72 degrees this morning, forecast high of 100 degrees
The mornings and evenings are still cool, but hardly cold. The daytime is hot. I love this time of year! Something about the hot weather just is my place in the sun, so to speak. I’m hardly a sun fanatic, but I really like this time of year when it is the uncompromising hot!
Very enjoyable day Friday, catching up with news about family, discussing different subjects (politics and religion excluded for the most part), it is just an enjoyable time. The fact we are together several days (although many come up for one day) allows us the luxury of knowing we will have another opportunity to talk, so we don’t feel we have to rush to say everything at one time and we know we will eventually be able to have a conversation with everyone.
The being together several times, also allows us to get away for private side trips, swimming in the hotel pool or just hanging out in the room or taking a break.
Kim and Eleanor arrived around noon.
Yesterday I went swimming in the hotel pool with Katherine (and later Jerry) and it was a blast that gave me a chance to visit in a way.
Lunch at Red Lobster was excellent food and conversation. (I like the lunch catfish “blackened’” and it gives Aliene a chance to have a gluten free dessert, the cheesecake.
I don’t know if it reached 100 degrees yesterday, but it was hot.
I believe I am slowing weaning myself away from reading the local (or other) newspaper although I do sneak a peek at the electronic versions. TV news is ok, but I like newspaper because I can look at it wherever and whenever I want and I can skip the articles and stories I don’t want to bother with. As mentioned previously, I never watch the videos, it takes too much time.
Time was discussed a lot yesterday, as our generation reaches retirement age, although I think all of us have a concept of an active retirement, or, in my case, not a retirement, but an encore career, or, still possible, another stage of my City Manager career.
I always envisioned having time to read what I wanted, but perhaps that isn’t what I really want. I like the feeling of sneaking my reading into my busy life and I begin to realize the truth of the quote I have used several times on this. I think if I really had time to read what I wanted, I wouldn’t to read continuously and I like having to actually make time for reading.
What ti really strange is that in the last seven months, I have probably read less than I did before. (Although during the moving part, which actually has lasted over period of several months, I just feel I have to prioritize my moving and job hunting and don’t take the time to read books.) I look at m unread books with regret, but there is still the promise of books I want to read in the future and sometimes the promise is as good as the actual action. I simply donate many of my magazines, unread. I know I will never take the time to read a back issue (with some exceptions, I always eventually read my Wired, Public Management, and several others. Some of them, I like the idea of reading, but I have realized I will never read them, so I cancel the subscriptions as they come up and don’t bother to think that I will eventually get “round tu it”. I feel a tinge of regret at the magazines and books unread, but….
I really need to return to my “15 minutes a day” reading of magazine at a minimum. When I return to stationary bike riding, I expect to catch up on magazines instead of reading newspapers. Not quite as much fun, but I can’t read an old newspaper and I consider a newspaper “old” if it is past 8 a.m. in the morning.
Ken and Janet arrived just before we went to bed (they were visiting Aunt Eleanor and Chuck).
The Reunion will actually start today, more will arrive and we will have use of a room this afternoon. This is good for the persons who come up for one day and also provides a meeting place.
That’s it for now, Saturday, July 12, 2014.
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