Saturday September 4th

Well, the heat here in Dallas has finally broken and we have returned to more normal temperatures for this time of year. 

The last few weeks have been busy.  Pam has returned to work and the school year is underway.  I have managed to close out my Real Estate business.  Tying up loose ends took a little more effort  than I expected and reworking my phone back to a normal phone (or what I consider normal phone) turned out to be a lot harder than I expected.  After many hours on the phone and in the AT&T store though I did get it done.

I am also back down to one email.  I you have anything  beside the Verizon.net email it will no longer reach me.  It has been a real treat to stop receiving the 50-100 emails per day I was getting.  Not to mention dropping the email off my phone has been great.   I know I spent a lot of years teaching people and schools about technology.  However; I am not sure with what I seeing around me these days that it is necessarily a good thing.  So many people have a zombie like look on their face as they walk around with their smart phones, ipods, ipads, etc.  Seems like they are forgetting how to talk to an actual person.  Pam and I go out to eat and see families sit down and every member pulls out some electronic gadget and proceeds to entertain themselves.  I seems we are losing the ability to appreciate silence.  I still freak out the car salesman when they want to go on about the sound systems in the cars and I look at them and say I wouldn't even have a radio in the car if it didn't come with it.  I seldom turn it on.  They look at me like some sort of alien.  Pam usually has to assure them I am not pulling their leg.

I will step off my soap box now.  I was approached shortly before the end of August to do some temp work in September, October and November.  I start training on Sept 3.  This will be interesting as I have not been tied to a desk in quite a few years.  This is largely handling paperwork on foreclosed properties.  We will see is this is something I do more of in the future.  While I have retired I have always intended to have some thing to do at least part time.  One of the things Pam and I had discussed not only for me but for her when she retires is to temp 4-6 months out of the year to have play money to travel or pursue hobbies.  We will see how this works as to if the future will be part time jobs or short term full time temp work.

The nice thing is to have the luxury of figuring it out.  Pam and I hope all are doing well and until the next post, God Bless.

Bruce