Gene E. Bloch wrote:
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... :-)


It's modern life.

Imagine Leonardo Da Vinci in retirement; and a lady reporter keeps
knocking on his door. "Is it true, Senr. Da V, that you dissected human
corpses? Is it true that your Gioconda smile was induced with wine? Is
it true that you designed murderous war-weapons?"

Ed