tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075548.post113623004154236699..comments2023-10-30T09:14:15.869-04:00Comments on Kitten on the Keyboard: Kittenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01410148963074571579noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075548.post-1136520632587837772006-01-05T23:10:00.000-05:002006-01-05T23:10:00.000-05:00Doyle! Thanks for the take on the "hang" time. I d...Doyle! Thanks for the take on the "hang" time. I did the same thing when I was coming up on my vestment time. I wasn't sure I would make it to ten years at that time. And that was 13 years ago! A mere nineteen months and some days I can do standing on my head! <BR/><BR/>After that, I only have to take it one month at a time. One month at a time. Yeah...I can do it!Kittenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01410148963074571579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6075548.post-1136331064769858282006-01-03T18:31:00.000-05:002006-01-03T18:31:00.000-05:00I still have to work for nineteen months and 29 da...<I>I still have to work for nineteen months and 29 days to get my full retirement. I can hang on that long.</I><BR/><BR/>Hang on! I opted for an early out window but to max my pension before the window closed, my "hang on" time was close to three years. Three seemingly endless years.<BR/><BR/>I printed (page after page after page) of those months (month after month after month) off a danged dot matrix printer at work one day. A massive puddle of paper on the floor that I then folded along the separations.<BR/><BR/>I'd x-out days and then draw a line through the week once it was completed. When the month was over, I'd <B>X</B> it out, and then refold so that the next month was there.<BR/><BR/>Looking back, it seemed all of a sudden I was down to just a few pages. The last page. The last week and then . . .<BR/><BR/>Ya know, six years after I scratched out that last day I still have them.<BR/><BR/>Hang on.<BR/><BR/>(If I'd missed the window, the next time I'd have been eligible for the same years-of-service percentage would have been . . . NEXT September! Unless I disabled out before that, at a lower percentage naturally, because I'd ended up in the looney bin.)doylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00336698909563418555noreply@blogger.com