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This is the latest in a series of occasional blog posts commenting on impending retirement.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here is a brief conversation that occurred this morning as I was leaving the Amarillo Town Club after my regular morning workout.<\/p>\n

ATC attendant<\/strong>: Have a good day, John; I’ll see you tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Me<\/strong>: Sure will. See ya.<\/p>\n

ATC attendant<\/strong>: Hey, tomorrow is Hump Day!<\/p>\n

Me<\/strong>: I reckon.<\/p>\n

Then it occurred to me as I walked toward my vehicle: Hey, I don’t have a “Hump Day” any longer.<\/p>\n

My sister and I have joked for some time now about the absence of deadline pressure in retirement. She and her husband have been retired fully for a while now. She laughs when people say, “Have a good weekend.” Her response? Yeah, whatever. For them, they enjoy a continual “weekend.”<\/p>\n

I’m now beginning to understand it all.<\/p>\n

I do work a couple of part-time jobs, one of which I do mostly at home. Back when I was a full-time working stiff, though, I rarely uttered the term “Hump Day,” only because it sounded so … so clich\u00e9<\/em>.<\/p>\n

This morning, though, I realized I crossed another barrier en route to full retirement. It is the realization that I have taken nearly full possession of my time.<\/p>\n

My wife and I have made several key decisions in recent months about our future. The latest decision was determining when I will start drawing my full Social Security, at which time I will join her as an SSI recipient.<\/p>\n

Hump Day? It’s now a part of my past. My next step just might be to stop wearing a watch on my wrist. That, I admit, will take some serious soul-searching.<\/p>\n\n

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This is the latest in a series of occasional blog posts commenting on impending retirement. Here is a brief conversation that occurred this morning as I was leaving the Amarillo Town Club after my regular morning workout. ATC attendant: Have a good day, John; I’ll see you tomorrow. Me: Sure will. See ya. ATC attendant: … Continue reading No more 'Hump Day'<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2218,3920,4301],"class_list":["post-5544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hump-day","tag-retirement","tag-social-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}