One screw at a time. Shut up.

[albadger]

Second week of semi-retirement (friend Mike A says "it's retirement, dammit, you only know it's semi if you die before it ends") and I've learned something intensely valable. About goals.

I have a built-in goal. This is to sleep until 10 AM and then eat and fiddle with smart phones for 4 hours before deciding it's now too late to do anything.

So setting alternate goals will be important during this exciting time, and setting them every day. Today, for example: my goal was to replace the knob and deadbolt on the storage room door. Key to the old one seems to be irretrievably lost, and the knob itself passed away peacefully during the struggle to get the door opened. Old deadbolt is fine, but without a key it can't be used, so it has to die.

And, yes, I got the new knob and deadbolt into place, with only a screwdriver and my two gnarled hands! Goal of the day accomplished!

By the way, the Goal of yesterday was to go to Home Depot and buy the new knob and deadbolt. If I parcel these goals out properly, it can take days for me to brush my teeth!

Tomorrow's goal: buy floss.

Comments

[susandennis]

Hey, retirement is not for the faint hearted! I've been at it now for 16 months. It gets easier with practice but still there are days when I look for the How To book.

[albadger.livejournal.com]

...and you are my guide and inspiration! Oh, you'll like this, after I got that new lock in and secured the storeroom door, I got an email from the neighbor who is on that side. She thinks I may have locked an animal in there, she heard scratching and banging all night. I checked and no critter -- maybe some impish opossum who came home after a hard day's oppossuming to find itself locked out of its beloved storeroom home?

[susandennis]

hehehehehehehe

[snousle.livejournal.com]

I have a built-in goal. This is to sleep until 10 AM and then eat and fiddle with smart phones for 4 hours before deciding it's now too late to do anything.

I've heard it said that you have found your truest, most fundamental goal in life when it makes you cry. This must be mine, too.

[albadger.livejournal.com]

My services as a Sloth Guidance Counselor are free by the way.

[dhpbear.livejournal.com]

"Step away from the "smart"phones...Step away from the "smart"phones..."

[albadger.livejournal.com]

...the lifesuck is coming from inside the Internet...

[maxauburn.livejournal.com]

Putting a new knob and deadlock into place is no small task!

As for buying floss, I always use Glide.

It's the floss there is, IMHO! :)

[albadger.livejournal.com]

Actually I have divided the floss project into several subgoals, each of which should take at least a week... but I'll have new floss by the end of the year, I swear!

[andybr.livejournal.com]

playing around with knobs is always worthwhile. I appreciate your inbuilt goal...I have a similar one which needs to be fought daily.

[albadger.livejournal.com]

Yep, it's a fight -- but one nice thing about being a homeowner is that your home will remind you when you have to get off your ass and do something... see more recent post...