On 2/01/2014, Ed Cryer posted:
Ed Cryer wrote:
Ed Cryer wrote:
Ed Cryer wrote:
Ken Blake wrote:
On Sat, 01 Feb 2014 14:30:58 +0000, Ed Cryer

wrote:


I'm retired too. But some how or other I've taken on so much to
do
that
I can't figure how I ever had time to go to work.


LOL! Same here, and I've even cut back on a lot of volunteer
things I
used to do.


I was hoping that when I retired I might become a spokesman for
humanity; a bit like Bono, who tells us all about the rising
Tiger
economy, how Africa and India are on the rise, and other such
stuff of
international importance.
Instead I appear to have become humanity's workhorse. Everybody
who
knows me and the skills I have comes along and asks me to do
this, that
and the other. So I mend computers, do gardens, teach languages
and
history on the Net, and a million other such things.
(-:

Ed




Or maybe I could astound the scientific world by discovering how
the
brain generates mind. And get a Nobel Prize. Me there, alongside
Peter
Higgs.
But no.

Ed


Or maybe write a novel from a God's-eye point of view, like Tolstoy
and
Dostoevsky.
Or create a political ideology like Marx; give the world something
to
aim for, restore Eden.
Or set an example like Che Guevara.

Ed


Or win Wimbledon for a Brit, after 70 years.
Or bring the planets into alignment with music, like Bill and Ted.
Or create something new, like a cuckoo clock.

Ed

Now I understand your problem!

You spend so much time and energy on ideas that there's nothing left
for implementation.

I've got lots of time for implementation. All I need is an idea... :-)

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)