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Retirement is hard work

Posted by on November 26, 2011

Jett and I both had Thursday and Friday off this week, giving us a 4-day weekend to enjoy family and food and have a lot of fun.

Yeah.

Our weekend has actually consisted of Thanksgiving dinner alone, followed by moving furniture, painting and listing on eBay some of the stuff we want to shed before retirement. ‘Fun’ would be a stretch.

Of course it is all in the name of getting ready for retirement and if the next 10 months are as “enjoyable” as this weekend has been, I will be exhausted by the time I get there.

My eBay tally so far: 58 items listed, 1 bid.  I don’t think there is a lot of demand for 5-year-old technical books (I was tempted to list them under “Antiques”), but I hoped to have better luck with fiction and vintage software (I have a surprisingly large accumulation of Apple II software).

Bottom line: I am minus $19.28 so far, due mostly to me taking the opportunity to buy some Sue Grafton novels on eBay.  She is the one who writes those “‘A’ is for Alibi,” “‘B’ is for Burglar” mysteries.  I don’t know if this was part of her strategy, but the fact that I read ‘C’ and ‘E’ without doing ‘D’ bothered me way more than it should have.  So I will soon have the entire set through ‘N’. After going back and reading ‘D’ I can proceed with the rest without the trauma of further letter-skipping.

At least my OCD is surviving the weekend quite nicely.

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