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So Many Cars Not Enough . . .
Usually after a couple of single malts and several 2005 Silver Oaks Cabernet, I would never consider publishing The Blog. Tonight is different.
I got a call today from Linda at The Ocean Institute. The OI is a charity that raises money to be good stewards of the ocean realm. Devin and I have been supporters for several years. This year they are having a Laguna Beach Million Dollar home raffle.
Linda reminded me that they were having some early bird bids announce today. She explained many of the fabulous gifts that were awarded today. She then told me that Devin and I had won the first place early bird prize. It is a brand new Toyota Prius.
Now regular readers will remember that about 5 weeks ago we won an Audi Q 5 SUV. What a pleasant surprise. Yeah, even Devin and I are a bit overwhelmed as we have won two cars in 5 weeks. Who da thought.
On top of that we got scooped for the bill at Hanna's, tonight by regular readers Dan and Linda. It is really hard to scoop me at Hanna's, but they made it clear that they were buying and Dan had recently climbed Mt. Whitney, so I was not about to argue.
Dave and team (Andrea, Rachel, and Lauren) did a magnificent job as usual. We all enjoyed the Waygu Beef. It was a wonderful evening with great friends, great food, and great service.
Today I had the pleasure of having breakfast with the guys. Tom, Tim Mike and Russ arrived and we enjoyed political banter and good stories about recent life experiences. I was recovering from a whacky back disorder so I chose not to brave the course today, but hope to make a round tomorrow.
Tomorrow is Jack's 16th Birthday. Devin went scouring the country side looking for gifts for man child. I chose to work on making our guest room a bit more presentable for the arrival of Dorothy, my mother in law.
While I was making that happen I had time to consider other observations about being retired and life in general. Many of you enjoy this segment so here it be:
Who decided that light switches need to be up if they are on and down for when they are off? I actually stopped upon using our bathroom to consider this?
I did not know there were rules to retirement. Devin came home from running all over God's good creation yesterday and was disappointed that the morning dishes were not cleaned and put away. Now I am new at this retirement thing and these dishes were always put a way when I got home from work so I assumed we had people that came in late in the day and squared away the kitchen. Apparently Not.
I have learned not to brag about anything I do during the day, because it is expected. Upon declaring, "I cleaned up the cat barf yesterday.", I did not get the accolades I was expecting.
I have learned not to sit on the couch after a PBJ sandwich because your eyes get really heavy. If you want to telepathically get a call from your wife, just close your eyes. I swear it works every bloody time.
No matter what kind of change you have in your car, it will never be the correct change for the fast food cashier. Really. In the last two weeks, whether it be a drink or a sandwich, I NEVER have 29 cents or 58 cents, but now I have 328 dollars worth of change.
I have way to much Sox, that is S O X aka socks. Ok I have 36 pair of white sox. I did not know this until I counted them today. We are fortunate to have Maria and her team of wonderful ladies who keep our mess manageable. The also do all our laundry once a week. I do not wear white socks every day. Since starting my back deconstruction exercises I might wear six pair of socks a week. Why do I have 36 pair here and about 19 pair in Utah?
Buttons. I did not know till I was retired how many times my dry cleaner breaks buttons. I know it happened in the past, but did not realize how common this is. My partners at PADI probably though I wore dress shirts every day, but that was not the case. I wore them for special meetings and Board Meetings.
I have about two dozen dress shirts and I enjoy wearing them in my retirement. All the ones without buttons had made their way to designated DO NOT WEAR zone in my closet. I have about 6 shirts that have had buttons broke off by the dry cleaners. I know it was them because I do not loose buttons. I will bet I have sent some of these shirts to the dry cleaners 3 or 4 times because the buttons are missing.
Devin now tells me I must write a note on a piece of tape that says Button so they know to replace it. How about I write one that says "idiot". Come on you are ironing a shirt. How hard it to spot a missing button. You see the little dickey thread thing and say, "Whao, I'll bet there was a button there once!"
It is amazing what I am learning as a retiree.
Here is another one. The trash can in the kitchen does not empty itself. It's true! I would leave for work in the morning and it was empty and when I got home on most nights, it was empty. I assumed there was some kind of chute that took the trash out to the back of the house and put it on the trash cans. Apparently not.
Also, these cans do not tell me they need to be emptied. They do tell Devin, and apparently they are not very polite about it because since I have been home more, when they tell Devin they need to be emptied, she does not handle it very well.
I don't know what they say to her but she can get really upset and grab the bags and slam doors all they way out to the back of the house to the garbage cans and then she returns to the kitchen and calls them "Absolutley Worthless."
These are just few more of the observations I have made since being retired.
While not emptying trash cans and replacing buttons, I had time to do homework on another stock. One we all know and love, AAPL Apple.
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