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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.