And, to encapsulate all of the post-retirement resolutions I made and am fulfilling:

--I will write whenever I want and as much as I want.

--I will paint whenever I want and as much as I want.

--I will knit whenever I want and as much as I want.

--I will no longer attend meetings in which all people do is pick my brain.

--I will offer ideas that will work ONLY if I execute them myself. Should other people steal those ideas, those ideas will NOT work.

--If someone wants to take me somewhere, he had better make arrangements to pick me up and take me home. I am available only via door-to-door shipping.

--I will remember all the betrayals and offensive words and acts done to me in the past, and now it is time for me to RECIPROCATE. I am doing these people a favor by making them pay their karma NOW rather than in another lifetime.