tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360557762116828277.post1218793808532311108..comments2023-11-03T09:25:57.607-04:00Comments on 829 southdrive: Baydoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00751866865203182109noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360557762116828277.post-35265090494818480962012-08-10T09:44:56.865-04:002012-08-10T09:44:56.865-04:00What Doc said - with crispy bacon.What Doc said - with crispy bacon.Tillermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00639738519386820997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360557762116828277.post-15253400770558913202012-08-09T22:41:19.444-04:002012-08-09T22:41:19.444-04:00Thanks, Doc. Big complement.Thanks, Doc. Big complement.Baydoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00751866865203182109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360557762116828277.post-8563184844119790352012-08-09T10:58:11.069-04:002012-08-09T10:58:11.069-04:00Quote:
There's been a noticeable absence in t...Quote:<br /><br /><i>There's been a noticeable absence in the blogosphere . . . . . got our attention a few years ago and drew us in with his sheer brilliance and natural way with words, his uncanny knack for photography, and an otherworldly ability to make sense out of the insensible. I waited daily for his posts, and read them not once, not twice, but numerous times. I searched for hidden meanings and sometimes found them. Other times I found none, for none were meant to be found. As the comments unfolded, the reader sometimes was able to decipher the intended message, if one was intended. More often than not it was just an intelligent observation of an everyday happening, which the average person probably would never have observed.</i><br /><br />Unquote<br /><br />This passage I take to be autobiographical in tone and content. that's what I conclude after taking a brief retrospective trip in 829 Southdrive's pages, back to November of 2010.<br /><br />I'm praying that this blogger never becomes extinct. Not until I'm long gone, anyways.Doc Häagen-Dazshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00577427442824705257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360557762116828277.post-47737688982917012482012-08-09T08:53:27.722-04:002012-08-09T08:53:27.722-04:00I assumed it was something like that. The transiti...I assumed it was something like that. The transition to retirement is a strange experience and everybody deals with it differently.<br /><br />It's good that you are keeping busy even it is only "cleaning out a dusty, cobwebby garage in broiling, hundred-degree heat." Some people just sit around all day wondering what to do.<br /><br />My own personal equivalent to "cleaning out a dusty, cobwebby garage in broiling, hundred-degree heat" was teaching kids to sail all summer in 90 degree heat. <br /><br />Heat is good.<br /><br />Each to their own.Tillermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00639738519386820997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360557762116828277.post-53928918926948175462012-08-09T04:16:54.074-04:002012-08-09T04:16:54.074-04:00Baydog, haven't you noticed what a kinder, gen...Baydog, haven't you noticed what a kinder, gentler place the world is without my blogging?<br /><br />I've been retired for about six weeks now and have been rediscovering some of life's simpler pleasures - like early morning walks by the river with my wife or spending a week and a half cleaning out a dusty, cobwebby garage in broiling, hundred-degree heat.<br /><br />I'm learning that my wife has more tasks for me than my old boss ever could have imagined.<br /><br />But I think I'm also figuring out that I used blogging as a way to escape the stress of a job I didn't much care for. And that torment is now blissfully gone.<br /><br />I'm enjoying taking life one day at a time for a change - doing whatever the hell I feel like. It is a strange feeling after jumping through other people's hoops every day for nearly forty years.<br /><br />Email is something I can now look forward to reading.<br /><br />I will get back to blogging, but, like everything else now, I'm in no particular hurry to do so. The blog will probably be a bit different, though I'm not sure in quite what way. But I'm a bit different now, so that will probably show.<br /><br />Stay tuned, and thanks for some very kind words.<br><br>O Dockerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08674140306304705852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360557762116828277.post-16667246552552553722012-08-09T00:23:44.999-04:002012-08-09T00:23:44.999-04:00I miss you man.....I miss you man.....Baydoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00751866865203182109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360557762116828277.post-83325964482033546912012-08-09T00:14:52.151-04:002012-08-09T00:14:52.151-04:00Baydog - Wonderful, provocative post that will hop...Baydog - Wonderful, provocative post that will hopefully engage the "imminent" retiree.<br /><br />However, I think you may have slightly missed on your ornithological reference. It's true that the Dodo is an extinct species, but hopefully we are not going there with the great one.<br /><br />Perhaps the bird you had in mind was the metaphorical Albatross (see Coleridge)? As Wikipedia (which is never wrong) notes, "The word 'albatross' is sometimes used metaphorically to mean a psychological burden that feels like a curse." <br /><br />Retirement would seem to be his Albatross.Mojohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06721376775731666766noreply@blogger.com