I'd been looking at retiring next April, but that seems like it may be pushed up a bit.
One of the things I've been looking at is a certain post retirement job with the feds, but haven't done anything official as of yet. Low and behold, yesterday morning I get a call out of the blue from that very job telling me they'd heard I might be retiring and an opening's coming up and am I interested? Well, that was unexpected and highly fortuitous so how could I say no? I shot off an application and a resume and have an interview tomorrow. It appears the job is mine as long as I don't screw it up, so I may be going in December rather than April.
Sometimes Christmas does come early.