My lazy day
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I woke up at my usual early time today - 4:30 or so. Not too bad when you consider that I went to bed at 9.
Stayed in bed until 6, reading the news, email, etc.
Coffee at 6.
Went for a 4 mile walk at 8, returning home at about 9:30. Laid down on the couch and continued reading "Redemption Ark."
Chili for lunch.
"Master and Commander" in the early afternoon, then more news, browsing etc.
Nap time at about 3:30, for an hour.
Dinner was leftover turkey from a meal I made about a month ago.
Wasting time on FB, TNCR, etc.
I love being retired.
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Isn't it great?
However, my sleeping habits have changed. All my life I have been an 8 hour sleeper, early to be early to rise. Now I'm going to be a bit later, but sleeping more like 9.5 hours.
Today - up at 9:30,
coffee (1 hr)
farted around online
Cleaned the kitchen
Shower
Up to Lebanon to pick up an order
Home and lunch
Exercised 30 minute cardio
All this is intermittently catching pieces of Harry Potter movies
Turned on Baylor-Houston game (final four)
Fired up some bratwurst
Ate while farting around online
Turning on Gonzaga-UCLA (also final four) -
Woke up about 0600.
Drank a cup of coffee, grabbed a couple pieces of toast and my morning meds.
Got a shower and fresh shave, fed the dogs, then headed down to the in-laws.
Spaded, chopped and raked down MIL's raised beds.
Stopped for lunch with SIL's family, my wife, daughter's family, and my FIL and MIL. It was our easter dinner, with the usual air-fryed turkey and a beef roast.
Fished in the farm pond with the granddaughter.
Propped my feet up, drank some coffee and listened to my nephew play the dobro, while his fiance picked guitar, and both sang.It was a laid-back day.
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I am blessed with the fact that, at my age (71 this month), I still have pretty good health. Nothing that's not well-controlled.
I am blessed with a partner with whose foibles I put up with, and, more importantly, puts up with mine.
I am blessed that I'm still pretty active, inquisitive and curious.
Simon and Garfunkel:
"Can you imagine use years from today?
Sitting on a park bench quietly.
How terribly strange to be seventy."I've never been more content than I've been since Halloween 2016. the day I retired.
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Woke up my usual 6:45. Coffee a bite to eat and off to the hardware store to buy a 22 guage pneumatic stapler. Oddly enough they were on sale! Spent the rest of day the helping to upolster a chair my wife is redoing. There are several furniture building projects in line. This was the easy one. The rest are from scratch.
Elbows up!
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Woke up my usual 6:45. Coffee a bite to eat and off to the hardware store to buy a 22 guage pneumatic stapler. Oddly enough they were on sale! Spent the rest of day the helping to upolster a chair my wife is redoing. There are several furniture building projects in line. This was the easy one. The rest are from scratch.
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The table saw and compressor were possibly the two best tool investments I ever made.
I think I'll have to get a buscuit jointer for this furniture. We'll see. I've never used one.
Elbows up!
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The table saw and compressor were possibly the two best tool investments I ever made.
I think I'll have to get a buscuit jointer for this furniture. We'll see. I've never used one.
@renauda said in My lazy day:
I'll have to get a buscuit jointer
I bought one in the last century. It's fantastic. I'm not sure I'd trust it for high-stress joints where a traditional mortise/tenon would be better, but for simple and quick alignments, it's wonderful. I'm sure they've gotten better over the decades.
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The table saw and compressor were possibly the two best tool investments I ever made.
I think I'll have to get a buscuit jointer for this furniture. We'll see. I've never used one.
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Woke up my usual 6:45. Coffee a bite to eat and off to the hardware store to buy a 22 guage pneumatic stapler. Oddly enough they were on sale! Spent the rest of day the helping to upolster a chair my wife is redoing. There are several furniture building projects in line. This was the easy one. The rest are from scratch.
@renauda said in My lazy day:
Woke up my usual 6:45. Coffee a bite to eat and off to the hardware store to buy a 22 guage pneumatic stapler. Oddly enough they were on sale! Spent the rest of day the helping to upolster a chair my wife is redoing. There are several furniture building projects in line. This was the easy one. The rest are from scratch.
