The AH Coffee Shop and Reading Room 02: A Comma (is a Restful Pause)

[TxRad]

I got hijacked out to dinner and drinks by two very dolled up ladies. I ended up designated driver and just poured both of them into bed.

The coffee and kettle are ready for the after midnight crew.

Now it is time for me to go join them in, uh, slumber.

 

[Handley_Page]

I got hijacked out to dinner and drinks by two very dolled up ladies. I ended up designated driver and just poured both of them into bed.

The coffee and kettle are ready for the after midnight crew.

Now it is time for me to go join them in, uh, slumber.

<glances of envy>

The coffee is just the thing ast this time, thanks

 

[TxRad]

Afternooner all, I'm here to freshen the coffee. Help yourself.

The hangovers were mild this morning but fun to tease about as i ministered to the disadvantaged. A while later, I made waffles, which were ate with gusto. An hour or so after that, my writing was interrupted by two naked and horny females. Back to bed.

Now I'm awake after a nap and stopped by on the way back to writing.

Life is fun and interesting to say the least.

 

[NotWise]

I had a real estate flyer from Coldwell Banker Real Estate in my office mail this morning, addressed to me. They were selling the company I work for. It was an odd way, to say the least, to find out that the company where I've worked for 33+ years is up for sale.

 

[sharingfantasies]

What a lousy way to find out. Guess the owners are too cowardly to actually face the workers.

 

[Handley_Page]

I had a real estate flyer from Coldwell Banker Real Estate in my office mail this morning, addressed to me. They were selling the company I work for. It was an odd way, to say the least, to find out that the company where I've worked for 33+ years is up for sale.

It's not merely a lousy way to discover things, it's plain rude and bloody uncaring. It is to be hoped that whatever 'redundancy' benefits are paid in full and there's no fiddling with the pension rights.

What a lousy way to find out. Guess the owners are too cowardly to actually face the workers.

That's a nasty way of telling. I hope it won't have negative consequences for you. All the best.

Amen

 

[TxRad]

I had a real estate flyer from Coldwell Banker Real Estate in my office mail this morning, addressed to me. They were selling the company I work for. It was an odd way, to say the least, to find out that the company where I've worked for 33+ years is up for sale.

There must be something going around. You're the second person I've heard that needs a new job in the last few days. That the company they have worked for for 25+ years is up for sale.

Sorry to hear about it. I hope you can retain any retirement benefits. I hope there are some. Mine went south when the bottom fell out of the oil field years back.

Got some writing done this afternoon and passed what i have along to my editor. I hear from her tomorrow or the next day, according to how much red ink she has to spread around. She might not like the way I changed the intro to the story. The new one makes it easier to start all stories in the series. In any case, tomorrow or the next day will tell.

Spaghetti for supper with garlic toast.

 

[NotWise]

Sorry to hear about it. I hope you can retain any retirement benefits. I hope there are some. Mine went south when the bottom fell out of the oil field years back.

It was all a little more absurd than it was surprising or insulting. I've been in forced semi-retirement since last summer, though I didn't really realize it until the owners went to Kenya and the Congo for a month in the fall and there was no work. I wrote stories.

The fact is that the principal turns 76 this spring. He's outlived most of his contacts and for the last few months he's had increasing problems with memory and communications. There's a good chance that he and/or his wife thought they'd discussed it with us.

They should have, because the flyer is selling my experience (not by name), and I won't stay around if the company sells. I'm more than two years past retirement and providing support for the principal is a big part of why I'm still here. The other big part is that my wife doesn't want me moping around at home.

The decline in the business and the ongoing need to pay for medical coverage may force me to retire anyway. The pension and all the other details are secure. It's a family owned business and for the most part they've taken care of me.

 

[MagicaPractica]

I had a real estate flyer from Coldwell Banker Real Estate in my office mail this morning, addressed to me. They were selling the company I work for. It was an odd way, to say the least, to find out that the company where I've worked for 33+ years is up for sale.

Bit of a shock.

 

[sharingfantasies]

It was all a little more absurd than it was surprising or insulting. I've been in forced semi-retirement since last summer, though I didn't really realize it until the owners went to Kenya and the Congo for a month in the fall and there was no work. I wrote stories.

