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Dogon: All good and practical considerations, thankyou! You've hit just about every point that I've been pondering. And you're sadly right: politics won't matter much after this next election. It will define so-much of our lives going forward.

My wife is actually driving this to a large degree (& much to my surprise). Part of that is her trying to understand how life will look in retirement (she's 7-years younger & pretty "type A" but... she's burning-out badly these days) and I'm discovering that, gasp(!)...women & aging are very different than men & aging (perhaps we have less to lose?). She has complained for years that I was "stuck in the past" (& that's simply because I had it so damn-good then) so perhaps this is her way of getting me to look forward a little? I now have friends and family in Florida and frankly...I'm sensing the wisdom of wintering in warmer climes, but she recoils at that thought. To her, Florida is (evidently) an endless strip-mall hell, full of brainless idiots and doddering old fools. She is a northern girl and she claims to love all the seasons (well, she'll be shoveling the driveway mostly by herself this winter, so we'll see how that goes).

Whatever we do, it will be after much prudent consideration. Colorado has become home to her in so-many ways (we've been in this house since 1991). Uprooting here will be near impossible at this point, but I'm playing along and we'll see how it all develops. She is arguably responsible for all the good things in my life (the best $5 I ever spent was for a marriage licence). She kept me alive through my 15-year Lyme's adventure and she's given me a fine son. Her happiness IS paramount to me (and also because I'm not entirely stupid).

Nirvana is in so-may places...







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