It’s been 6 weeks since starting the #pension #adventure
It still feels like an extended holiday. Which, as far as it goes is fine. BUT it also means that I’m mentally waiting to agree what to do today with E. which does not help with establishing new habits.
Here’s a short recap of what happened
clearing out the work flat
Done, was as much fun as it sounds like
vacation
We did spent a week of vacation on Walcheren, which was, as always, very nice and relaxing. Though because of weather the kites stayed in their bag.
cycling
September was not a good month, I was still working half of it and then we did clean out the flat.
Oktober is much better, I’ve done 375 km so far, and there is still a week (with a lot of rain forecasted) to go.
photography
Still getting to grips with the new camera. I’m quite happy with it. I’m now about 1800 pictures in and starting to appreciate the possibilities. Also I’ve started sorting through our photos and putting them into more of a system than one big bucket.
Still open to do’s:
- Finish the organizing
- Finish sorting into family photos and “good” photos
- Start grading the “good” photos and distill what lessons there might lurk for future photos
- Finish scanning the pre-digital photos. Both ours and the photos I inherited from my parents
local history, cycling and photography
The library membership was achieved, first books lended and almost finished. The books I took out look at Colognes early medieval and medieval history. I’ve also looked through a lot of online sources and am compiling a list of goods that were traded in Cologne.
This compilation has already given me some future cycling destinations, so the basic idea seems to work.
I also had some ideas on visualising the flow of goods and have recruited the daughter to help draw / map this.
other stuff
My plans for retirement also included
- Learning the ukulele (pending)
- Start archery (pending)
- Start Tai Chi (pending)
- Languages (pending)
- Volunteering (pending)
But, other, useful stuff got done
We renovated the kids rooms and now we each have our own room to do stuff in without regard to the other. Which will be helpful, as, see above, I’m still feeling a bit like vacationing. I’ve also cooked a quite a few new dishes, some of which will go into rotation