Update from the creek

Our trip is going well although we haven't made lots of progress on
the bathroom but we will get it done. It turned cold here with a 30
mph gusty wind so outdoor work was much slower.

As we celebrate Christmas tomorrow remember that the reason for the
season is not the gifts and food but a saviour who came to earth as a
human baby and lived to be crucified for your sins and mine.

More later, Merry Christmas.

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Christmas Break

We leave in the morning for Christmas break. We will travel about 340 miles southeast to Caney Creek on the coast of Texas and spend some time at our house there. We plan to redo one of the bathrooms so it connects to the new sewer system and has all new fixtures, a new floor amd fresh paint. The house was originally built after hurricane Carla swept the old one away. It was home to my Mom and Dad from 1972 until 2002. Almost everything in it needs repair and we are working on one or two things at a time. I may not post much while we are gone but I will when we come back, so stay tuned.

Merry Christmas

One of the great things about working at a university is getting a lot
of time off. We are now officially on break for 2 weeks. Merry
Christmas to all.

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Slowin' down

Retirement is about to happen and while it is a bit scary, I am excited about it. For the last 10 and a half years I have been Network Administrator at a small christian university in central Texas. After a total of nearly 45 years in the technology business I am ready to slow down, thus the name of the blog. This blog will be a collection of my thoughts, actions and reactions to retirement. For a good while I have had a web site to document work on our vacation house and other things I do and I will make an effort to continue that information here. The web site will go away. Tomorrow we go on Christmas break for 2 weeks and then I will return for the month of January. My official retirement date is January 31 and time is flying by.

Most of the posts will be about the Caney Creek house or recumbent tricycles which I like to build and ride, but some will be on more serious matters so tag along and we will see where this takes us. We will spend the next 2 weeks or most of it, at the aforementioned Caney Creek house on the Texas coast. It is a 7 year (so far) project to restore my parents home near Sargent, Texas.

Well that is enough for a first post. I'll do more later .