[Rhodes22-list] Brad's birthday.

[Brad Haslett]

Mary Lou,

Bring your commie pinko friends to our dinner table.  We shoot,
but we're not prejudiced, we shoot at everybody.  This should be fun! We
have the best Chinese food in town - Beijing for that matter.

Brad


On 9/29/06, TN Rhodey <tnrhodey at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Mary Lou,
>
> What festival? Any links?
>
> Wally
>
>
> >From: Mary Lou Troy <mtroy at atlanticbb.net>
> >Reply-To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> >To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> >Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Brad's birthday.
> >Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 13:56:46 -0400
> >
> >At 09:01 AM 9/29/2006, you wrote:
> >>Mary Lou,
> >>
> >>Congratulations on your upcoming retirement!  More sailing?
> >
> >Thanks Brad. Yes more sailing, more time to travel on a small scale and
> >most importantly to me right now more time to spend with family and
> friends
> >- also time to think about what else I might want to do.
> >
> >>   Also in the
> >>mail yesterday was an investment magazine from T Rowe Price with an
> >>article
> >>on the time value of money.  If you invested $4000 per year annually
> from
> >>age 25 until age 65 you'd have $1.123,124 in the bank. Let's see, in
> 1981
> >>I
> >>was making $700 per month jerking gear for a commuter airline, paying
> off
> >>student loans, and expecting my oldest.  Nope, don't think I had an
> extra
> >>four grand that year.  Guess I'll have to work a bit longer.
> >
> >In 1981 I was a bit older than 25 but I was a single parent who had just
> >completed grad school and was making $15K until I got laid off and was
> out
> >of work for 9 months.
> >
> >I had the good fortune a few years later to meet Fred who's a bit older
> >than me. He didn't have any money either having just come off a divorce
> but
> >he did work for a company that provided retiree medical. We put my
> daughter
> >through college, bought a Rhodes 22 and threw enough at our mortgage to
> pay
> >it off in 17 years. Fred was offered an early retirement 5 years ago.
> When
> >we (I) came to the realization that it isn't stuff that makes us happy -
> I
> >decided it's time to retire. I'm looking forward to it.
> >
> >BTW, We're gonna be in Memphis in Feb. for a commie pinko gathering of
> folk
> >musicians. We'll probably have time if you are going to be around.
> >
> >Best,
> >Mary Lou
> >1991 R22 Fretless
> >Swan Creek (Rock Hall, MD)
> >
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