Alex wrote:
I suggest wearing two watches - you will have more time on your hands to do the things you want.
Very funny! :-) Seriously, I am very grateful. When I go to college reunions I am reminded that not every baby boomer gets to retire. My NASA career (I had several careers before NASA) spanned from the fourth shuttle flight to more than a year after the last shuttle flight. I was involved in various spacecraft navigation projects, mainly dealing with GPS, and had a really good time both as a developer and project manager, but never stopped developing right up to my last day of work. I volunteered for what turned out to be the last of many United Space Alliance layoffs, so managed to get some severance pay. Not "having time" is all good, I just have a long list of projects I want to do. I've done a lot of them already, like blowing away the firmware of a wireless router with dd-wrt, upgrading my Soekris Leaf box (google is your friend to know what that is), making a standing desk, running Fractint on my phone. A few of them are partially done, like creating some virtual machines to run environments that can build Fractint, establishing a Google plus presence. The list increases faster than the projects get done. :-) Tim