We started a couple months ago, but I've been busy enough to not start this blog until now.

Really, I'm pretty sure no one reads this, but it does help me feel productive and gives me a place to remember things.

When we started planning for retirement a few decades ago, I had an audacious plan to retire around 45 or so. We missed the mark by a dozen years, but made it still earlier than many. I still have a desire to move from the tundra to the tropics, but we have school-age kids (and yes, still retired), so we're compromising with a future plan...which I'm trying to shorten...but until then, we're retiring in place.

We decided to not make any overly ambitious plans, basically living our everyday lives, just without all the office visits and remote work for the company. With that decision, we set out to just see what happens with that model. We've got some projects and ideas and things we know we need to do, and lots of time to do them. We hope to fill our time with things we've been postponing because work was in the way: our basement and garage are full of pandemic storage and clutter; we've neglected our yard garden for too long; we sacrifice good food choices for convenience because of time pressure. Just having the time to do what we want when we want to is driver enough.

It's worked well so far. I quip that I'm doing more than is expected, but sometimes not as much as I think I could. Not a bad place to be, I think.

The kids are out of school (for a week or so), so some of our schedules have shifted. We're moving to need to be a little more proactive.

So instead of doing that, I started this blog...heh.