Hello everyone! I'm just another old isolated single guy with a bagful of health issues I'm working on and deep insights to share with the world. Part of that is even true! Being new, I'm going to stumble a lot but do my best not to step on toes. Sadly I may already have broken that vow in my initial posts. Sorry. From my browsing it appears there is quite a cast of characters here though. That always makes things fun. So thank you for welcoming another fuss budget into your community. I guarantee that before long you'll be saying "That was so funny I forgot to laugh!"
Hi Don. No, I just needed to pick a name and persona and this is what came to me. I know a few Amish folks though, and I didn't intend any disrespect. Nice to meet you though, Sir.
I can add some more details, since I didn't spill much above. Closing in fast on 68 here. I've been retired 12 going on 13 years. Living alone now for... about 24 years. I'll try not to be too socially awkward though, my years post-retirement might best be described as "hermit."
What area are you from. You don't need to give specifics of course, but it is nice to know what state or area of the country or the world you are in.
I went through one marriage pretty quickly and was divorced in 1980. I've been alone since, except for the infrequent dating. I retired in 2015 and had been very active with 2 non-profits and a "charge" of 3 small churches. >One non-profit ran out of funds and volunteers in 2018 >The other non-profit broke down from within the same year >COVID and the mandated closings destroyed the 3 churches and all their community activities I had my social network all planned out. I used to have reasons to get off of the compound. Now I scream at the clouds. I am still polite to retail workers.
Yeah, that's an obvious one that should have occurred to me. Central lower Michigan, not a long way from Lansing and maybe 85 miles from Detroit.