Frustrations

Messed up my helicopter yesterday and I now have to start from scratch AGAIN! At the moment I'm ready to drop this hobby and move on. The fine motor skills that it requires are not my best suit. I could spend more money (already have about $1500 into it) and upgrade to frames that are basically indestructible but right now I feel I'm wasting money so I'm putting everything on hold. I find that if I walk away from stuff I can come back later and start afresh. I know that's not some new technique and many people do it but it's a relatively new approach for me. One nice things about guns is that they are big and solid and not easily broken. Might put some copter things on eBay and try to recoup some of my expenses. All the stuff I currently have on eBay (books) is going nowhere and I expect I'll pitch it all by this time next week. Did some work in the yard today, which was nice. The place is looking pretty good for this time of year. Bought some new shoes for running. My old ones were pretty worn and might have been contributing to my current knee woes. Possible trip to the ortho guy looms. My 9mm was in the shop for a week for some adjustments but it's now back. I'll probably bang off a 100, 115 grain, projectiles this afternoon. I'm going to have to look at the Feb-March time period for next year and see what other activities I can do when weather is a factor, Florida?

eBay

One of the activities I thought I'd do when I retired was to become more active on eBay. I had bought and sold a few things in the past but never really put much time into it. Recently I've bid on a few items and have a few up there for auction. I lost a bid last night in the final 5 seconds! The truth is I don't find that exciting. I was watching the screen that tells how much time is left and if you are the highest bidder. I kept hitting the "refresh" button but a "sniper" beat me to it. I guess there is excitement in this but all I want is to buy something for as cheaply as I can, pay no sales tax, and get out of there. So what I'm really saying is that my eBay plan for retirement will probably not be what I thought it might be. I'm not really into all the picture taking and description writing. I have a small antique ceramic fawn I got from my mom. Looks to be worth $20-$30 but I'll need to take several photos which means setting up a camera on my computer. I guess if I do set things up I'll give it another go. Weather improving so I'll do some things in the yard that can be done standing (ground still wet). Still resting my knee so not running (I do miss it). Happy Spring!

All reved up!

And no place to go! The Friday/Saturday storm here put a real damper on things. I'm all ready for outside activities and, in fact, had started working in the yard. Not much point to that now. Can't work outside at either place. It's not that I don't have stuff I can be doing, I've plenty but I don't want to do them now. Bit of cabin fever I guess. It does get it me to thinking, again, about the years of retirement and what shape they will take. BTW notice how I began with the word, "And"? Seems it is ok to do that now but not when I was being taught the grammer by the good sisters. Been reading the Bible lately. No great religious awakening, just curiosity. I'm working through the psalms in the Catholic version of the bible. Finished a book that was set in the town where our other house is located. Always interesting to read books that have familiar places in them, makes then sort of come alive. I'd give the actual story a C+. Cancelled my shooting competition for today because I was not able to get the extra magazines I'd have needed. I did not want to pay $80 for them. I don't want to own four magazines. I was expecting to get some from a friend but that didn't happen, at least not yet. Next competitions are outside, maybe I'll sign up for the April one. Got the most recent valuation on our other house. The town does it every two years. House value remained about the same but the value of the land went up $40K! Guess taxes will follow soon. Started doing a little eBay too. I'm selling some books and ceramic animals I got from my mother. Well guess I'll go do some stuff.