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If It’s Tuesday, It Must Be Ireland
That’s an obscure reference to an old comedy, but it also describes our 16 day whirlwind tour of Ireland. We spent our first two days exploring Dublin on our own and recovering from jet lag (it was a long flight from LAX to London then London to Dublin and I can’t sleep on planes). We…
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It’s a new year, so time for a new post
2025 has arrived like a shitstorm. LA seems to be burning up, and though the fires are far away from us, thank goodness, the emotional impact is still there. It’s like a collective holding of our breath waiting for the other shoe to drop as our world is on fire. But life, as always, goes…
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Semi-annual semi-adventure update
It’s been a while since I did something other than grouse about my injuries here. I am still in physical therapy getting over all of the various secondary issues I created for myself by breaking my elbow. Next on the hit parade: at long last physical therapy for my back! Oh, and this blog and…
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The quest continues
Now that 2023 is behind us (good riddance, I say!), it’s time to officially continue my quest to figure out what the heck I want to do with myself as a retired person. I spent so much of 2023 injured and recovering that I didn’t really have time for anything else. As 2024 begins, I’m…
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Pick yourself up, brush yourself off and start all over again…
Gosh, it’s September! I’d say “hey where has the time gone?” but I know the answer. It’s been a really weird year. Things started out okay – we had a nice trip to Hawaii to celebrate our 20th anniversary in Dec 2022 then came home and had a quiet holiday and welcomed in 2023. So…
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Ctrl-Alt-Esc (aka reboot time!)
Consider this the first post of a new blog. I’m still wrapping my head around the reality, but I retired! Okay, since I was a consultant a better way to phrase it might be that I didn’t renew my contract and we are still keeping the (virtual) lights on at our small business but for…
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