Weekend Wrapup

[tiger roach]

I got a nasty burn on the heel of my hand from a tragic pot-holder accident while cooking Easter dinner. Big ol' blister.

Other than that, had an excellent round of golf, heard lots of music, went to Easter Church with Mom, and drank too much whiskey.

 

[nuke_diver]

Three day weekends don't have the same impact when you are unemployed.
Thursday, an easy 19 mile spin.
Friday, 46 miles with some visiting racing buddies.
Saturday, legs are toast, but managed 47 miles.
Sunday, an easy 25 miles. No Easter duties since the kids are all out of the house.

Think of it as retirement training It's the same for me but I'm intentionally unemployed.

Friday - Rode to the gym and then back before the rains in some rather nasty south winds.
Saturday - Cut out a bunch of dead branches on trees in the am...always a fun time with the sawsall even if I did lose a bunch of skin on my finger to a branch that went up first before it went down. Wife decided we should have Easter dinner on Sat since I was going to the hockey game Sunday. Not sure why, we don't celebrate easter Just an excuse to make a roast leg of lamb???
Sunday - Went out for a ride in the mountains behind me hoping to beat the rain. Got the top and it started raining so I hightailed it home rather than risk getting soaked and crashing on wet roads. Naturally it stopped 10 min after I got home so I could have finished the ride after all. Went to Sharks playoff game. They sucked but I did get a nice Tshirt.
Monday - a flat on the way to the gym. Came home and cut the back grass before the next batch of showers hit

@Mark Wein Great looking dogs Mark!

 

[jelloman]

I been doing that over the last few months. Honestly it's always a process but I'm pretty much down to getting rid of a few things in the "laundry room/ storage room" for me it usually takes a number of times...first stuff goes in the "uh, maybe later not quite yet" compartment of my brain and other stuff immediately goes but eventually it'll go.
Once you get started it gets easier though and once it's done it is soon much nicer......cluttered life = cluttered mind.

The downsizing for me started last year when I put the house on the market, but I had issues parting with my woodworking tools and supplies so they came with me and spent the winter in the shed...I knew almost immediately that I shouldn't have moved most of it but couldn't deal with it until the weather warmed up enough to spend the time needed...Saturday was step 1, setting up various tool boxes to reduce or eliminate redundancies...next I need to go through the supplies and decide what I really need to hold on to...once I've got it down to the minimum I'm going to list it all on Craigslist and get rid of it...

The idea for me is to downsize to the point where I will be able to get up and go at a moment's notice...I've had moments in the past where I felt the time was right to make a big change but couldn't act on it due to the depth of the roots I had planted...selling the house and moving put the amount of clutter around me in stark contrast to where my head was at...

I don't have any intent to make a big change right now, but my intent is to make big changes possible...