Making Progress

It’s crazy how much an extra day off can invigorate you.

It’s Sunday night, the house is clean, the dog is tired and I have another tee time set for the morning.

I worked on the new book a little - it will be officially released on September 23rd - and I worked on the one after that.

We hung out a bit and the talk of my eventual retirement was a topic.

I mentioned the day I have picked out and Kathy immediately said:

“NO!”

“What’re you talking about? That will be plenty,” I said.

She laughed.

“I watch you. You don’t stop moving. You won’t last two weeks.”

Yet, I told her all about the plans I’ve made to not go stir crazy.

“I don’t need to climb ladders well into my 60’s to be fulfilled.”

“You don’t need to, but you want to!”

And of course, that’s not always true.

“Thing is, I’m closer than you think. I don’t need yo rush out of bed every day for the rest of my life.”

She laughed.

“Okay, I bet you that you can’t sit still for 40 minutes,” she said,

“I can do that,”

We had a show on. 

Easy enough!

Twenty minutes later, me and Ollie were playing catch.

“Told you,” she said.

“I can’t deny the dog,” I answered.

Thing is, I certainly enjoyed having a 3-day weekend.

I hardly worked at all!

I’m

Making 

Progress.