The Road to Millsburg

Today is April 29 2013.
This is my first attempt to create a blog.
Why? .... I have just started down a new road and will have more time doing things that are fun, stimulating to the mind and body.

Last Friday I left the corporate world behind after 34 years of going to work every day (add a few years of part time jobs while in high school)!

I got up this morning knowing that I would not be driving to work, that my day would not involve sorting out other peoples wants and rants.  This felt pretty good. Good enough that I decided to start recording my day (and days to follow perhaps) into a blog.

I went on You Tube and watched a couple of random videos about Blogger. Blogger is a Google app that is bundled with Google+.

I received an email from LKD about some mustache guy that retired at 30. He spends his time being frugal and writing about it. So after a few hours of intermittent attempts to set up a blogspot on Google I am ready to upload my first post ever. And the mustache guy is the first blog site (hmmm..... is blog site 2 words or 1) that I added to follow. The mustache man has a blogsite at http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/

The Blogger site is pretty easy to use and the YouTube videos are plenty good to get anyone started!

Inspired, this blog will be about what retirement feels like. An opportunity to create some posts to share about things we enjoy (me and LKD). Looking forward to when LKD retires in about a year!

At 10:16 am I thought about what may be happening at "work".  I checked my iPad where my 'work' email is still alive! I am sure it will shut down very soon! Just a couple of random emails, some urgent messages from payroll department about approving time card task was not yet completed [Deleted].

Pretty good first day. I was up early (as usual) and had started one of many projects around the house. Staining the kitchen window trim. It occurred to me that after 15 years since we built our house I have many projects that will be mostly fun and satisfying.
I will figure out how to make a video of some of my projects using my iPad.
Good blog stuff coming!!

The window project is progressing and the stain should be dry. Just need to clean the glass and install the finish hardware and screens. Looks great so far.