Blogger 365 Day 71 - Retirement planning

     Just got in about 15 minutes ago, so I am not sure how long or shoryt this will be.  Not that I ever go into a blog knowing for certain how long or short any of them will be, but sometimes I have a general idea, tonight not so much.

     Spent the evening at the Rivers casino, spending too much money and eating too much food at the Grandview Buffet, but it was worth it, and so sorely needed.  It might have been the first time in weeks where the first thing I did after work wasn't go straight home in case my phone rang for either of the stores.  And that was perfectly fine with me.  Soon enough the burden of the empire will fall squarely on my shoulders, so if I can sneak out for an evening that has nothing to do with work all the better.

     On the way home I stopped at CVS, I didn't really need to go there, but recently I had hookde up my Extra Care card online and the CVS website went all kind of crazy when I tried to pick my local store location.  It kept giving me offers for two different stores, one in New Hampshire and the other in California as opposed to the store that is three blocks up the street from me.  When I emailed them, to say my online account was having issues linking up with my local store then apologized, fixed the problem and gave me $5 in Extra Care bucks for my issue, so I stopped in tonight on the way home and spent my not so ill gotten booty and bought junk I really didn't need.  I also stopped at the lottery kiosk in the store and spent $5 on tonight's Mega Millions drawing.

     I have a running joke with Ed at work, where I tell him I am just one lottery ticket away from retirement.  Tonight's drawing is for $353 million, so I suppose I could retire on that.  The thing is, if you had asked me 5 or 10 years ago if I would retire, even winning that large a sum of money I would have said no.  Now I don't think the answer would be the same.  Back then, in ye olde radio days, I could take comfort in the notion that if something didn't get done or something didn't run right 99% of the time I had to look no further than the bathroom mirror to find out who was responsible.  Now it is a lot of begging and pleading and coaxing to get the same results because I have to rely on others and that isn't my forte.  I am the type of person who would rather do things myself, that way I know they were done and done properly, instead of hoping that things get done.  I don't want this to sound like I am complaining about everyone I work with, there are plenty of people there that I know intrinsically I can rely on, but I also know intrinsically the ones I can't.  Having the title but not the authority to do something about that issue is why retirement wouldn't be that bad a thing.  When work becomes a Sisyphean task the idea walking away does pop into my head from time to time, and $300+  million would certainly make that decision at least a little more interesting.

     Let's not kid anyone, I am not winning the lottery.  I know that much even after spending $5 on tickets, but if I am going to dream, I should dream big.  I think this puts it best.....


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