After some discussion over the last couple of days, I have taken the first step toward really figuring whether I can do a retirement PhD with some old friends. More importantly, if I do not take these first few baby steps, I will never even figure out whether I actually want to do this. What did I do? I filled out an application form, sent in my $50 application fee, and reported in to my potential professors. In addition to that, I started writing the abstract for a refereed journal article that describes some of the work we did on the GaugeCam project that could be a foundation for future work. I still have a lot of trepidation about the idea and if it requires me to take too many classes or get to high a score on the GRE, it might make just make more sense to just do the fun part that I know how to do (vision research) and forget the rest. Who knows though? I might enjoy the process.