Our heartiest congratulations to you, tom911! Here is a picture of the retirees, magic111 (far left) and tom911 (far right), together with the poor working slobs, Jerrie, Punki and Hunki (from left to right in the middle), during a fun jaunt around Manhattan last year--lots of walking and lots of interesting experiences.

Hopefully, in four years, eleven months and three days, we will be able to join you in this most enviable state of "doing what you darn well please". I must admit, however, that our employees say that they can't even imagine us retiring completly, and they might be right. Maybe we will become part-time bosses who show up now and again and still get health insurance.

By the grace of God, we found FlyerTalk early on, which will have provided us (by the time we retire) 12 years worth of hard core earning of miles and points, which should last us the rest of our lives--even if we can avoid the Big "C" and/or catastrophic accident--which are predicted at 104 for me and 94 for Hunki. I wonder, with whom will I dance with during those last 12 years? I have to dance.