Breaking the retiree code

[susandennis]

A recently retired friend told me years ago that the rule of a good retirement is to never book more than one thing a day. I just looked at the calendar for the week and ARUGH! I have both an eye doctor appointment and my meeting with the CPA both on Friday... the 13th.

But the rest of the week is clear so I can spend it stressing over my lack of calendar integrity. Sigh.

And speaking of integrity - this time austerity program integrity - I just splurged on a 2T external hard drive. I keep a lot of shit on my google hard drive. A while back I copied the most important shit onto a thumb drive that I can plug into my phone or laptop and I keep it on my keyring.

But, I have a boatload of MP3's and a yacht load of patterns - knitting, sewing, crochet patterns - that would be impossible/prohibitively expensive to replace. So I want to make a copy of all of it and a external hard drive seems the most practical solution. So I bought. It will be here on Wednesday. I did think about the pile of external drives that I threw out when I moved. But, most of them were tiny - big physically, but with only the smallest amount of storage since back when I bought them, 2T would have cost hundreds of $ - this morning I paid $50.

Then I also paid my car insurance. Which, shockingly, went down. $150 for six months. Nice. Condo insurance is due in January.

On today's hit parade is aqua yoga this afternoon. And before that the usual lunch with Hazel and John. I started a new puzzle out in the elbow. It's a low cost way to fulfill my social obligations. People can see I'm alive. I can say high to everyone as they come and go with no requirement for long conversations. Plus, I get to do a puzzle without cats fucking it up.

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Comments

[maju]

Wow, your car insurance is so cheap! Mine is at least three times that.

[bill_schubert]

I've ended up with the one thing a day rule by chance. It is usually pickleball OR the Ranch. That fills the daily quota for the week. I do get a bit stressed if there is something else.

Unscheduled time to vacuum. Thinking about it, planning to do it, having some more coffee, waiting for Dana to leave for her appointment, one more cup of coffee and then the 10 minutes it takes to actually vacuum. And recovery.

Retirement is not easy.

[susandennis]

good thing we're professionals

[msconduct]

The bigger drives get, the more data seem to expand to fill them. My last external drive was 16TB and that's only one of the four I need. Sigh.

[arlie]

> A recently retired friend told me years ago that the rule of a good retirement is to never book more than one thing a day. I just looked at the calendar for the week and ARUGH! I have both an eye doctor appointment and my meeting with the CPA both on Friday... the 13th. <

I'm still having a lot of two thing days. Maybe that means I'm not really retired ;-) Or at least not doing it right. OTOH, bridge 3 times a week is a lovely privilege of retirement - but if I followed the one thing rule would leave me only two week days a week for all those things that need "normal business hours", aka "not on the weekend".

[siglinde999]

$150 for six months? That’s insanely cheap. My daughter pays almost that each month, and that’s with an excellent driving record since she got her license a decade ago and still being covered under my insurance to get a better rate. Admittedly, her $140 is in Canadian dollars, but it’s still far more than yours.