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I mean really, how did that happen?
I am without ambition today, totally being a sloth and not caring.
I'm kind of missing the old job, not the job so much, but certain people there. I made some very good friends and, truth be told, it hurts not seeing them all the time.
In other news, grandson Roberto observed that Grandpa was heavy.
"You mean, like serious, right?"
"No Grandpa, you have a big belly."
Ah yes, the bluntness of children, probably why I like hanging out with them.
Somehow I will shake this ennui.
Oh wait a minute, going on vacation¹ in a week, down to the Eastern Shore and this paradise ...
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It's going to be great. And yes, no boring moments there, I can tell you.
¹ Seriously Sarge? Aren't you on vacation all of the time now? Well yes, sort of ...
Use " entropy ", it sounds more scientific.
ReplyDeleteIt also has a different meaning.
DeleteOr "ennui"; more " sophisticated ".
ReplyDeleteHaving finally ended my Federal Indenture six years ago I don't recall being bored in any of them; even during WuFlu. If anything, I've been busier, including doing some light editing for a friend ( ahem...something about " Almost a Lifetime" or some such).
There have been exactly two colleagues from my dopey job that I've kept up with; and intermittently at that.
Meantime I've been writing, presenting, teaching with a new group of colleagues.
Traveling, helping my Bride establish her business and a bunch of other things as well.
"Bored"? Nah. You'll adjust.
Boat Guy
I really do need to get off my ass and get that published.
DeleteBeach walking Sarge, good exercise for being "serious".........:)
ReplyDeleteI look forward to contemplating the land/sea interface.
DeleteI am with Boat Guy - this is just an intervening phase before the full flowering of your retirement, that awkward phase of "I do not do that anymore" but "I have not found my groove with other things yet" - although with your gardening, Saturday breakfasts, and visits to family, My father went through the same thing when he retired as I recall.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely hit a rough patch, that's for sure!
DeleteSo as it turns out, I found a reference in another book to a short story called The Superannuated Man by Charles Lamb about retirement. The intersection of the two items is so much a moment of epiphany, it was obviously meant for you:
Deletehttps://fullreads.com/essay/the-superannuated-man/
I shall check that out.
DeleteWhen there is an urge to do nothing, that is an option.
ReplyDeleteSort of like the urge to get up and exercise.
Just wait a while and either of those will pass and you will think of something you'd rather be doing and go do that instead.
Haven't heard much about your drumming lately..... Would that count as exercise?
JB
Haven't drummed in a bit, it is exercise. (Need to clean my room first!)
DeleteThe Italians have a phrase: Com'è bello non fare nulla.
ReplyDeleteThat's an excellent way to look at things!
DeleteIs that the wife in the picture of you and her? Nice pick for sure, very lovely.
ReplyDeleteHeltau
Yup.
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