three whole weeks off work ? what magic is this ?

taking it slow is how I’m doing prepping my house for the big move too.

And even though I sort of had a plan, I also learned the hard way that painting walls is a lot more work than I was expecting it to be. I had estimated it to be a week worth, but I’m forgot that I didn’t have the gear and am so not build for physical jobs either 😀

In hindsight it probably would have been faster if I had hired painters to do the things I’ve done, but otoh … I wouldn’t have learned new skills.  Planning a second holiday and then getting to endure all the heat didn’t help move things along.Anyways … as of today all rooms on the first floor have had their walls painted (white). No time to relax, because I’ve got the living room to do and it’s a big one that also involves clearing out a lot of the things  had been storing there while I was working on the first floor.oh … and I really hope the trike I had ordered a little over a month ago is with me soon. I haven’t heard a peep, but given that it has to travel from far away it wasn’t realistic to expect the exact 4-6 weeks estimate I had been given.I had a kickstarter arrive before the deadline it had set, which is cool as that rarely happens.Here’s a few of the minis

Pledge: Keep pushing through unpainted miniatures

Leave? What is this thing you speak of? No work=no money=no food/necessities. Support your miniature economy! Does it technically stand as a microeconomics issue?

@danlee A whole year and no painting of Secret Satan figures from last year? For shame! Eh, no real judgment as I’ve still got stuff from a decade ago I had built bases for but haven’t done anything more to. Procrastination ftw!

@limburger More stuff to paint in 1:1 scale and smaller. All this work and you’d think that living a real life was a career unto itself.

@grantinvanman Yes, to be be productively unproductive means you aren’t industrial. The everyday experience of thinking what you want to do is odd when you had the plan of “go to work” being a time of unthinking grind. It’s not a wonder more people drop off immediately after retiring when they realize it takes so much effort to organize and be active on their own terms. It’s why I push my dad to get a hobby not before he decides to finally commit to his second retirement.

It seems we have a reason for that insanity

The evil of deer from Japan

@limburger – army officer at 18, followed by a good government career. It’s weird how fast 29 years went by… let’s hear it for great pension plans!

No lottery, just a bit of slogging through the drudgery of bureaucracy until the finish line approached. I have few regrets, honestly.

Since then I have volunteered at a couple of places, travelled a lot (with a pause from 2020-2022, for The End Times); now I do hobby gaming stuff, I’m relearning guitar, and of course … travel! Five countries, four continents, all in the past year. ✈️

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My pledge this week is to relax as I’m on holiday for few days… next week I’ll get stuck into hobby.

Hobhy this week involves taking photos of things to inspire my writing of a homebrew campaign and finding a couple of rocks suited to texturing foam board. I also locate nearest gaming shop to where I’m staying ?

Next week I’m painting and writing and making.

That’s pretty much the planning part on holiday.

Succeeded on rocks and making progress on pictures. Visited game shop and bought nothing… yet.

The main reason I chose to retire young was watching other people I knew, who had similar career trajectories, and retired before 50. Two were dead of cancer within a year. Made me think and change my priorities, massively. I’ve now outlived them, so the plan is working!

Also, @pagan8th you should get a licence of some kind. At various times in my life I’ve held licences for military vehicles (fun!), motorcycle, and of course normal cars. Even though I drive under 5,000km a year, the freedom option is worth it, to me.