I finally own my calendar.

I’m Rick Wood. I spent more than forty years working, solving problems, sitting in meetings, building things, fixing things, and knowing exactly where I was supposed to be on Monday morning.

Then I retired.

Retired to Death is about what happened next: travel, golf, astronomy, technology, road trips, new hobbies, unnecessary equipment, good friends, bad ideas, and learning how to have a day without turning it into a performance review.

Bruce is usually there. He has opinions.

This is not a retirement-planning site and I am not a retirement guru. I’m documenting what it looks like to get your time back and actually use it — including the parts that work, the things I get wrong, and the stuff I probably should not have bought.

If you came here from the astronomy side of my life, StarPixels is still where the universe lives. Retired to Death is everything else.