h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I may not get much done these days but the thoroughness of my procrastination is impeccable if I do say so myself. In fact I feel like I'm taking it to a whole new level I never even could imagine the existence of. Yay me.

Yay, you!



lil x

[Writes note to self not to put off posting in this thread -- if there's time.....]

enjoy your leisure

GB

Thanks dears

After six months of leisure I fee I should be doing something

I'll brew meself a nice mug of

if you need something to do, you can swap with me

Thanks for the kind offer but I just put the kettle on and am exhausted

Join the club.
Always have something that needs doing. That's the way to enjoy doing what you want to do.

Yeah. Freedom is to do what you like. Happiness is to like what you're doing. Or something

I read a lot more than I used to, and I keep devising new projects. I hope I have enough time left in which to finish them.

Oh I have an abundancy of projects! They have been piling up over the years. In particular in the time since I decided when to retire. When the decision was finally made, that's when I started to postpone for real!
These last six months I have gone over all these projects in my mind again and again and I now have a mental list of in which order to realize them. Now "all" I have to do is getting started.
Mind you, while plannning like this is very time consuming even plans like these are as frail as any other plans. Nothing is quite as frail as plans. Not even the best laid plans.
Still, I'd better think them through again - just to be on the safe - well, safer - side. Well, a little bit safer anyway.

Pierce, I hope you are having a very enjoyable retirement and that you will be able to pursue your hobbies and interests.

Isn't it amazing, how being busy allows you to get going on so many things, and plenty of time allows nothing at all to happen?

I've been without assignment for a while (starting new one in a few days only) and have to push myself to do stuff, and really really pat my own back when I've completed, or nothing at all would continue to happen.

Enjoy what you have, and get going when you feel like it.

Thank you for all your well-wishing! Muchly appreciated!

I have to admit that I haven't procrastinated with all my projects since my retirement

I finally got around to emptying my very large and ramshackled shed of all the useless stuff that accumulated in it since I bought my house in 1998 and tear down the roof and front thus turning the shed into a very nice terrace which I have enjoyed sitting on throughout the very nice summer we've been having here in Denmark this year

I also managed to mow my lawn three times

My projects are proceeding quite well. Four years ago I had just 100 Cds, and now I have more than 1,600 of them. Roughly equal amounts of Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and 20th Century Musicals/Pop music. The latest batch of CDs to arrive in the mail include: chamber music by Francois Couperin, a Greatest hits CD by Talking heads, some Mozart organ music, and a greatest hits CD by Men at Work.

I've found something you could put off doing, Pierce. I just noticed that you still have a bbc. link on your PS.

Now I mention, it - so, probably, have I.

Thanks for pointing that out to me, TC

I have now corrected that and made a few other adjustments while I was at it

I think I deserve a weekend now

If you're lucky, you might get one tomorrow.

So - how do you differentiate between workdays and weekends when you're retired (my mother finds that all the days seem the same.)

It is one of the hardest tasks, I can tell you! In spring I celebrated retirement, holidays AND a bank holiday all at the same time - and felt it extremely difficult to be thrice as joyous as usual on a day off

And I'm not waiting till tomorrow, I'm starting on my weekend right now!