Weatherwise it’s a good time of year here. Sleeping with the windows open. Up before sunrise. One cup of coffee. Fountain pen entries in the journal. Some reading. Arriving at the pool just as the sun rises above the building next to the pool, about 0800. Three hours lying in the sun reading followed by a one hour pool walk. Long hot shower followed by lunch. A two or three hour lie down/nap while NPR drones on the radio. Then open the laptop and make the rounds. Supper about 1700. A couple of bong hits. Back to the interwebs. In bed and lights out at 2200.
Repeat, ad infintum.
I’m still able to pay the bills with my meager retirement income.
The last weed purchase was $40 for an ounce. I’m good for MONTHS!
Homeowners insurance went from $400 annually to $700 last year and this year it went to a thousand. I do have a good policy from a good agent. It is what it is. Total loss of everything on the lot would pay out about $170,000 and the lot itself is valued at $75k to $100k. So yeah, covered.
I’m still vehicle-less. 2025 Uber cost was $96.76. That’s right, I don’t go out much. Once, so far this year, I’ve been out of the park.
I’m reading a brand new John Irving right now. Good stuff.
I figured out a hack for bachelors. Completely by accident. Every since I’d decided to sit to urinate the toilet has remained nearly spotless. I’d scrubbed the thing spotless before the kids visit last March. Here we are a year later and the thing has only needed an inside the bowl ring swab. Remarkable!
Also, during that visit, my Daughter brought my cast iron skillet I’d left with her. I’ve had the thing almost fifty years. It has never been washed with soap and water. Just paper toweled after use. It now rests in its greasy glory on the back of Mom’s new glass-topped range.
I’ll conclude with an interesting fact:
In 2025 in the US half of all women aged 30 were childless and half those will remain childless forever.
If one chooses to not reproduce they’re ending a bloodline that goes back 3.8 billion years.
Does anyone remember before the internet when it was said that people were stupid because of the lack of information? We were so fucking wrong!
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