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Phil Frances
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| Posted: 17 December 2025 at 9:36am | IP Logged | 1
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But fruit flies prefer a banana*
At nearly 60 years old, I've given up work in favour of Real Life. Seems that I quite enjoy it.
Q for JB - wondered if you might 'potter' as I do - bit of modelling, bit of painting ; nothing too interruptive. Wondered if your pencils still come out - even for your own amusement ?
Apols - not seeking to be intrusive ; just interested.
*the late great Terry Wogan ; if you've not heard the Janet & John stories ... well, YouTube will provide.
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Trevor Smith
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| Posted: 17 December 2025 at 10:45am | IP Logged | 2
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I don't really know if I can afford to retire completely at
60, but I'll be 59 when my current continuing ed cycle
ends, and *that* particular chapter of my life will
probably end at that point. Congrats!
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Michael Penn
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| Posted: 17 December 2025 at 12:36pm | IP Logged | 3
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Retired at 60 -- very lucky! Enjoy!
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 17 December 2025 at 12:41pm | IP Logged | 4
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I do almost nothing. Since my licorice adventure, I’ve been lazy as never before. I plan on January 1 to get back to inking ELSEWHEN.
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Michael Penn
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| Posted: 17 December 2025 at 12:58pm | IP Logged | 5
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What do you do, JB, for physical fitness?
(My late father got into his 90s but sedentary -- not good.)
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 17 December 2025 at 1:14pm | IP Logged | 6
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Sedentary is my superpower.
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Michael Penn
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| Posted: 17 December 2025 at 1:20pm | IP Logged | 7
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Don't sit all day, man! At least take a daily constitutional.
As Rodgers & Hammerstein put it (mutatis mutandis): "one foot, other foot, one foot, other foot..."
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John Byrne
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I’m 75 years old. Being a couch potato has got me this far. None of my physical ills have been due to my lifestyle choices (except the licorice adventure).*I suspect that if I started taking better care of myself, the shock would kill me! ——— * My Type 2 diabetes is spread over several sources, which combined could be considered as “lifestyle”.
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Robert Bradley
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I retired two years ago at 60. Having a real pension is nice, especially since its based on working at the same place for 43 years. Now with the addition of social security I'm making about $10,000 more a year than I was working and having less taken out in taxes.
My time is generally spent either helping out my elderly mother, reading or working on my sports research with another book in mind (this time it will be one on the history of women's professional basketball) or to sell my work to Basketball-Reference.com for their site.
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Phil Frances
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| Posted: 17 December 2025 at 5:10pm | IP Logged | 10
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'I suspect that if I started taking better care of myself, the shock would kill me!'
Haha - exercise is good, but a survey a couple of years ago reckoned you get about as much benefit from thinking about it as doing it, so I tend to do the former ... although I WILL get back to walking in the New Year - I dropped a stone or so between middle of 2024 and July 2025. Managed to walk the equivalent of the length of Italy in those months, plus some.
I had to slow off when I injured my knee installing a bookcase into a fitted wardrobe. Something seemed to split, and then pain. Oooch.
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John Byrne
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I dropped a stone…••• Not on your foot, I hope! Thanks to the miracle that is Ozempic, I am below 200 pounds for the first time since my 20s.
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Jonathan A. Dowdell
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Phil, I am also 59 -- turn 60 mid-2026 -- I hope retirement is not too far away... Your pottering sounds great! Congrats
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