Best wishes.
Your participation has been much appreciated, Dinsdale. All the best to you as you move on.
May I say also, fine example of an exit statement!
Goodby, good luck and enjoy retirement.
Woah–my grumbling about Dinsdale was 150 posts back. This thread moves fast!
I hope your retirement goes well.
While there were one or two issues on which we disagreed, you were generally a thoughtful poster and will be missed. That was a gracious goodbye and I wish you the best in your retirement.
I can relate. I’ve been slowly fading here as well, but I also understand the just walk away approach.
I’ve enjoyed your posts and perspectives. If you decide to stay, that’s great but if you elect to leave, you will be missed.
This is me, as well. I’ve never read it or had any desire to. I occasionally work with small weights (should do it more often), but talking about it is sooooo boring. I got the impression as @hajario mentioned that it was a “do you even lift, bro?” type thread and noped away from it.
I may still wave to you at the Farmer’s Market!
Best of luck.
Maybe come back once just to let us know what happens with the Brio trains?
Best wishes from me, too, and enjoy a pleasant retirement.
Oh. Thank you for the notice. When people just disappear sometimes I worry …
Farewell
That’s the spoon theory of energy management. If you are young and/or healthy you have plenty of energy – plenty of spoons – to spend on your daily activities without much thought.
If you are old and/or infirm the number of spoons you have is limited and you have to make decisions on how to best spend them. If you spend them on a doctor’s appointment and grocery shopping you might not have any left to clean the house or tend the garden.
Catchy is fine, I agree. It’s the misleading ones that are annoying. Like, “Today I found out I’m probably dying” and then the OP describes finding such a good deal on hair dye at the local drugstore that they’re going to buy a case and start using it.
This is very true. After I’m done grocery shopping and have hauled everything into the house, I have to sit for a few minutes swigging a bottle of water before I can summon the energy to even put stuff away.
The usual wisdom in these circumstances is try just a little bit of exercise, because a little is better than none. I do just that, thank you, every time I go up and down the stairs! 
If you are infirm. Old is not necessarily infirm.
Yes someone with very limited energy should pace themselves and dole out their supply wisely. That’s the current guidance for ME/CFS (myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome) btw. Do but don’t overdo.
And it is completely possible to be old and not infirm. I won’t share how. Don’t want be seen as bullying after all!
Oh. If anyone is interested I brought up the subject of the different impacts of occupational physical activity and recreational in that thread. No need to hijack more here.
True. I tried to cover that with ‘young and or healthy.’
Let’s face it though. As you age your energy level goes down. You might have started with enough reserves there’s not much effect – still have plenty of spoons – but it is there nonetheless.
When I was ten my forty-year old father had a habit of taking a 90 minute nap on Saturday and I didn’t understand why in the world he did that. Then I became forty…
If they spelled it properly, and titled it “Today I found out I’m probably dyeing”, I’d actually give them props. Because they are warning people about what it is really about. If they instead said “dying” then that’s not just misleading, it’s a lie.
Yes, props for sure. And I’d read that thread.
Fairwell @Dinsdale. I trust you will greatly enjoy yor impending retirement from work. And all the changes that will bring to your daily life.
I too struggle with cutting back on anything and find cold turkey the best way to realign my habits, good or bad.
I have quit this place cold turkey twice. Not specifically intending either time to be a temporary sabbatical, nor a permanent walk-away. I just quit until it felt like time to return. Which may happen sooner, later, or not at all. Turns out to be 2 and 4 years for me as best I recall.
You may find the same occurs for you at some point some time from now. If so, don’t let your farewell message here now be an obstacle to that return. Nobody who matters is going to neener about it then.
FWIW, your absence was much noticed by me, and I sure hope you stick around as, IMHO, one of our most valued posters.