[capt_buzzard]

Originally Posted by cars

I went to my Retirement party today thrown by my Fellow workers. (86 strong, & many others had outside commitments) It was great, in a nice restaurant, in a private room! The food was really good, and the "roasting" they did on me was pretty funny. I got some nice gifts, and a few funny ones. Like they gave My wife "Boxing Gloves"! Pretty funny, I got a Fishing hat, great fishing rod, some hand-made lures, a couple of plaques of Aircraft, and a signed Matted Aircraft picture with all my friends signatures and well wishes just like they used to do in a high-school picture book. They also gave me a big cash gift to buy what ever I wanted. Again it was great! We all had fun! But that was like the "final" get together, (Final Farewell) between us all, sought of the end of the end. Really sad in a way, now it's really over! When I left on 1/31/05 I still knew this day was still coming. However, I did give a pretty darn good farewell speech, even if I do say so myself! I hope I can get used to not going to work. As I've mentioned before work is all I've ever known for the last 44 years!! I'm still getting up between 4:00 to 4:30am. Hopefully when I get used to being retired, I will learn to sleep later, sure hope so! I will miss my friends at work, some of them were like "second- family" to me. I will try to keep in contact with a few of my best friends outside of work, at our houses. (Wish me luck, I'm going to need it)
Cars

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