"The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished" - Benjamin Franklin

Dougwe · Chief one feather

Dougwe - a "free" man today!!

bronnie · Senior Member

Congratulations Dougwe!! Enjoy yourself... smile smile smile smile smile

Cheers Bronnie

-- Edited by bronnie on Saturday 22nd of September 2012 12:38:52 AM

jules47 · The Happy Helper

Congratulations Dougwe - enjoy your retirement - settle into the life - you will enjoy it smile smile smile smile smile

Gerty Dancer · Guru

Yay!! biggrin Go Dougie! smile smile smile

barina · Guru

Congratulations, I am jealous, but happy for you. Enjoy your new life.

Happywanderer · The Master

Good luck with your new life out there Doug. Plenty to do and see, you won't have time to miss work.

milo · Guru

Dougwe wrote:
Geee, I have gone all red.

Thanks heaps for that Jules and GD. It shore has been a mixed bag of emotions today and I tell you that for free.
I have had 3 cars cut me of this afternoon while in the bus but no dramas. I put the bus to bed at 6.45pm for the last time.
I didn't escape problems though, I thought I would be clever and put some music on my iPhone through ITunes and something went wrong, the phone has locked up so now I have to sort that out . I have no phone now until it is all sorted.

Congrats Dougwe

as for the iphone ,try connecting to your pc etc and if it connects look for restore iphone some where in itunes

good luck ..

Dougwe · Chief one feather

milo wrote:
Dougwe wrote:
Geee, I have gone all red.

Thanks heaps for that Jules and GD. It sure has been a mixed bag of emotions today and I tell you that for free.
I have had 3 cars cut me off this afternoon while in the bus but no dramas. I put the bus to bed at 6.45pm for the last time.
I didn't escape problems though, I thought I would be clever and put some music on my iPhone through ITunes and something went wrong, the phone has locked up so now I have to sort that out . I have no phone now until it is all sorted.
Congrats Dougwe
as for the iphone ,try connecting to your pc etc and if it connects look for restore iphone some where in itunes

good luck ..

Thanks Milo but I have tried that a few times and the phone keeps locking up. I will take the phone to the local Telstra Dealer this morning, I took it in yesterday and he showed me how to reset the phone and said the same as you.

Dougwe · Chief one feather

Bummer, I am up the same time as usual. cry cry cry

Thanks for all the kind words, I hope to meet all of you at some stage.

Old Crofter · Senior Member

Congratulations on your retirment, there will be plenty of things you will like to do, normally for others. Make sure you get lots of Doug time.

jules47 · The Happy Helper

Dougwe wrote:
Bummer, I am up the same time as usual.

Thanks for all the kind words, I hope to meet all of you at some stage.

Doesn't usually take long to get in the habit of turning over in bed for a while - which gradually becomes longer and longer.

Took me about three weeks I reckon, once I took up residence in the motorhome - now could sleep for Australia, I reckon.!!!

_wombat_ · Master (of Mischief)

it's happened at last Dougwe retired, congratulations once again mate, now in regards to your phone, you do not need one now throw it in the rubbish bin biggrin biggrin

Beth54 · Guru

Congratulations Doug! smile

milo · Guru

Dougwe wrote:
milo wrote:
Dougwe wrote:
Geee, I have gone all red.

Thanks heaps for that Jules and GD. It sure has been a mixed bag of emotions today and I tell you that for free.
I have had 3 cars cut me off this afternoon while in the bus but no dramas. I put the bus to bed at 6.45pm for the last time.
I didn't escape problems though, I thought I would be clever and put some music on my iPhone through ITunes and something went wrong, the phone has locked up so now I have to sort that out . I have no phone now until it is all sorted.
Congrats Dougwe
as for the iphone ,try connecting to your pc etc and if it connects look for restore iphone some where in itunes

good luck ..

Thanks Milo but I have tried that a few times and the phone keeps locking up. I will take the phone to the local Telstra Dealer this morning, I took it in yesterday and he showed me how to reset the phone and said the same as you.

if you have all the reciepts take the phone back to apple direct to the store, sometimes they might just give you a new iphone!!

neilnruth · Guru

Congratulations from us too Doug. You'll enjoy it.

