It's Been a Long Five Years
Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Wed, 30 Oct 2024 16:22:42 GMT
I haven't posted here since August of 2019, over five years ago.
In 2020, COVID happened. The toilet paper shortage caused me to get a bidet. I have never looked back. Now I have a heated bidet, plugged into the wall. Luxury. How anyone could touch their shit through a few layers of tissue paper, I no longer understand.
In November of 2020, my programming muse left. I could no longer do my work. So I retired. In April of 2021, I started collecting social security.
In February of 2021, I put all me belongings in a travel trailer, and drove away from Vermont for good. I landed at my son's house in Knoxville, Tennessee, where I learned to live in the trailer, before heading west, towing the trailer behind my Ford F-150 pickup truck.
I had great adventures, and landed in Santa Fe, New Mexico, for what was to be a two-month stay before heading north, to visit L. Neil Smith in Fort Collins, my high school buddies in Colorado Springs and Laramie, Wyoming, and Elias Alias in far northern Montana.
A bladder stone had a different idea. When I stopped being able to pee without a catheter, I drove back to Knoxville, and stayed with my son until the bladder stone was removed, and I was all better.
I bought a house, in the low-rent district, and many e-bikes. I found the one I like, and now ride it around Knoxville, daily.
Singing in the Knoxville Choral Society, the best chorus I've ever had the pleaseure of singing with. Playing my trombone occasionally. Smoking cannabis and CBD.
Have started work on Arbitrage.wtf, to make lots of money, risk-free, real quick. Watch that space.
