Benefits (Possibly) of Retirement

Lists.  Usually, when I am trying to figure something out, I will make lists.  These lists can of a variety of sorts.  So, even though I am admitting right from the get-go that this is NOT by any stretch of the imagination, I thought I would try to list quickly some of the things I currently BELIEVE will be benefits of retiring sometime in the future:

• More sleep
• Not needing to interact with the two thorns in my side at work (although, to be honest, I have evolved, I believe.... I hardly ever think about them any more and mostly just ignore them)
• Less computer time
• Less forced structure
• The ability to MOVE where it is warm....  or better, perhaps, the ability to move South just for the Winter (the term used...  is that my wife and I would become "snowbirds") and come back North in the Spring/Summer/Fall.
•  More time for hobbies (music, fiction writing, instrument repair, etc.)

It feels odd that I feel rather stymied to add more at the moment.  I think perhaps I will next try to list my Fears of Retirement.... which sadly seems likely to be a longer list.  I do not know if I will write that tomorrow, or next week, though.  

I am hoping to get the new computer system at home set up this weekend.  Hopefully things will go smoothly.  But, then again, it is a new COMPUTER system...... the likelihood of it going "smoothly" is probably just a pipe dream.

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