Not new to forum, but it has been a while.
It seems my last post was in 2016, that was around the time I retired and moved to very Northern Cali. I settled down in a small town just south of Oregon, right on the coast. Bought a lot and had a house built. (by the way my mortgage is half of what I paid for rent in southern California, near Disneyland)
I had to stop any scrapping because the closest scrap metal yard is a 2.5 hour drive into Oregon and no way was I going to save ferris pieces and take them there. I would lose money every trip. But just a couple months ago I realized there are steel drop off dumpsters a three minute drive from my house. It is a private company and he does not pay for steel. I don't care because computer parts, aluminum, brass, copper and wire is what I like to do. The owner and I have an agreement I will get all CRT and flat screens that he gets and I will drop off all ferris.
Even though I am retired I will not sit in a rocking chair watching opra all day. I work part time at my local elementary school. For two years I taught computers to 1st graders and I worked with the slower kids in the back of the classroom, then the virus hit. I have not been on campus in a year but worked four days a week with 2nd graders via zoom. But that was only two hours a day. If things work out I will be going back in the fall. I will be working with a brand new teacher in third grade. I have known her for a couple of years because her youngest girl was in my class and she was a good parent coming in all the time and helping. Didn't know she was also getting her teacher credentials.
I also work (volunteer) as a tour guide at out famous haunted lighthouse. I am starting to do a few things at my sheriff's station. We are forming a missing person's "task force" but it is taking a while to get going. Can't get office space in the main sheriff's station and then we need computers and phones installed. I think some politics are involved that is slowing us down.