Bent Axle Bob · Senior Member

Congratulations!!!! Don't forget to NOT set the alarm clock tonight

Dougwe · Chief one feather

Hi all, awoke at same time as normal again. furious

I took the iPhone back to the place I got it and the young bloke there hooked it up to his little poota and set things in motion, 30 mins later it's working again. Turns out all software was taken off and didn't want to go back on when updated. His poota sorted it out for me. Nice poota. I lost all data including all contacts. I am not worried about photo's etc but now I have to input all contacts in again one at a time. confuse

Guess what I'm doing this afternoon????? furious

I must say though, although I really don't like this particular Telstra Shop, only cos it's sooooo busy the young bloke that was dealing with me was very very helpfull to me and a few others he was dealing with while my phone was being sorted.

_wombat_ · Master (of Mischief)

I still wake at 0400 every morning, you will get used to it.

Good to hear you got your phone fixed, here's my mob no 042474 13475904 3494244989232742834856 8735412406788392716 biggrin

ALL telstra shop are busy, the one at our local shopping centre has a q outside from 0830 and they do not open until 0900

Just relax and get those numbers in your phone, that will keep you busy for this arvo. biggrin

Dougwe · Chief one feather

Few!!!! Just got a pleasant surprise. I thought I would connect my phone to the poota again to see if my contacts were stored there and BINGO there they were. The phone connected to iTunes automatically and just reloaded all my contacts onto the phone. I'm just testing the phone as a modem as I talk to ya now, it works. Don't ya just love technology. smile smile

Now, to get down to this retirement thing. smile smile

landy · Guru

Congratulations Dougwe

You are soon going to wonder how you ever had time to go to work.

Landy

nomadic1 · Senior Member

Yyyaaayyyy!!!! Way to go Dougwe. Now you have all the time in the world to explore the playground. I still wake up between 6 and 6.30 despite having tried really hard to learn to turn over and go back to sleep. I'm now resigned to it and, instead of staggering out of bed to shower and get ready for work, I just stagger out of bed to make a cuppa that I then take back to bed where I read as I sip away happily and think about how I don't have to go to work any more.

Esmeralda · Guru

Congratulations Doug - enjoy yourself every day without the dread of having to go to work!!!!!!!

Cheers, Helen

Dougwe · Chief one feather

As soon as I had the mobile phone back in action I felt a great release of stress. Isn't it funny, I have had a mobile phone since day dot when it was a big brick so that's however long?? I don't know how I would cope without it actually, anyway it is some sort of help when out in the playground if you get into trouble, providing you have coverage of course and that's a whole different subject that I won't get started on.

Just sitting here having a nice green tea and feel "RELAXED".

ken thomas · Guru

Enjoy the travels Doug
Catch you along the way
Ken

_wombat_ · Master (of Mischief)

Dougwe wrote:
As soon as I had the mobile phone back in action I felt a great release of stress. Isn't it funny, I have had a mobile phone since day dot when it was a big brick so that's however long?? I don't know how I would cope without it actually, anyway it is some sort of help when out in the playground if you get into trouble, providing you have coverage of course and that's a whole different subject that I won't get started on.
Just sitting here having a nice green tea and feel "RELAXED".

that's the way to do it Dougwe, just relax and enjoy, you have earned it mate

Esmeralda · Guru

Doug, I understand the phone thing. I am not a huge mobile phone user but I left it at my parents place on Father's Day and had to wait for two days for it to arrive in the mail (registered) - dad sent it Monday and it arrived on Wednesday. What a relief but I don't know why I was so stressed about it confuse

gillyb · Senior Member

Congratulations on your retirement Doug, hope you eventually learn to sleep in a little. I never have, always awake by 6 -6.30 every morning rain hail or shine lol. I guess there's plenty of time for sleeping after you've gone!! I think the best part is that you don't have to hurry anything, just relax and do whatever you feel like doing and enjoy everyday as it comes biggrin

Enjoy

vk6tnc · Guru

Mobile phones hit Perth in 1982. It was the size of a small suitcase with handset cradle mounted on the side (complete with curly cord)

Numbers started with 007 to make everyone feel like they were James Bond ???

animalcarer · Senior Member

Awwwww congrats from howard and me. May your chimney always smoke. xxx