: Retirement Check List
As some of you already know, I am now officially retired. But being retired does not mean that you are home free and can relax – there are many important new tasks that you need to take on to be a successful retiree. To help those of you out there who may be thinking of switching occupations and becoming a retiree, I’ve assembled a small check list of critical items:
Register for Medicare Part B
This entails going down to your local Social Security Office, sitting in a waiting room for several hours, then talking to a very nice person who – in a matter of a few minutes – takes your information and reassures you that everything is going to be just fine.
Get supplement Medical Insurance
This entails reading a bewildering assortment of confusing documents, wading through web sites giving the pros and cons of the alphabet soup of options available, talking to friends, choosing a provider, then spending hours on the phone giving someone in Florida the same personal information twice because the first time they choose the wrong plan, then talking to someone in Topeka Kansas – giving them the exact same personal information yet again because the nice person in Florida made an error entering your information the first time, then talking to another person from Topeka Kansas explaining why there are three applications in their computer system.
Get a new electric toothbrush
I can’t stress strongly enough the importance of good dental hygiene in senior citizens.
Sign up for medicare Part D drug coverage
Make absolutely sure that you have proof of creditable coverage. If you don’t know what that is, don’t worry about it – you’re screwed.
Get new T Shirts
You need to be covered in may ways – but meanwhile I’m still working on this one. I have very stringent requirements about t shirts. They have to be heavy duty cotton and they must have no friggin pictures or words or letters or insignia or slogans on them! DO YOU HEAR ME??? Yes, I’m talking to you- Berne T-Shirt Company!! You tricked me! You snuck your name on the left sleeve of that t shirt you sold me and it wasn’t in the picture on the web site! I’ll remember this!!
Sign up for dental insurance
I can’t stress strongly enough the importance of good dental hygiene in senior citizens. Get new sneakers I can’t stress strongly enough the importance of good footwear in senior citizens. And somehow, either my old sneakers shrunk or my feet have expanded. Go figure.
I likely missing several other important tasks but they seem to have left my mind at the moment . . . .
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January 27th, Saturday, 9:00ish PM-12:00ish
Better Off Dead at at Maxfields on Main
713 Main Street, Boonton, New Jersey 07005 973-588-4450
It’s a good start to the new year. They’re calling for a bit of rain tonight but don’t let that stop you. “Tastes Like Chicken”.
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February 17th, Saturday, 9:00ish PM-12:00ish
Shuffle Jump & Moan at at Maxfields on Main
713 Main Street, Boonton, New Jersey 07005 973-588-4450
And this brings up an important point that somehow I have overlooked. For years I have blindly inserted commas into the name thusly: “Shuffle, Jump, and Moan”. Notice that I also used “and” instead of the more succinct “&”. However, I have recently noticed – much to my embarrassment – that the correct moniker has no punctuation, it’s simply “Shuffle Jump & Moan”. I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, without punctuation you save two whole characters – thus saving precious time that would otherwise be spent typing all those extra commas. On the other hand, you are leaving yourself open to ambiguity. What’s going on here? Are you first doing a shuffle and then a jump? Or perhaps there is a special kind of jump – a “shuffle jump” – which is different than a regular run of the mill jump. Inquiring minds want to know.
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