Retirement 101: How to do nothing all day

Day dawned gray and gloomy. It had rained overnight. With a bit of luck, the grass will be too wet to cut today.

That’s the only thing on my to-do list that’s time-sensitive, cutting the grass. When it gets too shaggy it bungs up the mower, so it’s best not to leave it too long.

But, if the grass is too wet, the grass is too wet. What can you do?

There are any number of things I could do, I suppose. The garage presents ample opportunities for busy work. I’m trying to figure out how to drag a 100% functional treadmill out to the road and put a “free” sign on it. Maybe I should put a “for sale” sign on instead. It was only ever lightly used and cost well over a thousand new.

These are the conundrums that occupy my day.

I deferred an immediate decision about which chore to tackle next, and drove into town to get a Globe and Mail instead. And to fill up the gas can for the mower, just in case.

How they get away with charging $4.20 for the Globe I don’t know. Seems like brazen exploitation of the few souls out there still addicted to turning pages over their morning coffee. As is often the case, I struggled to find my money’s worth in the reading.

Cathal Kelly had an interesting take on the NBA player’s strike over the last cop shooting of a black dude. What Kelly obviously can’t say from his pulpit of privilege, is that, well intentioned as this may have been, if these guys are going on strike every time there’s a case of police brutality, we might as well wave good-bye to pro sports now.

Other than that, not much for my $4.20.

I did manage to get my 5k in. Then I went on the internet, and you know how that goes.

At some point the Farm Manager needed to go to the farm store around the corner. The woman who runs the joint bakes the most awesome meat pies.

On my return I resumed my internet research. Apparently Trump just hit an all-time approval rating high. How messed up is that? 180,000 lost to the plague, economy in the tank, cities on fire, and Trump’s approval rating goes… up? How absolutely lame are the Democrats to let that happen?

I can get drawn into that stuff, and you always have to remind yourself that the entire 2020 election is just theatre. As such, it can be quite entertaining!

That’s how to do nothing all day.