It could be a sign of age, but I enjoy thinking back occasionally and consider where I was and what I have done and learned through the years. It’s a wonderful gift we have of somehow storing a lifetime of experience within our minds. The easiest way to get it out and share is what I am doing right now. Early man (I despise the term “primitive”) was also aware of this. (I use the...
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My Big Boom Theory
I have turned perhaps too many of my blogging topics inward since I hit my retirement magic number here in the USA a few months ago. That’s because there are very important decision as I mildly struggle with re-defining my continuing life’s work and how it could change and be different. Retirement is not a stop sign at the top of the career hill, but a choice to keep going on a new and perhaps...
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I think it went little noticed by most citizens. The U.S. Postal rates went up on January 27 by an average of 3% or so and a new class of parcel post was created. I guess it wasn’t big enough news to make major news channels. I am not at all upset about the increase. It is a fact of life that all government cost continue to rise. What bugs me the most is the...
Continue reading...Behind Schedule
Because of my real work, I always feel I am behind schedule on my work shop projects. Nothing in the work shop (to do) is on a critical path. So my anxiety is self inflicted and totally controlled, but I still feel it. My plans have always been to build a workshop that I can enjoy while I am in retirement. Retirement is a time when I assumed it would be harder to make large...
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