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the Xtreme dog walking
team reflected in a mirrored window on Lamar....boy that black dog disappears....
you can just see
the poodle's pink tongue if you look hard enough
"The time
you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
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the perfect life of indolence
A day during which I give in to
every impulse to be a lazy, yet active retiree.
This morning I
had the perfect dog walk. Hills that made me feel strong. A sit down
with talking and coffee. More walking, weaving in and out. It was
hot but with a breeze, feeling good.
Then I rode the
exercise bike and banked a good sweat. Then I had a relaxing shower,
a sit in the sun, some laps in the pool. Read my book. Had poolside
food. More swimming. More reading.
Dried off and put
on shorts and had a coke while watching some good tennis.
Wrote and surfed
as I felt like it.
Had a good meal,
with some fun friends.
I did exactly what
I wanted, gave myself a vacation from fretting about duty and should
do, could do, ought to do.
It was what retirement
was supposed to be like. It was lovely. Maybe I'll do it again tomorrow.
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TYPING
Dreamed it.
Did it.
Wasn't it supposed to disappoint.
Well, it didn't.
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Food Diary.
coffee
1pm Cobb Salad with bacon, chicken,
avocado, dressing, tortilla strips, tomato.
3pm Large Coke.
7pm Margarita, appetizers with salpicon
and napolitas, rotisserie chicken, spinach salad, another Margarita, coffee,
some cookies, taste of sorbet, shot of Scotch.
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Time flies....
Get up about before eight.
Walk with SuRu in Clarksville...get
home around 11am.
Go to club. Finish in gym about
noon. Shower. Change to bathing suit, camp by pool until 3pm. Dry off
and change and watch tennis, reading until nearly four.
4-6 Download pictures, write e-mail,
do exactly what I please on the computers.
6 shower and get ready for the evening
out.
7-11 visit with friends in restaurant
and here
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Reading.
Robert Massie's Peter the Great
on the bike, by the pool, in between tennis games I'm watching. Massie
takes the time to give you the history of warfare, the history of the
other monarchs. That's why the book is so long.
Still reading Journey Through
Genius.
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There is always
something else to do.
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Exercise
dog walk...about three miles including
some hills
53 minutes on recumbent bike
about 15 very slow laps in
the pool (I don't actually know how to swim but I can move in a
desired direction and, in spite of my small weight loss I'm very, very
buoyant.)
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Felt great
all day. Strong, energized.
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