Suite Judy Blue-Eyes, what a deal!  That's why I want to stay in Public
Service as long as I can.  I've been working FT since I was 19-ish (paid my
way through school, uphill, both ways), so I've got a pretty good FICA sum,
but I'm wondering how my Public Employees Retirement is going to be impacted
by that.  If I can keep all the body parts moving in one direction, I'd like
to get twenty years total in the guv'ment (provided my ship and Pulitzer
Prize winning novel don't come in).  Like Ken, I worry about keepin' on
keepin' on, what with the pain, et. al.

My Dad, as you know, is a double-dipper.  He worked twenty years in the Ohio
School System (same retirement program I'm in) and bought a bunch of
military time too.  He made less at the end of his career than Mom, but his
retirement check is about a third greater.  His medical coverage is a pretty
groovy thang too!

Like I said before, I heartily recommend any pwd (No, Laura, no matter the
state of our checkbook, it doesn't stand for "poor white dad") consider
government or state academic service based on ADA compliance, flexible
sick-leave bennies, great medical insurance.  The list goes on.  At my
physiatrist's at Ohio State, they have an office-full of various gimpy-types
like ourselves.  The university really goes out of its way to accomodate.

So, you planning on staying at Graceland or are you looking to move closer
to the grandkids?

-Kyle


-----Original Message-----
From: Bobby Greer [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 11:30 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: CP PJ Man


>Bobby,
>
>You're tenured, aren't you?         ....<VBG>
>
>-Kyle
>
Since 1974.I'll be out of here soon. Benefits in Human Resources ran a
retire projection for me 2 weeks ago and with FICA and all the net
difference between
my base take home now and what I'd get with Tennessee Retirement and Social
Security is about $174.00 per month!!!


>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bobby Greer [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 11:21 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: CP PJ Man
>
>
>Chester,
>
>        I changed a few words from the original yesterday, but here it is
>in final form.
>
>
>
>                Wrestlin' CP Man
>
>        There's a  CP man who leads a life of danger
>        To everyone he wrestles he looks stranger
>        With every move he takes another muscle spasm he makes
>        Odds are he won't be alright tomorrow
>
>                Wreslin' CP Man
>        Wreslin' CP Man
>        They've given you a valium
>        And taken away your pain
>
>        Beware of pretty faces that look at you funny
>        A pretty face is usually after your money
>        Say whatever you want to you say
>        She won't understand you anyway
>        Odds are you won't to see her around tomorrow
>
>        Seizuring into the Turnbuckle one day
>        Laying in the ICU the next day
>        You tried doing the wrong flip
>        And dislocated your hip
>        Odds are you won't be wreslin' tomorrow
>
>
>Bobby G. Greer  2/27/00 for Chester Worwa