How'd it go today?

[squisher]

Damn straight I am. The way I'm simplifying my life soon I'm going to be right out of things to complain about.

 

[FireFighterZero]

Ha!

Ain't no one has a greater capacity to bitch than a working stiff.......no one.

Capt maybe a farmer.

 

[squisher]

I have a unique thing though that I refer to as. ...........perspective. Helps me smile all day long, knowing there's no customers for me to deal with.

 

[FireFighterZero]

I pray to glob it stays like that for you.

Sincerely so.

 

[squisher]

I hope so too. The beauty of having reinvented myself so many times though is now I'm fearless about employment. If it doesn't work out how I think. I'll quit. The money, benefits, and pension help me smile too.

 

[pantheraba]

You are a Cheshire cat!

 

[FireFighterZero]

Good luck.

With a good enough town job you should be able to afford to farm on the side.....you know, if you need the write offs!

 

[squisher]

Nahhh. I'm going to kayak, paddleboard , horseback ride, motorbike ride, and ski on the side. I hope, once the dust settles. Oh yah I forgot travelling, gonna take a frigging actual holiday again in a winter. Where I jump on a plane and go someplace hot! Been almost ten years since my last winter vacation. I really feel like I should've made this move when I first sold my tree biz and not continued to frig around with self-employment.

Won't be to long I hope and the farm will sell and when I move back to my old place I'll have a less than 15min commute to work. Even found out end of the month I think I'm eligible for a company fuel card. 10-12 cents/litre off of pump price. Expenses are plummeting.

Every time I make a move to simplify my life i feel weight lifting from me. Soon I'm going to be floating around like that baby trump blimp in England.

 

[FireFighterZero]

Famous last words.....

 

[squisher]

Geez Jim. I feel like I've struck a nerve with you lately or something?

Remember however you're feeling about your lot in life, has nothing to do with me. Besides I'm one of the nasty Canadians who's been taking advantage of you for so long.

You wish me well in one post and then throw up a famous last words in the next? Heh. I wish you well too.

 

[FireFighterZero]

No, not at all.

Just giving you shit.

I wish you and yours well.

All I am going to say is thank glob for Walmart.

All those folks who were gonna see the world and recreate 24 7 would be in tough shape if Walmart was not hiring greeters the way they are.

 

[squisher]

Well then back at ya with the shit.

Was just sort of reading between the lines that you think I'm full of it or something?

When I verbal diarrhoea on here with my long time pals I'm not trying to put forth a philosophy that I think works for all or saying anyone else should do as I do. I'm just talking about where I'm at and what I'm doing.

These changes have been invigorating for me. makes me feel alive again. If that changes for me, I'll make changes again. But I'm only getting older now, unfortunately. And I feel like I'm on a good path for myself.

 

[cory]

Cool interview, Stig.

Thanks, Raj for the info.

 

[squisher]

All I am going to say is thank glob for Walmart.

All those folks who were gonna see the world and recreate 24 7 would be in tough shape if Walmart was not hiring greeters the way they are.

I'm not really sure what this references in relation to our back and forth Jim. I boycott Wally World, haven't been there for years now.

 

[FireFighterZero]

My humor does not translate well tonight....

Maybe it never does?

 

[squisher]

Sure it does Jim. I just wasn't following is all.

Jim, I've never met you and I consider you a good friend. Never feel bad about saying what's on your mind.

Who gas if I get it or not brother. Just be you.

 

[pantheraba]

I don't GAS, for sure....

Invigoration is good...makes the world seem like it might actually be all right.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Jim's OK - for a groundling!

 

[treebilly]

Jim’s great in my book.

I was fortunate enough to personally meet Paul Cox and his family yesterday. Great, welcoming family they are. I think our wives agreed that if we hung out on a regular basis we would cause all sorts of chaos. Only bad thing was I had 7 more hours to drive so we had to behave. Got home around 2 am. Almost like being young again.

 

[FireFighterZero]

Justin....I understand where you are more than most.

I am very excited for you. 100 percent.

I look up to you like the kid that got out of the neighborhood and made something of himself.

I will leave this station in life in a pine box.


Give er hell.

 

[FireFighterZero]

Wow!

Paul Cox!

 

[squisher]

Yah. That's cool Rich

Thanks Jim.

 

[pantheraba]

I think our wives agreed that if we hung out on a regular basis we would cause all sorts of chaos. .......Almost like being young again.

hahaha...I think you are both roustabouts! Sounds like an invigorating visit...good stuff.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Paul's all mad at me.

 

[treebilly]

Now I just need him to head out my way. Since I owe him a dinner now oh how I despise being in the negative.