Terry Boers

The decision was actually made before my illness, which has certainly hastened in some ways the decision.

It's made it a very, very difficult year for me.

And any time I have to be away from as much work as I've had to do this year, it makes me sad.

It makes me feel bad.

It has done so since mid-June.

And I still feel the same way today.

And a lot of it swirls around work.

And you're probably saying, what's wrong with you?

Well, I don't know.

But anyway, I want to emphasize that the way this year has gone for me, which is horribly, has nothing to do with this decision, which is a decision to retire, which will happen at the end of this year.

My last show will be January 5th.

So I do this wanting you to understand.

It's been a...

Very difficult year, and it wasn't a difficult decision to make, but I want you to understand that I'm not being driven from the business.

I'm not being as disappointing as all this has been to me because I'm a guy who's worked for 50 years, and I would have happily worked the last six months of this as well every damn day.

It hasn't turned out that way, and I don't know that it ever will again.

I mean, I couldn't, even if I wanted to say to myself, well, hold off a while.

No, I can't because I don't know what the future holds.

I really don't.

And I know that if I retire, which I was going to do, I wanted to make it 25 years.