Butterflies in my stomach every time I realize just how little time there is left before I retire! Didn't expect to be so anxious, lol. It's a good anxious, not bad or worried. It's more like I've had a job ever since I was about 16, with some short term jobs even before that, but at 16 started working a real job at what was then called the "Picnic Pantry", which was a kind of a convenience store on base at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. My dad was stationed there and I was in the 10th grade at the time. Worked in the afternoons after school and on weekends. Can't even remember what the pay was, but it wasn't really much. Great for a 10th grader though, lol. Later on, as a senior, I got work at the Shakey's Pizza Parlor down on Riverside Drive in Clarksville, Tennessee. Talk about a great job for a senior in high school! With Austin Peay State University just up the street, oh yeah. College girls, nuff said.

After graduation from high school it was off to the military, got out in 1980 and went into police work while staying in the active reserves till 2002 when I retired from the Army Reserve. Continued on with the police work till now, or at least, till this November 30th, eh? LOL.

So, actually, this will be the first time I didn't have a job for any length of time in my life since I was 16. I may go ahead and find something to do part time, etc, but I don't have to if I don't want to, or if I can't find anything I really want to do, which is going to be very, very odd.

I'm sure I'll find a way to get over it, ya think?

Mac