Simply random stuff

[somethingcleveridunno]

^Me in my own mind when I press a button to mute the L and R channels in a surround mix^

 

[Rstaylor]

A few of the tapes are home movies, but most are TV shows. I haven’t checked in a couple of years, but when Imdid, the shows wereen’t available commercially.

Yes, a tape will undoubtedly play best on the deck that recorded it. A lot of adjustments for cross-compatibility could be a bit off, but the deck will still put signals down on the tape, albeit not exactly where the spec says they belong. I think I’m still reasonably capable of aligning a VHS (or Beta, or U-matic) deck, but I might have to do some fiddling with control track electronics if that project ever gets close to the top of the list.

It’s incredible how much stuff I have to do now that I’m retired.

I'm hoping to retire myself! Maybe in March.
I have plenty to keep me busy for a very long time.
I have about 300 VHS tapes to go through and see what I really want to keep. A lot of music related programs recorded from over tha air TV.
I'm a long time vinyl and cd hoarder as well...
No concrete plans, but I hope to considerably downsize my collection of both.
I don't even want to think about the tape decks and receivers I have amassed!

 

[barfle]

I'm hoping to retire myself! Maybe in March.
I have plenty to keep me busy for a very long time.
I have about 300 VHS tapes to go through and see what I really want to keep. A lot of music related programs recorded from over tha air TV.
I'm a long time vinyl and cd hoarder as well...
No concrete plans, but I hope to considerably downsize my collection of both.
I don't even want to think about the tape decks and receivers I have amassed!

If you check out my room build, it's clear I have no interest in downsizing my collection! I have pretty much gotten rid of any tapes I'd collected. I did not have good luck with any format tape deck - open reel, 8-track, or cassette.

I spent a lot of my career working on security recorders, open reel, beta and VHS, so they don't scare me, even if I consider them unreliable. I only need one to work for a week or two - I might have 20 tapes that I'd like to digitize.

I have a few pieces of leftover gear from the old days. Refurbishing them is on my bucket list, but not all that close to the top yet.

 

[GOS]

I'm hoping to retire myself! Maybe in March.
I have plenty to keep me busy for a very long time.
I have about 300 VHS tapes to go through and see what I really want to keep. A lot of music related programs recorded from over tha air TV.
I'm a long time vinyl and cd hoarder as well...
No concrete plans, but I hope to considerably downsize my collection of both.
I don't even want to think about the tape decks and receivers I have amassed!

Whenever I see someone debating retiring.....curious how old you are? I'll be 62 shortly, and I'm itching to retire. Though, 65 is more realistic in my situation I guess.

 

[H.A.L.]

Whenever I see someone debating retiring.....curious how old you are? I'll be 62 shortly, and I'm itching to retire. Though, 65 is more realistic in my situation I guess.

Like my dad, I retired at 65, although I stretched SS out to 66 with part-time. Retirement age keeps
getting pushed longer, so it is a luck of the birth year draw atm, and probably going to get worse even if
SS survives. . . .

He lived to nearly 95. Hmm. I do watch my finances, just in case, but am quite THRILLED over retirement.

And yes, there is a ton of stuff to do on the homefront that you shuffled aside over the years for work, but it is much
more pleasurable to do in your "spare" time -- if you can be bothered, haha!

 

[GOS]

Like my dad, I retired at 65, although I stretched SS out to 66 with part-time. Retirement age keeps
getting pushed longer, so it is a luck of the birth year draw atm, and probably going to get worse even if
SS survives. . . .

He lived to nearly 95. Hmm. I do watch my finances, just in case, but am quite THRILLED over retirement.

And yes, there is a ton of stuff to do on the homefront that you shuffled aside over the years for work, but it is much
more pleasurable to do in your "spare" time -- if you can be bothered, haha!

My dad worked until he was 75. I suspect he may have worked even longer; only macular degeneration took away his eyesight. I have no real way to know if he had to work, or more just his generation. Seems my parents didn't have much while I was a kid, even an adult.

I doubt he had any sort of savings account and certainly didn't inherit anything at all when his parents died. Farmers back in the day just didn't easily make much money. Those that inherited farmland from their parents had a much better chance.

 

[barfle]

Whenever I see someone debating retiring.....curious how old you are? I'll be 62 shortly, and I'm itching to retire. Though, 65 is more realistic in my situation I guess.

I retired at 67, ten years ago (the math isn’t hard). I decided it was time when a new company took over the contract I was working on, and “meet the new boss, same as the old boss” wasn’t about to fly any more. I got tired of being the only one who gave a rip about my job, and I was already tired of driving 45 minutes each way through Washington, DC.

I never looked back.

 

[barfle]

My dad worked until he was 75. I suspect he may have worked even longer; only macular degeneration took away his eyesight. I have no real way to know if he had to work, or more just his generation. Seems my parents didn't have much while I was a kid, even an adult.

I doubt he had any sort of savings account and certainly didn't inherit anything at all when his parents died. Farmers back in the day just didn't easily make much money. Those that inherited farmland from their parents had a much better chance.

My dad reired at about 60, when GM bought Hughes and changed everything. Mom went through the finances, and showed him how they were in shape to make it happen, and they did quite well, both living almost untill they were 98, and leaving a nice chunk of change to their heirs.

 

[Bruce00]

I retired at 67, ten years ago (the math isn’t hard). I decided it was time when a new company took over the contract I was working on, and “meet the new boss, same as the old boss” wasn’t about to fly any more. I got tired of being the only one who gave a rip about my job, and I was already tired of driving 45 minutes each way through Washington, DC.

I never looked back.

Same situation, end of my career took a job at a large Pharmaceutical company as a maintenance tech. Figured I could last till 70 driving around in a golf cart.
7 yrs in, the company outsourced my dept. After 1 yr, my new company said enough and another company came in, that's when I decided I had enough. Went on SS disability at 61.
Just wished I understood the IRS rules on withdrawal of retirement funds at 61
Never looked back either

 

[ar surround]

and I was already tired of driving 45 minutes each way through Washington, DC.

Often it is a long and ugly commute that throws the retirement decision over the top.

In my case, I was leaving home early to keep the morning commute down to 45 minutes. But the commute home was always an hour to 75 minutes, no matter how late I stayed. (Plus, the car stereo system was lousy. Lol)

And finally my commute got even longer when I had to abandon my shortcut because some people got wacked during a daytime drive-by shooting along that route.

 

[Sonik Wiz]

What a shame:

https://nypost.com/2024/12/27/us-ne...estroyed-by-fire-while-occupied-by-squatters/

 

[Bruce00]

Often it is a long and ugly commute that throws the retirement decision over the top.

In my case, I was leaving home early to keep the morning commute down to 45 minutes. But the commute home was always an hour to 75 minutes, no matter how late I stayed. (Plus, the car stereo system was lousy. Lol)

And finally my commute got even longer when I had to abandon my shortcut because some people got wacked during a daytime drive-by shooting along that route.

Bet your glad not to be dealing with the I-80 fiasco this week.