Keeping retirement weird.

They say it was a perfect storm.

A movement, the man and a plan.

That’s how we elected Harold Washington to be the first elected Black mayor of Chicago.

On Monday it will be 26 years since Harold died. It is over 30 years since we beat the Machine and elected him.

The thing I take away from those days is that perfect storms come without warning.

We will be spending Thanksgiving with some of the family in Brooklyn.

We’re driving. Retirement gives us the time to avoid the horrors of air travel on a week like the one coming up.

No O’Hare or Midway. No LaGuardia.

We can leave when we want. We are planning on Monday. But we are also keeping our eyes open for Winter storms.

We will make our usual stop in Cleveland.

No. We have never gone to the Rock and Roll Hall of fame.

If the have to spell out “a-n-d” it ain’t rock ‘n’ roll to me.

The Tuesday after Thanksgiving, after we drive back to Chicago, is Pension Emergency Day, called by the state’s public employee unions. We will target specific legislators and show up at their district offices.

Will the state’s legislative leaders really call the General Assembly back into session on Wednesday or later to give Archer Daniels Midland tax breaks and cut seniors’ cost of living increases?

That might just be enough to cause a perfect storm.