Day One of Retirement

Woke up this morning at about 7:30. I think it was Jan leaving to go to an appointment. I rolled over for a little longer.
7:40 I heard my phone message alert going off and thought it might be Jan so I got up and looked. It was not Jan but from Mary E. Bryant where only a day before I worked, now I do not. It was sending a video of the lights flashing in the school, some kind of glitch in the system.
If that is still going on when the kids get there our principal should just forget about any rigorous education going on today. Don't miss it.
I responded that I was just getting up and had nothing to do with this happening at school. Good luck!
I rolled over and went back to bed till 8am and then got up and made coffee. I could get use to this.

After I had a leisurely breakfast and I read the paper at about 11am I decided to go on a bike ride.
I made a nice stack of rocks at the half way point.
Then after a light lunch Jan and I left to go visit Matt our VALIC guy to go over some more retirement paperwork. He gave me homework to do.
After that we just hung around the house and fixed left overs for dinner.

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