Archive for February, 2026

Sorting

February 3, 2026

I did manage to take a few steps forward. Just trying to figure out what we have is the current chore.

Not all out, yet

This happened around appointments and errands.

Sockets. Gathered but have not identified duplicates yet.

I did find a bag with extra knobs and pulls  for the kitchen drawers and cabinets. That will be staying. And also paint colors and kitchen floor and countertop samples.

Keeping these as well

A funny šŸ˜¬ aside just now. We’re watching a show. I paused it to go brush my teeth. Carl came upstairs too, said he was looking for a baseball card, and went into the attic storage place. “I’ll only be 5 minutes.” I laughed because there are at least 200,000 cards in that space, and he’s looking for one. To his credit it was certainly less than 10 minutes.

Mind you there is very little value in these cards. Each year there are only a few cards of value out of the thousands produced, and you have to be lucky or rich to get those. What we have is years of accumulation. Someday I will try to explain what all of these cards are about. But that means I would have to understand.

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Nothing Much

February 2, 2026

I feel like I didn’t really do anything today. A little of this, a little of that, cooked dinner, but no major accomplishments.

These are days when I feel I need to do something to succeed at retirement.

I didn’t have a real plan in place for how to fill my time before I retired. I was too busy working. An initial trip helped with the transition. Then the basement flood provided a forced focus. That is still what I call my current job, but nobody gets on my case if I slack off for a day or two or three.

Tomorrow morning has medical type tests, so I get to slack some more, at least until the afternoon.

For now, leaving work on my last day – Halloween as it turned out. No ghosts.

The office building that I was project manager for 30 years ago. Note this is my only building project, I do pipes.
Bottom of the 2 Million Gallon Tank in the background

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Taxing

February 1, 2026

Short Report

  1. Blood DonationĀ  – NOT, again! Low iron, even after consuming spinach egg bites for the last few days. Based on the blood-pressure monitor reading my pulse was too low as well. I made an appointment for a week from now to try again.
  2. Walk, about 7,000 steps worth, most of it when it was not raining.
  3. Taxes – at least started.

All for today.

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