real time -- traveling to Cebu Philippines on the Ocean Jet 🔥

The world is a big place ... and on the side of it that I am on it's Nov 27th — Thanksgiving Day! Hope you have time to spend today (tomorrow) with family or friends ... even if it's only a phone call (as I will have with the kids and grandkids). Taking time to give thanks ... means there is something to be grateful for. Think about that.

So I just signed up for some new courses in Davinci Resolve and as part of those lessons, you get lifetime access to their 'Community'. Well guess what they run this community in? Skool. I thought that was a cool cross over. So if you are interested, it's one of the better Davinci Resolve teachers out there, Casey Faris. Over at GroundControl. They of course have a Black Friday sale up and active right now in case you need some training courses. I do recommend Casey's tutorials. But anyway, just something interesting that just happened.

Wondering what was the straw that broke the camel’s back? What was it that made you think “today is the day i give my retirement notice?” Even if you are still working in retirement…

This is probably not the post you think it is. I’m curious who identifies with it. I spent last week moving, downsizing from a 2br/2ba to a 1br/1ba apt. I didn’t waste any time sifting through things, just gathering stuff up and moving it, although I did take some to storage the first day. I finished up late Friday night and ended up just chilling out on Saturday, I was just so sore and exhausted. Sitting there sipping coffee, I realized that my new place looks like a hoarder lives there. I’ve got all this stuff that I tend to collect and hold on to thinking that I might use it again someday. “It’s for the future!” I tell myself. In fact, my storage locker is full of stuff “for the future “. It was in that moment I realized THAT FUTURE IS HERE, RIGHT NOW! And guess what? I don’t need ANY of this stuff today! I’ve spent 40+ years as a programmer and that’s over. I’m done with it. So I have no need for the dozens of software books. All of the things I’ve collected up thinking “this is something interesting that I’ll dig into someday” is never going to be used. I have no kids or grandkids who are going to want to dig through it, and my siblings are more likely to just have someone haul it all away when I die. It has lost its usefulness to me or anybody I know. My intent here isn’t to sound sad or depressed or even unhappy; rather, this realization is actually quite freeing! I mean, there’s a “future” I’ve been planning for, and now that I’m here, things don’t look anything like what I expected. I’ll be 70 next year and I’m not looking for another career or long term project, but something that inspires me and lets me spend the rest of my time here coasting downhill and doing some things that benefit others based on things I’ve learned and experienced in my life, without sounding preachy or like an old fart spewing out advice like a bad case of diarrhea. This is something NEW, something I never saw coming or planned for. (Actually, have collected some stuff that applies here.)