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Well, it has been a while, but this blog reached a major milestone in having this post be the 3,000th post on this blog. I realize this year I have been posting much less frequently. Regardless, the blog lives on since it began in January, 2008, more than 12 years ago.<\/p>\n
I did a little research from the all-knowing Dr. Google, and learned that for “hobby blogs” like this one…
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\n… last an average of a year or two. From what I can find, only about 1% of the millions of blogs on the internet last ten years or more. Great — I am among the 1%! (giggle)<\/p>\n
That is a “one-percenter” claim I am comfortable in being.<\/p>\n
Blog post 2,900 was on May 30, 2019<\/a>… just about a year ago. During the 12 months between post 2,900 and post 3,000, MUCH has happened in my life. Here are the highlights:<\/p>\n So, dear readers, let’s hope that maybe I will eventually reach blog post 3,100 about a year from now when the Psychopath in the White House is dispensed to Sibera after our nation wakes up and votes for positive, productive, change.<\/p>\n Life is short: what a ride to get to 3,000 blog posts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, it has been a while, but this blog reached a major milestone in having this post be the 3,000th post on this blog. I realize this year I have been posting much less frequently. Regardless, the blog lives on … Continue reading \n
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Honeymoon: Spouse was “done” with being sick for so long, and was willing to travel again. We had a wonderful week in Toronto, Canada<\/a> in early July, 2019. We even were upgraded to the honeymoon suite in the hotel in which we stayed. We rode trams, went to a ballgame, enjoyed fireworks, and began exploration on a future summer retreat.<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Alaskaair2019blog-300x172.jpg?resize=300%2C172\")
Last work trips: when the Boss realized that I would be leaving, he asked me to travel for work assignments and reports quite a bit from September to December. I went to Northern California, Washington, Alaska, U.S. Virgin Islands<\/a>, and Puerto Rico in eight weeks’ time. This gave me the opportunity to say goodbye to colleagues with whom I had become very close as friends.<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/BHDAnascoBeach20191212-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225\")
While in Puerto Rico in December<\/a>, I was presented with an honorary citizenship by a representative of the Governor. I was truly touched. I love this island and its people who are so severely misunderstood but who have hearts of gold and are exceptionally resilient despite loads of hardship.<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Housesoldblog-300x218.jpg?resize=300%2C218\")
In January, I became a “pensioner” by applying for and beginning to receive a small pension from my first 12 years of employment from my first two jobs (that used the same employer-sponsored retirement system). Then pension is not much, but is something. I also sold an investment property — the proceeds of which kick-started my retirement by providing the savings I will live on until I reach the age to receive another larger pension from my longest employer.<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Postblog-300x181.jpg?resize=300%2C181\")
In February, Spouse and I spent 10 days in Puerto Rico<\/a> for our first of two post-retirement holiday vacations and winter home-hunting trips. I enjoyed seeing friends, dog paddling in the blue Caribbean Sea, and showing Spouse my favorite places on the western side of el Isla del Encanto<\/em> while we enjoyed our Valentine’s Day reprise (25 years ago, Spouse was also with me on Puerto Rico for Valentine’s Day.)<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GCPacific03-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225\")
Despite rising concern about the Covid-19 pandemic, we continued with plans to travel to Hawaii in March. It began with a nice but short visit on Oahu<\/a> to give a speech at a conference in Honolulu, then a week on the island of Kauai<\/a>, and a week on the Big Island of Hawai’i<\/a>. We mostly enjoyed it, though as things were shutting down, it was becoming somewhat frightening, and was when things got really weird. We caught the last flights home a day earlier than planned before travel to the mainland stopped.<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Skydive20200516blog-300x221.jpg?resize=300%2C221\")
I did ease into a few permissible activities, like riding my Harley and going skydiving (once).<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/RiotsMNMay2020-300x240.jpg?resize=300%2C240\")
Now, June 1, Blog Post 3,000 … home, home, home… where Spouse and I will stay until we can get an effective vaccine for Covid-19. Regrettably and deep sadness, we are watching our nation burn due to riots and reaction to a murder in Minneapolis of a black man by a white police officer. The officer kneeled on the black man’s neck for 8:46. Because the nutjob in the White House has no empathy, he cannot tamp down the anger or try to heal our nation. He is a true psychopath in every sense of the word. We’re doomed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n