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How I spent my 100 day Spring vacation

I go back to Work Wednesday, been home for 100 days. My Wife has worked at home since mid 2018 This time at home we got some things done. - Emptied a storage locker we had since we moved from a big house to a condo in 2017. Sold, donated and trashed stuff. - Went through 2 closets of old clothes and linens, donated a bunch, vacuum bagged the rest. - Emptied every drawer and cabinet in the kitchen, cleaned and organized. - Emptied and reorganized a large utility closet. - Took up baking - Bread, pretzels, scones and more. - Have an active sourdough starter for future baking. - Watched all 22 Marvel movies in chronological order. - Tried to watch DC movies, but they are all over the place, not on a single service like most of Marvel. - Started and finished about a doz. shows on various streaming networks. - Into season 2 of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. - Donated about 50 books to the friends of the library. - Went back and watched lots of old westerns and WW2 movies that I first watched with my Dad as a kid. - He passed 3 years ago. - Cleaned up our finances and paid off some bills. - Shopped for new mobile phone plans, auto insurance and went through all of our subscriptions. Saved a bucket of $$. - Consolidated about 2 dz. external drives (small thumb drives to many large drives) going back 20 years to less than 4TB. There were lots of duplicates. Music, photos, old Mac back ups - back to Tiger, and lots of docs. Backed up to the 3-2-1 rule. - Went through a couple of large boxes of cables, adapter and chargers - many for devices we haven't had for years. - Found an iPhone 1, iPod Classic, iPod shuffle, iPod Nano, iPod video, iPod touch and few other old phones and they all work. Way more lightning cables than I thought I had. - Things from Kickstarter projects that I backed but never ended up using after a short time. - Lots of other old tech for old network set ups, etc. Did find some things I lost when we moved. - Have the Mac Mini home server dialed in - with all of that consolidated data attached. - We had our Grandsons about 50 of the 100 days - their Dad had to work - single parent. Did a lot school work with them. - Lost 30 pounds. - A lot of time getting Unemployment, but it finally came though in late May. - Cut my drinking from 1-3 drink most days to 1-3 drinks a week and some weeks none. - Back into reading (Kindle) finished 3 books, working on Walden and Wilderness Essays now. Cued up Emerson next. - Lots of other small projects. - Looked for and found a new job. Yay! The only bummer about going back now, there's a lot of good shows coming out in July.