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The Retirement Newsletter: The Birthday Issue with Calvin and Hobbes and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Welcome
Welcome to issue -54 — an issue ‘celebrating’ my birthday.
It doesn’t seem possible that another year has slipped by, but it has.
My birthday
As I said last year in issue -101 — Another birthday — it makes you think!:
“Birthdays are funny things. Why do we celebrate them?”
For me, birthdays are a time for reflection, and this year I have been thinking about what I have got and what I was expecting by the time I reached the ripe old age I am.
I am a fan of Calvin and Hobbes, and I can’t believe it is over 25 years since the comic strip ended after its short 10-year run. And, over the Christmas break, I saw a Calvin and Hobbes tweet that made me think, and it was something I touched upon a couple of weeks ago in Issue -56 — Wishing everyone a great 2023. Where is the future we were expecting?
“Where are the flying cars? Where are the moon colonies? Where are the personal robots and the zero-gravity boots, huh? Where are the rocket packs? Where are the…
