What have you been up to lately?

[OldSailor85]

I am so ready for winter to be over. February seems like the longest month even though it is one of the shortest. What keeps me going through the winter is working on my collection of motorcycles. Always something to fix or upgrade. But that just makes me even more anxious for spring to come around! Managed to finish up the rebuild on my 1965 BMW R 60/2.
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Looks like you still have a few pieces to go!

 

[Crazyboat]

Been retired 5 years.

FWIW, I've been a hack guitar player for years. I haven't gotten any better since I retired, either.

Had a whole plan for taking out IRA, ROTH, annuity payments/withdrawals to maintain something like 80% of my working income (single income household). I have not had to touch anything yet. Even bought my newest-to-me old boat.

So much for plans. No longer "saving" for retirement was the biggest reduction in spending.

For me, we had to be debt free before retiring. Thankfully, the misses isn't a spendthrift. Her car is a 2009 and it only has around 30k on it. No house, boat, or car payments. Just maintenance.

Taxes and Insurance is a killer and you have little control over them. Figuring out Medicare, if you are old enough. Just paid nearly $3k in property taxes for 6 months.

Right now, health insurance is $1000 a month for the two of us.

I'm an intermediate player, a shame we don't live closer, I'd gladly play with you, maybe get you better. It was a lot more natural for me at 15 then it is now at 62. But I am learning.

 

[Crazyboat]

I am so ready for winter to be over. February seems like the longest month even though it is one of the shortest. What keeps me going through the winter is working on my collection of motorcycles. Always something to fix or upgrade. But that just makes me even more anxious for spring to come around! Managed to finish up the rebuild on my 1965 BMW R 60/2.
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Nice hobby, nice bike, hope you get her back together for spring.

 

[jlake1958]

I am so ready for winter to be over. February seems like the longest month even though it is one of the shortest. What keeps me going through the winter is working on my collection of motorcycles. Always something to fix or upgrade. But that just makes me even more anxious for spring to come around! Managed to finish up the rebuild on my 1965 BMW R 60/2.
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not really pertinent to fishing but that flat 4 head arrangement made me recall an unfortunate situation that happened in my twenties...I'm 67 now.
I just turned onto a local "twisty" road for some spirited driving in my 70 GTO. Ahead of me was a motorcyclist on a version of that BMW....well, the game was afoot.
Driving this 25-30mph road at closer to 55mph racing the motorcycle was a hoot until it wasn't. I knew this road intimately and as we approached a blind, radically reducing apex curve, I could tell the motorcyclist did not see it coming and AT SPEED. I was already on my brakes as I saw him spark the right foot peg heavily and he instantly high sided the bike into the oncoming lane....first impact was inside of left knee on pavement, then faceshield of helmet on pavement---RIGHT across the apex of oncoming traffic. Sure enough, here comes a 70's era Monte Carlo at that moment......
I was already stopped but I watched that rider slam into the sheet metal RIGHT behind the oncoming driver's front wheel. Well, that motorcyclist guy's eyes were the size of dinner plates as he bounced off that car (after getting slammed from behind by his own motorcycle) back across the road and he and the motorcycle were in the ditch back on my side of the road. He was thinking I was going to run him over as he bounced off the Monte Carlo.
I was already out of the car, yelled to a jogger to to to a house right there and call an ambulance. The Monte Carlo had stopped on impact so I went to the rider and had to physically restrain him from standing up too soon. I stayed with him until the abulance showed---only about 10 minutes. He wanted to stand so I helped him up but that left knee joint was moving in very un natural ways so i helped him to the ambulance.
After the dust settled I was standing looking at his motorcycle and realized the pavement had grinded the left side head all the way in to the piston cylinder as it grinded across about 25 feet of road.
Not a great memory and I always wondered how the motorcyclist made out afterwards. One thing for DAMN SURE...that helmet saved the guys life! It was ground down quite a ways from the impact with the road...