Well as a recently divorced man (amicable, it was just time), I have a whole new life to craft, so I’m going to exercise more (for real), read more and use my damn brain more. To that end, I have year long all in subscriptions to Truefire (a guitar learning site) and to the Great Courses Plus and using that I swear I’m going to learn either Latin or Ancient Greek for no goddam reason other than I love languages.
This will be the first time in my 58 years I’ve lived alone or even had my own room so the world is my oyster. I plan on visiting my brother in California (who I haven’t seen for several decades) in February.
One kind of weird thing I do want to do is go on a solo cruise so I’ll do that at some point as well.
I resolve to keep attempting to knock projects off my project list. It never seems to get shorter though, while you’re getting 2 done you’re also writing down 3 more.
And to travel more (and more for distance), again. I’m running out of Texas and the surrounding states that I haven’t already seen.
I was halfway there on this one when that stupid hurricane hit. And when my neighbor’s garage got destroyed, and she had to have it rebuilt, they left a shit-ton of construction lumber in her driveway. I’m talking like numerous 2x12x16, a bunch of full-length 2x8s and a whole stack of framing 2x4s. So now I have it all in my garage.
Probably. But yeah, I will find a use for it. That’s was the point of dragging it all back into my garage. I’m guessing it’s probably $400-500 worth of lumber.
I told my brother that there is a fine line between collector and hoarder. He then showed me a spreadsheet documenting every item in his collection. I changed my statement to say that there also a fine line between archivist and hoarder.
Now that would make a fine fishing trip. The dilemma is picking where to go. The Madison River would be hard to beat; its headwaters are in Yellowstone in Wyoming, then it crosses into Montana a few miles later.
The dumb phone was great but it didn’t last Helene.
I probably did end up eating a little healthier this year and drinking less beer (a relative measure). I weighed in at one point at 207. At 6-2 that’s still a tad overweight but it was the lowest I’ve been in a long time. I’m hovering around 211 right now.
I think I would have been fine had I not had two coffee shops to try and save/run. But that’s just because I was using my wife’s phone a lot. The dumb phone was completely overwhelmed by the crisis. It was essentially useless.