Hawaii Boy

My internal reading switch, that had shut off years ago has been switched back on. Since forever, like many, I lost the ability to read books, I would only read social media, blog post, news articles with a few long form articles peppered in.

Through the years I started a number of books and didn’t have the patience to get past a few pages. Mostly self improvement or science.

In the past couple of weeks, I’ve dusted off my Kindle Paperwhite and have been hooked, like many years ago with paper books.

I think it’s a combination of what’s going on in the world, I felt like I needed something comforting and I had time on my hands. Yesterday I laid under a tree at the beach and read for 4 hours. I haven’t done that for 20 years.

The other key was the first author I went to after seeing something on Social Media was Samuel Becket. I was sucked back in. Right now I am reading Walden for the first time since college and the Wilderness Essays by John Muir. More Samuel Becket and Ralph Waldo Emerson in the queue.

Will budget my RSS feed and social media time.

This will be fun

My internal reading switch, that had shut off years ago has been switched back on. Since forever, like many, I lost the ability to read books, I would only read social media, blog post, news articles with a few long form articles peppered in. Through the years I started a number of books and didn't have the patience to get past a few pages. Mostly self improvement or science. In the past couple of weeks, I've dusted off my Kindle Paperwhite and have been hooked, like many years ago with paper books. I think it’s a combination of what’s going on in the world, I felt like I needed something comforting and I had time on my hands. Yesterday I laid under a tree at the beach and read for 4 hours. I haven't done that for 20 years. The other key was the first author I went to after seeing something on Social Media was Samuel Becket. I was sucked back in. Right now I am reading Walden for the first time since college and the Wilderness Essays by John Muir. More Samuel Becket and Ralph Waldo Emerson in the queue. Will budget my RSS feed and social media time. This will be fun

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.

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.