What Did You Learn Without School, Today?

Today was a perfect example of a do-nothing day. It was dark all day although not a lot of rain fell. We were able to stay around home with no stress or worries. It was Jay's birthday, so we had milk-rice for breakfast and he made and received calls from relatives. The house smells good for the day's cooking. When one sees fried papadum, there's no doubt something auspicious is afoot.


I spent more quality hours learning about Linux by playing with Lubuntu on my netbook. It could be the first blush of something new, but I'm very pleased with new-found usefulness of that device. It now handles media files with much more aplomb in the simplier OS. I continue to find learning technology through hands-on experience tremendously gratifying.

I have an unlimited and ever-growing list of things I want to learn and experience. I have much more time to pursue them now that I've no work obligations. This will have to be my answer to those folks who wondered what I was going to do when I stopped working. We were not off on any wild adventures today. We didn't have a list of fun or exciting things to do. I ran just one errand by driving up town at around noon. Otherwise, we spent time in each other's company around our apartment. Yet, this is exactly how I hoped I'd feel by grabbing an early retirement. The day was completely ours and we were able to choose do whatever we wanted to do.

I feel amazingly lucky to be living in my present situation.