Thursday evening / Friday morning
I spent a full day at the office, and returned home to find T cooking dinner in the kitchen and making us a cocktail. Yay!!! It has been a long time since somebody cooked for me. And T is so good at it. The BA meals always taste extra yummy when he cooks them, I don't know how he does it, although my own cooking skills have improved tremendously over the past 20 years since I met him.
During dinner we continued discussing Dune 2, and now I really really want to reread the book all the way through, and then rewatch both parts of the new film, and then comment on why the book and the films speak to people like T and me who read the book (and its sequels) as children during the 1970s.
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As I write this it is Friday, March 15, 2024, and I have now reached my Minimum Retirement Age. I could retire today, if I wanted. Yesterday T insisted that I wait at least a year, however. He said, "I'm putting my foot down." LOL. "I'd be stuck with the mortgage," he said. He's a bit worried I'll just disappear, leaving him holding the bag. But I continue to say that I'll have to work things out with T regarding the house and K regarding the condo and that I won't simply pack up and move to Nepal next month.
I have to be 60 to qualify for a retirement visa to Nepal anyway? :-)
But yesterday morning as I was driving to the Metro station, I heard somebody on NPR talking about social networks and how important they are for so many reasons. They were commenting on the difficulty for families of moving to new cities to find work, how that cuts them off from their social networks. Lots of families move to new cities when they retire, however, and I've fantasized about doing this myself. But it would cut me off from my social network.
But what about when the people in my social network move to other cities? Like K and T! The core of my social network at one time, I used to live with them both, if only briefly both. T may well move back, but, still. Am I the only one not allowed to move?
But I remember moving to the DC area in 1992, now 32 years ago, and having no social network in the area. I had to build one. Slowly. I was greatly assisted by KWC moving in with me, after one year of a long-distance relationship. When KWC broke up with me some years later, I had to work extra hard at building up my own social network. It takes time. And back then I was a hot young thing LOL.
None of this is imminent, neither retirement, nor moving. But now, I can.
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I'm up in the middle of the night. Perhaps I'll fall back asleep. Whether I do or not, I'll be teleworking today, and at some point taking a break to run 3 or 4 miles. Or perhaps I'll run before my workday begins.
I'd love to quit early and perhaps head to the condo for a night to self. T has no plans for the weekend, yet. B is out of town, so he won't see T during this visit, so there's no need for me to vacate to give them2 space. I'll have a discussion with T later about my potentially spending either Friday or Saturday night at K's condo. But T leaves on Monday, so I definitely won't do a two-night stay. But I'd so love a night away.
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I'm so out of practice with reading books. A couple years ago I was making a point of it, my Books of the Moon series. But a couple years ago I was also making a point of inviting people over for monthly Game Days. Then my job became so much more stressful. So far, 2024 isn't as bad as 2023, but I'm definitely not back to 2022. I'm encouraged that things have improved compared to last year.
So can I make a point of reading books again? One per New Moon. I missed the starting point with March 10, but let's jump in a bit late anyway.
I'm going to reread Dune by the afternoon of April 8. 48 chapters, read a couple chapters per day to stay on track. You can do this, Bug!
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OK, today's minimum of two chapters have been read :-)
During dinner we continued discussing Dune 2, and now I really really want to reread the book all the way through, and then rewatch both parts of the new film, and then comment on why the book and the films speak to people like T and me who read the book (and its sequels) as children during the 1970s.
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As I write this it is Friday, March 15, 2024, and I have now reached my Minimum Retirement Age. I could retire today, if I wanted. Yesterday T insisted that I wait at least a year, however. He said, "I'm putting my foot down." LOL. "I'd be stuck with the mortgage," he said. He's a bit worried I'll just disappear, leaving him holding the bag. But I continue to say that I'll have to work things out with T regarding the house and K regarding the condo and that I won't simply pack up and move to Nepal next month.
I have to be 60 to qualify for a retirement visa to Nepal anyway? :-)
But yesterday morning as I was driving to the Metro station, I heard somebody on NPR talking about social networks and how important they are for so many reasons. They were commenting on the difficulty for families of moving to new cities to find work, how that cuts them off from their social networks. Lots of families move to new cities when they retire, however, and I've fantasized about doing this myself. But it would cut me off from my social network.
But what about when the people in my social network move to other cities? Like K and T! The core of my social network at one time, I used to live with them both, if only briefly both. T may well move back, but, still. Am I the only one not allowed to move?
But I remember moving to the DC area in 1992, now 32 years ago, and having no social network in the area. I had to build one. Slowly. I was greatly assisted by KWC moving in with me, after one year of a long-distance relationship. When KWC broke up with me some years later, I had to work extra hard at building up my own social network. It takes time. And back then I was a hot young thing LOL.
None of this is imminent, neither retirement, nor moving. But now, I can.
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I'm up in the middle of the night. Perhaps I'll fall back asleep. Whether I do or not, I'll be teleworking today, and at some point taking a break to run 3 or 4 miles. Or perhaps I'll run before my workday begins.
I'd love to quit early and perhaps head to the condo for a night to self. T has no plans for the weekend, yet. B is out of town, so he won't see T during this visit, so there's no need for me to vacate to give them2 space. I'll have a discussion with T later about my potentially spending either Friday or Saturday night at K's condo. But T leaves on Monday, so I definitely won't do a two-night stay. But I'd so love a night away.
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I'm so out of practice with reading books. A couple years ago I was making a point of it, my Books of the Moon series. But a couple years ago I was also making a point of inviting people over for monthly Game Days. Then my job became so much more stressful. So far, 2024 isn't as bad as 2023, but I'm definitely not back to 2022. I'm encouraged that things have improved compared to last year.
So can I make a point of reading books again? One per New Moon. I missed the starting point with March 10, but let's jump in a bit late anyway.
I'm going to reread Dune by the afternoon of April 8. 48 chapters, read a couple chapters per day to stay on track. You can do this, Bug!
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OK, today's minimum of two chapters have been read :-)