I have been thinking about something for some time.
It would represent a huge amount of work but maybe it would be worth it.
I have thought about making a book that contains many of the items from this column, which I have written for each and every week without a miss since the launch of this newspaper.
Then, to get into a crazy thinking mode, I thought I could take the net proceeds from the book and start a fund for a journalism scholarship at Hillsboro High School.
If this is a crazy idea, please tell me so I can quit thinking about it. Or if you think it might be a good idea, tell me that, too, so I can get busy working on the book.
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I didn’t major in math, but I think I just figured out what some of my eye drops cost per gallon and I believe it was in excess of $450. I also figured out some cough syrup I have used in the past cost in excess of $150 per gallon.
I must have chosen the wrong business.
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And I have a pill that costs about $300 per month when I’m in the doughnut hole that cost just $45 per month last year.
The problem with the pill is that it works, so what are you going to do? There is another one that costs much less that I am going to try as soon as I run out of the last of the other ones.
I have already tried to buy more at the old price, but I can only buy one month’s worth at a time.
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Some people ask me if I have retired and my answer is usually that I am transitioning into it.
When I sold my interest to Joey and Lindsey in April of 2014, the agreement was that I would stay on until April of 2017, which is just around the corner.
The board had a meeting during 2016 and asked me to stay on another year, which I gladly agreed to do.
After all, what would I do all day if I wasn’t involved with the company? And I know that Nancy does not—I repeat, does not—want me around the house every day.
So far I get to leave when I want to and did plenty of that this past year, being gone in January, May, September and November. It was a great year to travel and I see more of it on the horizon.
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I was reading that folks who retire, do much of their traveling in the early years of retirement—“while they still can,” so to speak—and before the money is gone.
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This past Wednesday morning, or during the night I should say, I looked at the clock in our bedroom and it showed 4:23. The next time I looked it was 1:30 and I thought it might be getting light outside already. Then in a very short time it was time to get up.
We know the electricity was off but I didn’t think it could back up the time on the clock. The clock used to shine the time on the ceiling, but that part is broken.
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If you wish to share your comments or ideas, my e-mail address is joel@
hillsborofreepress.com.
