I feel like a lost soul sometimes.

a great man once said

regrets, i've had a few, but then again too few to mention

i've always figured that life was too short to worry about much of anything

this will probably catch up with me in the end, but i'll burn that bridge before i get to it, or something like that

I think the thing that weighs heaviest on my mind right now is he fact that I have no retirement money to speak of. That scares me.

that's what the lottery is for

Don't worry, 'k! They're gonna fix social security.


(Wait... do you pay into SS?)

I don't either. You're right to be worried.

Sometimes, if I have an itch, I just scratch it.

I have had very little money paid into SS. I don't think I ever wanted to count on SS - the baby boomers were going to make SS go bust, that's what I always heard. Anyway, I will be getting a small chunk of money that my parents had set aside for each of their kids. I'll invest that, but how? Wait..... I'll start a new topic.

anxiety with a concrete focus is not as good fodder for jokes as ennui, i'm afraid...

Aw, come on, pdog, I bet you can come up with something!

for some reason, my mind is filled only with unprintable filth at present, and none of it at all pertinent to retirement except in the most oblique ways...

Don't worry, littlek, I'll take care of you. That's what sugar daddies are for.

Oooh, that's even better!

Um, thanks Gus, I think....

Pdog - go ahead, let it all out.

So, the Chili Peppers and Greenday have songs about this ennui, no?

my situation is best described by tom waits

I DON'T WANT TO GROW UP

When I'm lyin' in my bed at night I don't wanna grow up
Nothing ever seems to turn out right I don't wanna grow up

How do you move in a world of fog that's always
Changing things Makes wish that I could be a dog

When I see the price that you pay I don't wanna grow up
I don't ever want to be that way I don't wanna grow up

Seems that folks turn into things that they
Never want The only thing to live for is today...

I'm gonna put a hole in my T.V. set I don't wanna grow up
Open up the medicine chest I don't wanna grow up

I don't wanna have to shout it out I don't want my hair to fall out
I don't wanna be filled with doubtI don't wanna be a good boy scout
I don't wanna have to learn to count I don't wanna have the biggest amount
I don't wanna grow up

Well when I see my parents fight I don't wanna grow up
They all go out and drinkin' all night I don't wanna grow up

I'd rather stay here in my room Nothin' out there but sad and gloom
I don't wanna live in a big old tomb on grand street
When I see the 5 o'clock news I don't wanna grow up
Comb their hair and shine their shoes I don't wanna grow up

Stay around in my old hometown I don't wanna put no money down
I don't wanna get a big old loan Work them fingers to the bone
I don't wanna float on a broom Fall in love, get married then boom
How the hell did it get here so soon I don't wanna grow up

I actually don't mind growing up - my 30s have been much more comfortable for me than any previous age.

I always said I would never grow up, and believe me, I have stuck with that religiously. Lately, I'm questioning the wisdom of that.

the worst part for me is, i still feel like i did when i was in high school, i still get excited by new music, the latest video game, i have less and less in common with my adult contemperaries, i don't want a mortgage, wife, kids, rrsp, car, cottage, boat none of that crap

i want a psp, a great collection of japanese horror flicks, more comic books

(please don't get me wrong i'm no comic book guy from the simpsons)

hehehe, djjd, you're worse than me. I hope you aren't like my buddy in Rochester. He still lives with his parents at the age of 38 and has keg parties all the time where he and the rest of his buddies (also living perpetually in the year 1987) sit around and get bombed while listening to old Def Leppard records. It's hilarious to go home and see these guys.

kicky - do they have mullets?