{"id":15560,"date":"2019-12-17T11:45:45","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T16:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=15560"},"modified":"2019-12-17T11:47:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T16:47:24","slug":"back-to-my-booted-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=15560","title":{"rendered":"Back To My Booted Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Braveprints-254x300.jpg?resize=254%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3835\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Braveprints.jpg?resize=254%2C300&amp;ssl=1 254w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Braveprints.jpg?resize=300%2C355&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Braveprints.jpg?resize=127%2C150&amp;ssl=1 127w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Braveprints.jpg?w=677&amp;ssl=1 677w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/>After the &#8220;high&#8221; of last week&#8217;s travel to the Caribbean and the delightful surprise of recognition bestowed on me, I returned last Friday night to &#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8230;cold, dreary, rainy, foggy, and generally clammy Maryland. Oh well&#8230; it could be worse. While we had &#8220;conversational snow&#8221;, it didn&#8217;t do much but cause some schools to close or be delayed.<\/p>\n<p>As for me, I have begun the slide to retirement. I am done with work. No more commute to the office. No more meetings (YIPPIE!). Less and less email, just closing up a few loose ends.  <\/p>\n<p>I am now (mostly) on leave until 4 January 2020 (the end of the last pay period).  <\/p>\n<p>So what am I doing with all this &#8220;free time?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I really don&#8217;t know yet.  The days seem to fly by.  Lots of catch-up things to do here in my home office.<\/p>\n<p>I will (eventually) be updating my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bootedman.com\/\">my website<\/a> and backups for it.  I also promised the Spouse to get more involved in housecleaning.  Oh joy!<\/p>\n<p>Spouse and I have also been doing more deliberate exercise by &#8220;mall walking.&#8221;  Hiking boots help and are comfortable for that. Three miles today&#8230; building up to more.<\/p>\n<p>Life is short: keep booted and take time to find a &#8220;new routine.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the &#8220;high&#8221; of last week&#8217;s travel to the Caribbean and the delightful surprise of recognition bestowed on me, I returned last Friday night to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}