I am not surprised at Michael Phelps changing his mind, Olympic athletes get so focussed on that one big event that it is hard to think beyond it right away. I don't mind athletes "unretiring" if it is done without much fuss and fury. After all, my own non-athlete Great Uncle Mac retired 5 times! He'd retire, stay home for a couple days, drive Aunt Adrienne nuts and then get another job!

My favorite of his "retired" jobs was when he was fixing trucks and equipment at a local dairy that had an ice cream stand. He'd get given the over-ripe bananas bought for making banana sundaes - and they'd become banana bread to share. And he'd bring over almost-empty (as in still a half dozen scoops left - containers of ice cream, too!

And I think before that was when he was driving and fixing school buses - that was good, too, because a couple times a year we'd get given all the pens and crayons and stuff kid left on the buses and never reclaimed!

So, we were a little spoiled - they never had kids, but we were his favorite nephew's kids, so we got the goodies!