I have resolutely ignored this blog for quite some time. It seems that the changes in my life have drawn me away from introspection here, as they've drawn me to introspection elsewhere.
It has been more than a year since I last worked regularly and I have been trying to balance the future such that I can retire on my birthday. Not necessarily quit looking for work, but perhaps learn to live on my two small pensions so that I don't have to work.
It would be nice to take seasonal work at a place like labour ready so that I could show up those weeks when I wanted to, and not those times when I don't. Perhaps that sounds a little Utopian.
So, just as a for instance, I will need about six hundred dollars over the next four months for the equipment that will get me on the road to Halifax this summer. That would be about a hundred hours of work, given that a portion of what I earn must be paid into my bankruptcy. In the same vein, our church is suffering some significant financial hardships, and if I put in ten hours a month specifically to help out there, I think I would feel pretty good about the work regardless of what it was.
Mind, all of this is just a bit of where my thoughts have been going these past few months. I suppose, more on that in subsequent postings.