Renauda, I would love to see pictures of these projects. I have been learning basic upholstery, and was brave enough to post pics here.
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We learn from advice from savy friends but mostly, a combination of YouTube videos plus trial and error.
I'll try to post some pictures as things develop.
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Nobody asked, but whatever, y'all are doing it, so:
- Woke up at 8. Ran outside to try to take advantage of the morning light. I had 4 photos left of my Ektachrome project and about 4 photos left of HP5, and I'd yet to try to take some morning light photos to test the dynamic range. Got outside, found a place to meter in the back yard, and then I shit you not, the light changed and never returned. So I brought all my stuff back inside.
- Had tea with my wife from about 8:15 to 9:15.
- Went back outside. Took a couple of photos. Realized the ISO setting on the light meter was set to the HP5, not the Ektachome, effectively ruining the two photos I just took. Nice. Retook them with the right settings, thus finishing off the roll.
- The Pentax has a problem with the advance lever. It only lets me get to 32 photos, not 36. Maybe it's advancing too far per shot? Only way to know is to get the film developed and look at the negative strip. So, well, that roll's done too now, I suppose.
- Took kiddo outside. Got the Puckster out too, so he could stretch his legs.
- Did egg dying stuff with kiddo. She was impressed at first, then all kinds of was not but hey she's still pretty young for it. I made a pretty baller one that does this gradient thing from blue to yellow.
- Started on the food for today. I made chicken & dumplings, my wife made berry pie. Not traditional for Easter but badass nonetheless.
- FaceTime with my folks, then with some friends of ours in Richmond.
- Ate way too much. Way. Regret nothing.
- Put kiddo to sleep.
- Getting the last of the tea out of the pot I started this morning, as is per usual.
I don't think you could pay me enough to even serious consider working in some dumbshit office again.
Please love yourself.
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Nobody asked, but whatever, y'all are doing it, so:
- Woke up at 8. Ran outside to try to take advantage of the morning light. I had 4 photos left of my Ektachrome project and about 4 photos left of HP5, and I'd yet to try to take some morning light photos to test the dynamic range. Got outside, found a place to meter in the back yard, and then I shit you not, the light changed and never returned. So I brought all my stuff back inside.
- Had tea with my wife from about 8:15 to 9:15.
- Went back outside. Took a couple of photos. Realized the ISO setting on the light meter was set to the HP5, not the Ektachome, effectively ruining the two photos I just took. Nice. Retook them with the right settings, thus finishing off the roll.
- The Pentax has a problem with the advance lever. It only lets me get to 32 photos, not 36. Maybe it's advancing too far per shot? Only way to know is to get the film developed and look at the negative strip. So, well, that roll's done too now, I suppose.
- Took kiddo outside. Got the Puckster out too, so he could stretch his legs.
- Did egg dying stuff with kiddo. She was impressed at first, then all kinds of was not but hey she's still pretty young for it. I made a pretty baller one that does this gradient thing from blue to yellow.
- Started on the food for today. I made chicken & dumplings, my wife made berry pie. Not traditional for Easter but badass nonetheless.
- FaceTime with my folks, then with some friends of ours in Richmond.
- Ate way too much. Way. Regret nothing.
- Put kiddo to sleep.
- Getting the last of the tea out of the pot I started this morning, as is per usual.
I don't think you could pay me enough to even serious consider working in some dumbshit office again.
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@aqua-letifer That's a very good day, Aqua.
@brenda said in My lazy day:
@aqua-letifer That's a very good day, Aqua.
Couldn't have asked for better.
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We don't have a "like" button, but if we did, I'd hit that.
Great day, Aqua, even though I didn't understand shit about the photography stuff you posted.
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We don't have a "like" button, but if we did, I'd hit that.
Great day, Aqua, even though I didn't understand shit about the photography stuff you posted.
@george-k said in My lazy day:
Great day, Aqua, even though I didn't understand shit about the photography stuff you posted.
Basically I fucked up. That pretty much sums it up.
Please love yourself.
