Retire?
Posted on | June 26, 2009 | Comments Off
No.
I do not want to work too hard.
No surprise there. But there were times when I did. Elaine remarked one time that I am not afraid of hard work. This after watching me weed, dig, chop, and dig some more for three months to get the first beds ready to seed.
But I do want to work. I thought about that. And it is more than the money. I do not need or want much money. I want a car that will get me to trailheads. Shoes. Not much, really. I want to be active. Purposeful. And I enjoy the creative process. The problem solving.
See the nav bar on the right side of the page? On a Macintosh using OS 10.5, it is a vertical blue band with rounded ends. If a web page is short enough to not need a nav bar, some browsers, such as Firefox and Safari displace the contents of that page to the right. Or stated another way, if a nav bar comes, literally, into the picture, the page contents are displaced to the left. At first I did not know that was the cause of the problem. I thought I had made a mistake structuring pages in the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS). Hours. Then I noticed the jump came on pages with a lot of content, and that led me to the solution. Here is the code that corrects the problem. Actually, it is a hack. It puts a nav bar on every page, regardless of the amount of the content.
/*this is to keep page from shifting to left on load in safari and firefox*/
html { min-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 1px; }
html { overflow: -moz-scrollbars-vertical !important; }
It was so very much fun to solve that problem. I found this code from another developer.
So there it is. We now have just about as much work as we want. Actually, a bit more than I want. Mark and Harry are younger and have greater financial demands. We were talking today about how much we want to do. I can help them get work and keep a limit on how much I participate. That is our likely solution. It is a fine problem to have. We are fortunate.
I wrote that one of my fantasies for a do-over life would be to live for a long time in three great cities. Right now, I had rather garden. And hike. And do some work. So that is what I shall do.
Walk well. God is love.
