As much as I would like to be the kind of person that journals and is witty and fun. Its seems I'm just not. So here I am after another year with no updates. I'll start with a few life updates then move on to the next big event that we are starting to seriously plan for.
My daughter is now finishing up her second year at Ferris State University working towards a degree in Hospitality. She did her first internship at Disney last summer and really enjoyed it. My son is currently a Junior in HS. He moved to the public schools this year and has been fully embracing all the sports and other club activities they have to offer. This year he decided to join the tennis team, wrestling team, and thought about golf for a minute but decided to stick with the Trap shooting team. Last year the coach's for that team decided to move on and I took over as the coach. It's been interesting, I've learned a lot, and as a result I don't seem to be shooting much this year. The other big change around here is that I decided to retire at the end of July last year. I had been with IBM for 26 years and they asked that I move to Austin, TX. Having been pretty burned out at work and very settled here in our small town of Monroe Michigan the idea of moving to a much higher cost of living city in TX did not sound like a fun idea. So I took an exit package and its worked out great. Folks talk about all the time they will have when they retire.. I thought it would be fantastic.. I would get to read more, catch up on projects around the house, be out on the boat more. Yea none of that really happened. My step mom died (my last parent) shortly after I left work. She had Altizmers and had been in a care facility since about the midway point of our Great Loop trip back in 2022. So I spent a few months dealing with the fall out from that. Presently I'm down to just taxes and one other thing I'm going to have to hire a lawyer to help with. Then there is all other stuff that just seems to fill in the cracks that keeps us all busy. Life has been good since leaving work. I have not missed it or the routine at all. We had been budgeting everything down to the cost of tooth paste over the last few years to see if it would be possible and I'm happy to report everything seems good financially. I have not looked at any of those crazy financial planning tools since leaving work that I had been obsessing over. For the moment we are spending less money than expected without feeling that we are missing out on anything. Oh yea and we got a new dog. Scrolling Facebook a cute dog showed up from a friend that helps with a Bermese Mountain Dog rescue. He looked like a trouble maker and of course was really cute so we offered to be a landing spot for him. After a few months he seemed to be fitting in and we officially adopted him. His original name was Atlas, he was not working out for the original owners so they found a farmer that wanted him up near Big Rapids. They renamed him Remi. Seems he had spent a lot of time in his crate with the original owner and as a result had a lot of energy, was very heard headed, not well trained, and wanted to fight over the word no but otherwise seemed like a happy dog that wanted to please. After biting that guy a few times they called the rescue and we stepped in right before Thanksgiving. So now we have crazy house bear named Remi.
With that said it's time to start thinking about our next adventure after kids. Maybe I've been watching to many YouTube sailing channels but I'm pretty convinced that sailing around the world might be a fun thing to do.
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