by Scott Darlington | Aug 19, 2016 | Vacation
We arrived at our vacation cottage in Old Orchard Beach, Maine on Saturday, August 6th, with a sense of excitement. Vacation at Last! I’ve been coming to Old Orchard Beach since I was five years old. It’s become a nostalgic place for me. For that matter,...
by Scott Darlington | Aug 2, 2016 | Vacation
My hockey buddies think it’s funny when I say I’m going on vacation for two weeks. Their retort, as you might expect, is that I’ve been on permanent vacation since I retired. In many ways, they’re right. My days consist mostly of stuff I want...
by Scott Darlington | Jul 30, 2016 | General
I’ve known for many years that I’d enjoy retirement. I even had a countdown timer on my whiteboard which I would update every morning when I got to the office. Although that fell by the wayside when I became an official work-from-home employee, retirement...
by Scott Darlington | Jul 12, 2016 | General
One of the things that caught me by surprise after retiring was a simple question: Who am I? First, though, some background. How I Decided to be an Electrical Engineer I knew in Grade 3 that I wanted to be an electrical engineer. My father had introduced me to...
by Scott Darlington | Jul 11, 2016 | Music
Taking music lessons has been a real ear-opening experience, far more so than I expected. For example, I’ve come to appreciate the sublime beauty of music more so than before. As a novice piano student, I’m learning fairly simple pieces. Still, they have...
by Scott Darlington | Jun 5, 2016 | General
When I was young, say about ten years old, time seemed to last forever. School would end near the end of June and wouldn’t start up again until early September. We would have about ten weeks off in the summer and the summer seemed to last forever. I would even...
by Scott Darlington | Mar 24, 2016 | General
Now that I am several months into my retirement, I’m noticing that I’m not getting as much done as I would like. I want to write at least weekly for this and the other websites I have. I also want to practice bass guitar and keyboards, which is needed to...
by Scott Darlington | Feb 3, 2016 | General
A common refrain of one of my retired friends, when asked how he’s doing, is “Busy, busy, busy!”. I used to think it was mostly a joke. Now that I’m a month and a half into my own retirement, though, I’m beginning to understand. When I...
Recent Comments