Charles Schultz died the day after retiring from doing Peanuts.  While I loved my grandfather, I didn't really respect how he spent his retirement, long naps, inactive, lots of TV ... I'm Gen X, they'll keep raising retirement age as I slowly get closer for eligibility.

What I'm discovering in my 40s, is that the more active blue collar type work I do outside of white collar type sedentary work I normally do, the healthier I feel and the better my surroundings become (building fences, patios, painting houses inside and out, xeriscape landscaping).

I've accepted that if I want to live a long fulfilling productive healthy life, it is really up to myself to just do it.  So I'll keep working 'til I die out of choice and reality.  Some of my work will live on well beyond my years, and will make the Denver area a more beautiful and satisfying place to be.  I can live and die with the satisfaction of this knowledge.