Retirement looms..on account of we can’t do Stuff on the days we’d like to. I’m tied to my work..the only time off I have in a reasonable block, is the first week of school holidays..during the year at least. Thursday and friday nights are fraught with..hurry up, or just plain..not do..stuff thats on, on these nights. Particularly if we have to go into the big smoke..train is easiest, but takes a while. Early performances are the problem eh. And I finish at 6pm. A 7.30 pm start is getting a tad close for comfort, after factoring in an hour trip into town.
Sigh.
The perks of being casual..you can swap shifts with..almost impunity..permissions are required of course, but a mere formality usually.
Permanant positions, as well as attracting a lesser salary per hour, also comes with the inability to swap shifts willy nilly. There are ways and means, as there always are, but its not straight forward any more.
The things you find out!

Winter has struck. For the average taswegian, its rug up, an extra layer here and there, and shut windows to keep the cold/freezing night air out. Flash up the log fire, that sort of thing. For us lot up here, temperatures drop from a barmy 25 odd, down to a freezing 15 or so…we reckon double figures is ok. Single digits are a real worry! Aaaand, thats what we’ve been having lately. Eh. All due to a mass of cold air coming up from antarctica..so we’re not alone in feeling hard done by. Our household has even gone to the extreme measure of having the air con/heat pump come on early to heat the kitchen/lounge room up, so its not too bad. Only trouble with that is, you can’t jump over the power bill, but a judicious watch on the charges levied by different companies will pay dividends…when the blighters get the meter read, at least.

Early July..update as it were.

Retirement..the Billisaurus refound an ould program..and I mean so old, that Norton didnt like it on principal..even though there were no nasties embedded ..you’d have thought that using it here and there in the..90s and 2000s would have thrown up any hacks then. Same program now sigh.
Anyway, its a Tarot program. Tarot98 is my preferred name..but appears to be a suzie’s tarot version….I previously have found it to be rather draconian, curt, and very much to the point. Ouches all the way through..just the thing to bring a fellah to his knees here and there. Works a treat if I had forgotten what the blasted thing is like. However, I threw one on retirement. Wow, although I should’nt’ve been all that surprised I guess. Lots of energy, lots of negatives, etc etc. Part of the curt stuff is..a card has different meanings, doesn’t it, and they are all displayed. You get to pick…a negative meaning is a bit hard to get away from once its there, I find. Anyway, at the time, there wasn’t the ..focus on it that there was a month or so later, ie, now. At the time, it seemed totally unwarranted, I mean..I mean there wasnt anything floating around, no conversations had been had, nothing to..get the juices flowing. Later on..yeah. Not back then though. Hmmm. Things came to a head. Discussions were had. Scenarios were aired, sometimes a tad forcefully.
Upshot..working is a passtime, not an essential part of my life, on account of its how I have structured my life up till now. Must admit that its nice to have more money coming in than going out..but I faced this 5 or 6 years ago, didnt I.
So, work wasnt the all and bee all of life for me. Other things to do. and, as you will have seen, it interferes with leasure activities on thursday and friday nights.
Not That big a deal to say ta-ta to it all. Tentative xmas 2018 date has been mooted, but not a done deal yet.
After the shouting and yelling was over and done with, I tried tarot98 again. Wow, but not as before..benign. Stuff sorted I guess. Has to be a first time for everything, eh. There are other tarots, and I do have one or three. If I want benign, then the Osho-Zen pack is the way to go…
Successful trip to Bookfest..only a few cds, but lots of videos this time. and the Billisaurus took his computer screen glasses, so he could read the labels in comfort this time..

She-cave, redistributed Errols,  the new Errol frame, latest crop of dvds on the day-nite couch.