The fact is that the principal turns 76 this spring. He's outlived most of his contacts and for the last few months he's had increasing problems with memory and communications. There's a good chance that he and/or his wife thought they'd discussed it with us.

They should have, because the flyer is selling my experience (not by name), and I won't stay around if the company sells. I'm more than two years past retirement and providing support for the principal is a big part of why I'm still here. The other big part is that my wife doesn't want me moping around at home.

The decline in the business and the ongoing need to pay for medical coverage may force me to retire anyway. The pension and all the other details are secure. It's a family owned business and for the most part they've taken care of me.

That is good at least. This may have been a bigger shock for your wife.

 

[NotWise]

That is good at least. This may have been a bigger shock for your wife.

Yeah. She's in denial.

 

[sharingfantasies]

Yeah. She's in denial.

Uh oh, the next step is anger.

 

[NotWise]

Uh oh, the next step is anger.

Yeah, that's not far away. I think she's worried that my retirement might mean that hers is impending, and she doesn't want to retire.

 

[sharingfantasies]

I guess it comes down to you. Or rather, how much time she wants to spend with you. She may decide to work the next ten years. LOL

 

[NotWise]

I guess it comes down to you. Or rather, how much time she wants to spend with you. She may decide to work the next ten years. LOL

She doesn't want to spend all that much time with me. She really likes her life right now, and changes are bad.

 

[sharingfantasies]

She doesn't want to spend all that much time with me. She really likes her life right now, and changes are bad.

You either need a new job or a hobby that takes you away from the house for long periods of time.

 

[NotWise]

You either need a new job or a hobby that takes you away from the house for long periods of time.

I have like four or five hobbies, including Lit. Most of them keep me at home. But yeah, I see your point.

 

[ChloeTzang]

I have like four or five hobbies, including Lit. Most of them keep me at home. But yeah, I see your point.

I'm a big advocate of the local coffee shop or library. Our local library has great workstations and a few first come first served small rooms you can use that are really great. When I'm not working days I'll quite often take my laptop in there and write. I know some of the library staff really well now, well enough to have coffee with them. And the local coffee shop. You start to get to know people after a while. The one thing you don't want is to get stuck at home. Recipe for disaster.

Good you don't have to worry about retirement tho. That's a good thing.

 

[NotWise]

I'm a big advocate of the local coffee shop or library.

Thanks, Chloe, but I see my future maybe more entwined with a bicycle or a table saw than with a coffee shop. At my age, sitting about is the norm. We die from the norm.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I'm a big advocate of the local coffee shop or library. Our local library has great workstations and a few first come first served small rooms you can use that are really great. When I'm not working days I'll quite often take my laptop in there and write. I know some of the library staff really well now, well enough to have coffee with them. And the local coffee shop. You start to get to know people after a while. The one thing you don't want is to get stuck at home. Recipe for disaster.

Ahh, good. Hot librarian stories, Chloe style. Just the thing as I edge into autumn.

I knew a librarian once, she showed me her dewey catalogue. At least, that's what she told me it was called...

 

[KindofHere]

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[TxRad]

NotWise, the first rule of retirement. Have a shop you can disappear into and even live in if need be. Out of sight, out of mind.

I hear the rumble of thunder to the north west so I think it is time for bed.

 

[oggbashan]

NotWise, the first rule of retirement. Have a shop you can disappear into and even live in if need be. Out of sight, out of mind.

...

I ran a secondhand bookshop for ten years. It kept me out of her way, out of the house, kept me amused and provided a service to the community.

It didn't make any money. Even the taxman accepted that. But it was fun.

 

[TxRad]

Morning all, welcome to Toesday. You know you want to play with them. Some of us are finding it harder and harder to reach them every day.

Fresh coffee is available, so come and get it before I drink it all.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Large e-black, please and thanks, good sir.

NowWise - so sorry to hear of your situation. I would agree that finding a refuge (be it in or out of your house) is critical. For two people who have grown used to seeing each other for six or eight hours a day (sleep doesn't count), all of a sudden having that bumped to 14 - 16 is going to be a shock, no matter how well they get along. Anyway, fingers crossed this works out for you.