The motion carries.
Retirement as an attempt to gain more free time just doesn't work.
You people obviously don't know Richard. He will hrumph and blunderbuss his way
through local space-time until reality bends to his requirements.
Also, the word "free" is never a descriptor of "time" in his
universe.
I keenly look forward to the sheer anarchy he will inflict on the countryside now that he
is no longer constrained by a (very) petty bureaucracy :-)
--lyndon (who had the joy of working with Mr. Grumpy Bastard for a few years, long ago
and far far away)
P.S. He's also the only person on the planet I would (and did) entrust my Drake Twins
with (speaking of Classic Hardware!).
P.P.S. Maybe now he'll have time to fire them up and get on the air again ;-)