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10-15-2025, 01:36 PM,
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Best wishes and congratulations to Rob Wick! Rob is retiring on October 31.
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10-15-2025, 04:01 PM,
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Congratulations, Rob. Kick back and enjoy it!
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10-15-2025, 05:18 PM,
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Great news Rob! You've earned it! More time for reading, rearranging your books and baking chocolate chip cookies.
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10-16-2025, 07:27 AM,
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Congratulations.
Looking forward to exploring the Lincoln Boyhood Home and area with you again.
Plus pizza.
So when is this "Old Enough To Know Better" supposed to kick in?
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10-16-2025, 08:19 AM,
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Appreciate the kind words! It's going to be strange since I have worked since I was 14. I hope to use the time writing, although Patsy may have other ideas.

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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.
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10-16-2025, 05:53 PM,
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Congratulations Rob!
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10-16-2025, 10:36 PM,
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(10-16-2025, 08:19 AM)Rob Wick Wrote: Appreciate the kind words! It's going to be strange since I have worked since I was 14. I hope to use the time writing, although Patsy may have other ideas.

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Rob

Congrats Rob, any particular writing projects in mind?
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10-17-2025, 09:22 AM,
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Just hoping to get back to my biography of Ida Tarbell.

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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
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10-19-2025, 06:33 PM,
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All the best, Rob, and good success for your book project!
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10-20-2025, 05:45 AM,
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I too wish you success and good fortune in your efforts, Rob, on your biography of Ida Tarbell.
"So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history." -- Plutarch
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10-20-2025, 06:55 PM,
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I add my best wishes, Rob.
I know we're all different but I'd like to tell you about my experiences on retirement ...
Well, it wasnt really anything like I expected but I'm enjoying it.
At the end of every day it seems like I didnt get to do all that I'd planned ... but, yeah, who cares. I'm not too bothered.

I do though worry about the amount of time I spend sitting at this laptop. Using a timer is a great idea, if I could adhere to it. When I first retired I had an excrutiating attack of sciatica ... due to my hours long sitting posture, I'm sure. Now we walk and swim regularly.

Good luck with the book ... I suggest you tell as many people as possible that you're writing one. That forces you to keep at it. I finished mine ... the actual book didnt take too long to complete. The Endnotes though took ages. ( It has nothing to do with Lincoln. Self published ... interesting experience ... sold one copy. One of my daughters bought it because she felt sorry for me I think!)
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Is king o' men for a' that” Robert Burns
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10-20-2025, 10:40 PM,
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Congratulations, Rob! You'll discover a whole new world where you can pretty much do what you want to do each day. I think Patsy (your dog) has the right idea and takes you out for a daily walk.
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10-22-2025, 06:38 AM,
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Again, I want to thank everyone for their kind words regarding my future.

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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

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11-01-2025, 01:50 PM,
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Here is what was waiting for me yesterday.

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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.
--Carl Sandburg
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11-02-2025, 01:23 PM,
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Rob, perfect cake for the occasion. They know you well!!!
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