{"id":1254,"date":"2019-02-28T22:44:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T03:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kakahead.com\/?p=1254"},"modified":"2019-02-28T22:44:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T03:44:54","slug":"50-what-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kakahead.com\/?p=1254","title":{"rendered":"50 What Now??"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So there I was, minding my own\nbusiness, enjoying life, the universe, and everything (42 for those\nin the know) (nudge nudge, wink wink), and oh yeah by the way I’m\nfixin’ to enjoy my 65th<\/sup> trip around the Sun; when suddenly\nsome radio guy says an astonishing FaceTalking thing: this summer\nwill ring in the 50th<\/sup> anniversary of Woodstock; and I\ncan’t believe it because, hey, I was 15 that year and I would really\nliked <\/strong><\/em>to\nhave gone to that magnificent experience but there was no way in\nH-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks that <\/strong><\/em>was\ngonna happen so I listened intently to every piece of music on the\nradio that had anything to do with all the concert action and HOLY\nMOLY this run-on sentence is OUT OF CONTROL!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*<\/strong>Whew!!*<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This\naging stuff is so crazy!! I consider myself very fortunate… my\nhealth is good; and I can pretty much do everything I was able to do\nwhen I was much younger. The only difference is that sometimes it\nhurts or sometimes it takes longer. Apparently I don’t look to worn\nout. I was setting up a computer for one of my very new coworkers;\nand I mentioned that I had a \u201cbig birthday\u201d coming up. She\nasked, \u201coh, are you going to hit 50?\u201d My immediate response was,\n\u201cwe can be FRIENDS!!<\/strong><\/em>\u201d\n <\/em>Not\nsure if she was sucking up for some future special computer help or\nwhat… OK probably not; but I took it as a nice compliment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saw\nmy doctor the other day, and we chatted about my upcoming retirement\nnext year. She urged me to make a plan, because \u201csome people have\na difficulty with too much time on their hands.\u201d Umm… no problem\nfor this kid!! I have a few million things I want to do, so\nhopefully I’ll actually get to do maybe a tenth of what’s been\nfloating around in my mind for the past several years. I love to\ngrow food, and I also enjoy writing. I think I’d like to try my hand\nat teaching food how to write. Perhaps we could use beet juice for\nink!! That would involve some \u201cbloodletting\u201d from some\n\u201cvolunteer\u201d beets. Now that I think of it, I’ve never heard\nbeets volunteer for anything. And thankfully, I’ve never heard beets\ncry when they are bleeding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m\noften asked, would we be doing any travel? Well we sure hope so. \nOne of the big things on the agenda, though, is to clean up the mess\nin the garage that’s the result of that giant Clutter Bomb exploding\nin there. A Clutter Bomb simply has <\/strong><\/em>to\nbe what caused that mess. I mean, I walk around in the garage and I\nfall to my knees and scream \u201cwhere did all this crap come from??\u201d\n Then I get up and remember where the hammer is and oh yeah there’s\nmy drill and HOLY CARP I found that door hinge I buried in the back\nof the shelf about 12 years ago!! So OK, the Clutter Bomb exploded\nvery gradually… over the course of the 37 years we’ve lived here. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\nare, of course, other parts of our little universe that have suffered\nClutter Bomb explosions. I’ll get to those too… just have to chip\naway at it. I really do <\/strong><\/em>plan\nto stop procrastinating. That will happen either tomorrow or perhaps\na couple weeks after that. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\nhope. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the meantime, I can hardly wait\u00a0<\/strong><\/em> to see what advances lie ahead for the travel scene…<\/p>\n\n\n\n