once he was fully retired, he loved it.

You are one of the good ones boner as you know most of the leadership in the church are old so I clashed a lot with them over the years so sometimes I get flashbacks I know it's a big issue I gotta work on

I prefer phone talking for an hour over trying to text every thought and idea with my aching thumbs. How do the millennials thumb every conversation and stare at their smart phone for hours? I'd rather see, smell, and hear nature.

The kids now have smart phones. No more thumb texting unless you want to. You talk into your phone and it types what you say.

I think it's great they text. Otherwise I don't know if I would ever hear from kids. They text me several times a week.

As we glory in our codgerhood, let's also salute Big Pharm for Viagra, Cialis, and Levitra!



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I would also add my thanks to Metamucil! It's great to be just a regular guy!

Hey, I missed you Caffiend! Were you off looking at Tom Brady porn? Remember, I'm buying the Ipswich Fried Clams!

Peace and joy, Caffiend!

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> I would also add my thanks to Metamucil! It's
> great to be just a regular guy!

Oh, that is too much!
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> Hey, I missed you Caffiend! Were you off looking
> at Tom Brady porn? Remember, I'm buying the
> Ipswich Fried Clams!

I was researching how to transition to female so I can bear Brady's child. Seriously: I stayed off this addictive site because I was preparing a chapter for my writing group. I'm pretty happy with it; I'll see what the others have to say. Get this: It's a Mormon Romance being critiqued by several very secular NPR-type women, and they love it!
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> Peace and joy, Caffiend!

...and a thousand words a day, hopefully. Back atcha!

A Mo-romance novel? Who would have thought! Keep us posted, I enjoy a good cry now and again!

..as he gently pressed his virginal loins against her chaste garment-clothed derrière...

Here's to NOT having to do my 60s without coffee, tea and wine. Can't even imagine.

And to living in the days of hormone replacement, thyroid meds, iron infusions, B-12 injections, calcium supplements and anything else that keeps us from remembering that our parents were old when they were this age.

Hoping to work to 70-1/2 and then doing my year hiding in Mexico to do the Eat Pray Love thing. (Except it will be Read Meditate Write).

Do you need a boy-toy for Mexico? Just asking...

LOL. Yes if he's a 30-year-old muscular Spanish masseuse.

Let's see, things to do list--hit the gym and enroll in the Utah College of Massage therapy. Two out of three might not be so bad. Ole'!