First, it’s been a good six weeks since anyone’s posted a comment on the blog. There’s been a steady stream of visitors, but no comments, FWIW. Second, I am very much enjoying having control of the daily/weekly schedule. Not trying to rush into any particular routine yet. Doing a lot of reading, working out, going Continue reading
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#36 – Anybody Up for a Trip?
So I’m looking out my home office window at five inches of snow we got last night, even though yesterday afternoon temperatures were in the 60s and it was nice enough to play golf. The snow, with a cloudless blue sky background, is beautiful, but it’s time we move onto some good Spring weather. I Continue reading
#35 – Looking Back on the Retirement Decision
The post from a little than a year ago solicited comments on what might have led folks into deciding when to retire, and I threw out a few possible thresholds. That list is revisited below. Since I changed my decision after the time of the post, thought it might be worth offering my answers to Continue reading
#34 – Reposting an Article Worth Reading
Almost exactly a year ago my USNA classmate Brian sent me a link to an article on some characteristics related to aging brains. It’s content is worthy of being the subject of my first repost, so the link is provided below: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/help-for-aging-brains/2021/03/05/717ab738-79d6-11eb-85cd-9b7fa90c8873_story.html The article uses plenty of common sense as reference for its content, but Continue reading
#33 – The “Dark Ages”
Eleven days since the last post. I can do better than that in retirement…. It’s been six weeks since we got down here in TN, and even though we live in a neighborhood, the winter nights are really dark. This community embraces a posture of minimal streetlights due to the local wildlife. So short, cold Continue reading
#32 – One Month Into Retirement
One month ago yesterday we were spending our first full day in our new retirement home. It was also the one year anniversary for starting this blog, which I now have more time to work on. The first month of retirement was a bit rough early on. We had everything planned out, but just didn’t Continue reading
#31 – Retired, Moved and Reconnected
Here it is almost the end of January and we are finally relocated and reconnected. Last time I had connectivity was as I finished post number 30, and this will be a very short note. Retired as of January 1, and we were supposed to conduct the move to TN Jan 3-5, but two east Continue reading
#30 – 1st Year Summary
At the beginning of 2021, I decided to try my hand at writing a blog, and with retirement a couple years away, thought it might be good to make the blog about retirement preparation- encourage conversations between those who’ve already retired and those of us about to. I also wanted to learn more about the Continue reading
#29 – An End to 2021
It’s New Year’s Eve, less than three hours before the end of 2021 as I type this (was all excited about watching Michigan in the late NCAA football playoff game tonight, but that has turned into a bust, sorry Andrew). I was going to summarize the first year in this post, but that will wait Continue reading
#28 – Post Thanksgiving or Pre Christmas
This post started out as just a Thanksgiving note, but my self-inflicted delays have taken me into mid-December with way too much having happened since post #27. So this first paragraph summarizes that Thanksgiving week- a great week with light work load, a visit from our son, a quick visit to see our granddaughter, a Continue reading