Unexpected Weekend Off

County Office is still down - I know this because I'm trying to login remotely to email and can't connect at all.  Bummer.  I'm already strategizing about how to make up the time I missed.  I can do 10-12 hours days this week and make up the 16 hours I missed this weekend...but that sounds awful.  Still, if I remind myself the trade-off for that will be a couple days in Reno, I can consider it. 

Hopefully the system will be up tomorrow and I can put in a nice long day to kick off the week. 

J. and I just spent time in the garage - I've been working in the study and we've added quite a few boxes to the stack to go up to storage when we go.  J. and his friend R. are planning to rent a truck and trek up there as well - which will help clean out the garage.  Once there's more available space in the garage, we can start to move small furniture items down - trying to create more space in the rooms upstairs.  Twice the motivation to do that - gets the space better ready for painters and also opens up the rooms when we start selling the house.

I love when I grab a garbage bag and find things to just toss - of which there are plenty.  A bag of trash out, two boxes of stuff emptied, a ton of stuff in the recycle bin.  When I'm officially retired and home everyday, we'll be making progress daily - and the daily effort will make the move easier. 

J. spent yesterday pondering our financial future - he went to a seminar put on by our planner this past week so he's been number crunching constantly.  I asked him 'what are you doing?  'cuz we've run those numbers a gillion times.  The seminar suggested planning on a lower rate of return for a while (guess they are nervous about the market and our lunatic President) and J. wanted to be sure there would be enough for me to live on until I'm 100 years old.  There will be.

And this morning, I reminded him if I live that long, our house will be paid for and valuable - so that's additional funds available in a pinch.  And in an abundance of caution, we still have life insurance - enough so that if one of us dies, the other can make a significant buy down of the mortgage and have a much lower payment - which will makeup for the loss of social security. 

We know we're fine.  But spending time reconfirming that fact (over and over) is what retired people do.  It's very nerve-wracking. 

H. went to Modesto last night - attended a meeting and had tacos after with all his rehab friends.  Nice way for him to cap off a low key day -