#1479, Thursday, July 30: Six months and counting down!

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Post 1479, Day 211 of 2015
- 1,672 days since I started this blog -

Daily Comment

Yesterday was so busy, I didn't realize until today that it marked exactly six months from my retirement.

Just numbers, future, meaningless. Except it is surprising, even amazing to me.

Even the idea that I have lived long enough to write that retirement is close has me shaking my head at the wonderment of it!

My inability to predict the future at any time in my life has been fairly well documented. Among the things I was unable to predict are surviving past thirty(then forty, fifty and sixty). Just never saw that coming.

For the last twenty years or so, I have been investigating a retirement at some non-USA location. But I didn't predict or expect that my life in Syracuse would be so satisfying that I would want to stay around after the time when I would retire.

I am open to whatever happens between now and then, and after, too. With my historic inability to see things before they actually happen (sometimes not then, either), I don't think I will wake up to a different life on January 30th. 

I think the biggest change will be not setting my alarm any more. Maybe there will be some more activities like those I've been doing in my non-employee (recreational) time, maybe some new ones. Recreational time will be all the time.

 We'll all find out together.

(Cliche alert!) Life is full of surprises. My ticket to happiness seems to lie in relaxing my attempts to control a future I have shown I cannot foresee, let alone control.

So far, so good.

Food and Diet Section

Today's Weight:                   208.6 lbs

Previous Weight (7/29):           209.0 lbs

Day Net Loss/Gain:                - 0.4 lbs

Diet Comment

A mild day yesterday, a mild loss today.

Food Log

Breakfast
A Quest bar.

Lunch
At Core:

Chicken Cobb salad (shredded kale and romaine, grilled chicken, avocado, bacon, hard-cooked egg, broccoli, mushrooms and bleu cheese dressing).

Snack
A medium soft serve chocolate-vanilla twist in a cup.

Dinner
Two Quest bars and some nachos with cheese.

Snack
A Quest bar.

Liquid Intake
   Espressos: 3;  Coffee: 24 oz.; Water: 64+ oz.; a shot of Jameson's Special Reserve.

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