Notes - work-a-day / funky guilt /

         Almost noon. Blue sky and sun have returned after yesterday’s rains but are enclosed with much cooler air. You swept the deck of tree droppings, changed the furnace filter and are working on the front water hose, as Carol wanted the fixtures tightened. You did your forty minutes of exercises and followed it with a nap holding Jadah on your lap. Carol has her schedules taken care of and after talking to Marsha you have a luncheon date in the middle of June with her and David – maybe a picnic at a Delaware park (as her mother and sister live in Delaware).

         1221 hours. Carol checked with Kim and she’s available that day. So maybe she will meet Dave and Marsha once again. She was two or three the last time she saw them – at Aunt Floy’s funeral; their kids were also there.

         You ran some errands and brought home a Potbelly sandwich to split while Carol was doing her walk at the community center. You have more errands in a bit. Post. - Amorella

         1456 hours. I need to work on Dead 9; I’m tired of seeing it setting here in doc icon.

         It’s good to clean up your desktop now and then. – Amorella

         Cool wind blowing briskly in southwest Ohio this late sunny afternoon. After your errands a stop at the Graeter’s just off Mason-Montgomery Road appeared mandatory so you both took advantage of it before stopping at Kroger’s and then home. – Amorella

         1727 hours. A great advantage of being retired is that we can normally do things we want to do when we want to do them. And, if we don’t want to do anything then we don’t.

         You used to feel guilty not working in the summers when you were otherwise not under an Ohio public teaching contract. Summers were always off but you received no pay during that time. In fact you had no paid vacations as such. Thanksgiving, Spring and Winter breaks were not under contract. It is still this way as far as you know. – Amorella

         1735 hours. Carol and I always considered our summer pay was time off. I don’t ever remember anyone complaining about not getting paid in the summer. Eventually you were allowed to change your payment structure and get less each month you worked so it could be given to you at least as a monthly salary in the summer months. Even then some didn’t do it because the school system to take advantage and make some interest by keeping a portion of your original salary longer. Some people are satisfied, some complain no matter what. I did feel guilty in those days because people would see as someone who could not or world not look for work. I knew better than to feel guilty but I did anyway. I was taught that people are always guilty of something. All a person has to do is sit down and think of what sheorhe has not done that sheorhe he should have completed by now. That’s step one of many depending on how much ready memory sheorhe has at herorhis disposal. Shoot, and I’m not even thinking about sins and their circumstances.

         Time to stop, boy or you’ll put yourself into a funk. No more such thoughts tonight. Post. – Amorella