Marilyn's Photos - July 14 2025 - Early Retirement

 

The Globe and Mail has only one row of cartoons each morning.  At the bottom of the second or third page in the sports section - itself at the back of the business section.  So far back and yet so funny each day. Today's funniest cartoons?   "You can't retire early.  You're too old." "Your resume is great.  It's so great I am giving it to the AI bot that wrote it." Early retirement?  There's a notion that it is somewhere before 65. And to be early, doesn't it need to be in the 50s?  There are articles all the time on whether a person or couple have enough money to retire at some age like 50 or 55.  I always wonder why those people couldn't find things they enjoyed doing and then make them part of their work.  And then I wondered if there aren't other motivations for seeking "press" on their financial status. and then the ones I come up with are quite negative.   Pompous sense of self flaunts having lots of money by age 50 Seeking status for their financial saving success given they sacrificed everything And isn't that consistent with my sense of reality show participants.  We in the stands have grown used to these attention-seeking people over the last 25 years.  So I turned the page on that and went looking for Old Age quotes to enjoy - early retirement jokes aren't very popular: “We don’t grow older, we grow riper.” – Pablo Picasso “The older I get, the better I used to be.” – Lee Trevino “You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.” – Bob Hope “I’m not old. I’m 25 plus shipping and handling.” – Unknown “Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.” – Theodore Roosevelt

Picture of the day?  The Gourmet Niagara Porsche Day.  I took a picture of every car - Gerry's is the first one at the top left - in charge of the run.

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July 13 2024 - Warning Signs

 

There are a lot of warning signs and a lot is said about "warning signs" of this and that.  What we most often think of as a warning sign is a type of sign which indicates a potential hazard, obstacle, or condition requiring special attention.  I am thinking of the warning signs that give rise to satiric humour. Forbes has an article on 24 stunningly dumb warning labels.  Included in the article is the "warning" that this is my last free article. I get those a lot.  "Only a moron would try to wash her daughter in a washing machine; or shake hands with the business end of a chainsaw; or light a match to check the contents of a gas tank. And yet manufacturers continue to go to laughable lengths to protect their customers, bombarding them with ridiculous warning labels or stunningly obvious explanations of how their products work. Here are 24 of the best--er, worst--we found over the last four years"  Here's the article. Everyone should enjoy things like Nytol warning - May cause drowsiness. Product hair dryer:  do not use while sleeping. Blow torch warning:  Contents may catch fire.  Product eggs:  warning that this product may contain eggs.   Label: The Vanishing Fabric Marker should not be used as a writing instrument for signing checks or any legal documents.   Label (on website): Warning: This costume does not enable flight or super strength.  Product: Frankel's Costume Superman costumes.   This past Wednesday was Gerry's Fun Run event with the Porsches. He's checking them out as he heads to his car at the front of the line.

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Infinity Perspective of Porsche

t would be great to have two lines of Porsches like a cherry orchard and have an infinity perspective.  What would be at the meeting point? A disappearing line of Porsches also works wonderfully, and they were at Flat Rock Cellars on Saturday.  This isn't your standard Getty image of lanes of queuing cars.  I guess that's why it is called a 'Fun Run'.