Andrew and Colleagues,
I am looking forward to retirement. I am still working too many hours (60-70/week, and at work now!) but improved on the 80-90/wk I was doing up to March this year. Might get worse again next year if my sleep lab reopens (my weekend job). Not too concerned because I have set a firm retirement date for 31.7.2024. It is the day before I turn 70, and I made a promise to myself that I would not work into my 70's. Always have been a last minute to meet the deadline type of person So, I am already saying good-bye to some long-term patients and priming those with annual review that I will see them one last time next year.
I have so many things I want to get done and work just gets in the way. On a positive note, I achieved a long time ambition this week to charge my electric car (almost 8 years old now), with my own solar power. I am very happy with my solar panels and my battery. They are on a new large shed I built with my son, and which I have named Pad 42, after the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Not only is 42 the answer to "the ultimate question about Life, the Universe and Everything", but it is also the number of panels on my roof (a coincidence rather than by design, and in keeping with the many coincidences which appear in the Guide). I also plan to add another battery soon. My battery actually has 4 components stacked together to give about 14 kW of storage. When I add another battery beside the existing one, I will have 4x2 units (so another 42 appears!). I am OK if you share this good news with our fellow graduates.
Regards
Jim
