Personal:
- Family: Wife and 2 adult children (both living in Boston)
- Residence: Born and raised in the midwest (I am a flat-lander through and through) although I may acquire a second home in Montana or Alaska
- Retired early so I would have time to enjoy life, family and good health
- Things completed this year
- Made a trip to Florida to spend a long week with brother and sister-in-law
- 2 trips to YNP
- Quit smoking in March
- Spent a full 10 day session at Boy Scout Camp
- Lost 45+ pounds on the Smart For Life Cookie Diet
- Completed Concealed Carry Handgun training
- Completed NRA pistol shooting instructor training
- Am certified as a CCH Trainer
- Completed Ham Radio ARRL Technician level certification
- Started my first blog (you are in it right now)
- Acquired my first and second spotting scope and have been attempting and perfecting my digiscoping techniques
- Things I enjoy:
- Family
- Friends
- Good conversation
- Fiddling with technology
- Ham Radio
- Boy Scouting
- Fowl hunting
- Camping
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Daily exercise walks
- Training and working with hunting dogs
- ATVs, ATV riding, getting muddy and driving through water and going places you can’t drive to any other way
- Making ham radio antennas
- Researching almost anything technological on the web
- Reading
- Working with computers
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December 6, 2007 at 10:18 pm
Barry
From what did you retire early?
December 7, 2007 at 2:12 pm
Russ Lindsay
I was a telecomm computer geek. I was part of the plannning process for technology (mainly computing technology.) I was the guy who watched the horizon for trends and used the base technologies (storage manufacturing techniques and chip production processes) to derive where the computing equipment would go and then applied that to our comuting needs. When we were trying to figure out whether Macs or PCs were the way to go, I was a part of the decsion process by providing white papers and opinions on each platform’s technology direction.
I got caught up in one of the many lay-offs in the telcomm industry and decided that it was time to enjoy life and leave the rat race to the youth in our society.