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I did it at 52, I was making a nice salary, I opened a company in a completely different field, but one I was very knowledgeable in. I didn't take a salary for a year, never made half as much as I did before, until I sold the company and made a killing.

But it wasn't about the money, I was doing work that went from boring and routine to dangerous and physically taxing. I was on call 24/7/365, I was just getting burned out. Owning my own business was the best decision I ever made, I enjoyed the work, I hired a great staff and we all liked working with each other, I was more of a team leader than a boss, I let them do their work without interference, we're all still friends years later.

Important: Are you are financially ready, my kids were out of college, my house and cars were paid for, my wife was still working, so I was very risk tolerant. The best advice I got came from my financial advisor, he told me that guys my age are smart, we don't go buy some expensive toy at the first great month, we are cash conscious, he said he sees very few failures.

I planned and prepared for about a year, got rid of debt, took classes, went to SCORE and got advisors, designed logo, found a great location for retail in an area where my potential customers lived and worked, I decided, with the help of a PR company, what kind of marketing I was going to use.

The more thought and planning you put in, the luckier you will be. Good luck, go for it.

Type 2 here, so real syrup is a rare treat, but Steen's was always my favorite. We have a friend with a maple syrup company in Vermont, we get a quart of dark amber as a gift occasionally, that is the only syrup I've ever had that is intense as Steen's, different flavor, but intense.

The reason I quit going to Chimes East. Not enough people who tip.

I worked in a cubicle for a short time, I have a booming voice, great for presentations or any public speaking, lousy for people in the cubicles around me. They banished me to a private office, awwwww.

I have little compassion for OM, but I agree, this bodes ill for as all. None of these hired guns have one shred of loyalty to your school, that died with guys like McClendon, Darryl Royal, Bud Wilkinson and the like. I remember at 10 y/o how I felt when Paul Deitzel left for Army, I was young enough to think that he owed something to the people who gave him a job.

I wish we could limit the poaching to hiring asst. coaches away. To me, a gifted AD is the one who can spot a great head coach in the making on the staff at another school, instead of spending several fortunes to hire the "flavor of the month".

No one heard of Nick Saban until Mark Emmert found him at Mich State, but he saw the potential, no, he wasn't an asst coach, but he might as well have been one.

We'll see how this all plays out, maybe Kiffin will be at LSU for 20 years and win several championships, but he seems more like a guy who will chase the next shiny thing someone waves in front of him, likely the NFL.

Is it more fun to watch people at Home Depot trying to fit shite into their car, or sitting at a boat launch all day? Boat launches are the funniest places on Earth.

I'm not a cranberry fan, the sweet and savory just doesn't ring my chimes. My wife makes a fresh cranberry, frozen dark cherries, orange zest and pieces, then brandy. To me it's better on vanilla ice cream than turkey.

We had a deckhand on one of the boats, I didn't hire him and wouldn't have hired him. It was difficult to find other deckhands to ride with him for 2 weeks, it got to be such a problem I told HR to get rid of him. The guy in HR was actually afraid the guy was going to kill him if he fired him, so I said I'd handle it. Next crew change day, when he was leaving, I told him the problem and that, he knew he could get a job at another company, so it was no big deal.

Less than two weeks later, his name was in the paper, he was arrested for a DUI and it turned out there were two murder warrants out for him in Colorado.

I suggest you don't watch Saturday, it will ruin the season for you. I have a bad feeling.