This week is my first week of retired life, but it doesn’t really feel that way since it was also the week work was going to have a shutdown… nobody was going to be working.
Originally, the plan was to depart for a sailing vacation for this week and next. However, Vicky needs to work at night and we were hopeful that the boat would sell and therefore did not renew the T-Mobile hotspot. We decided to wait on the sailing (I may take a single-handing trip after she returns to China) and I got started working on my fitness (double workouts most days), reading (working my way through Mark Twain’s Life on the Mississippi) as well as other odd jobs around the house.
On Thursday I did go out to drop the car off for some repairs and ended up at the mall for the first time since the pandemic. That experience felt weird… almost like playing hooky from school. The nearby mall was not dead like a lot of others these days but was fairly empty being a Thursday morning at 11:00 AM.
On Saturday we headed down to the boat. It became evident during that trip that Vicky is REALLY worried about several aspects of my retirement, especially the sequence of return risks I spoke of earlier. Of course we both worry about settling my alimony and selling the boat, but those will resolve themselves in due time. This will take some time to work through. (We ended up not going out sailing.)
On Sunday (Father’s Day), we headed up to John’s house and had a surprise invitation to Jess’s father’s house for a cookout. Joe has a really nice home on the same farmland that John rents from and it was a beautiful afternoon with Levi and the extended family. Vicky seems to greatly enjoy her time with the little one.
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