Well here's a brand new week for me after realizing this morning that my heart was still beating. I do complain a lot, but the fact that I'm still up and around, pretty damn healthy and have a mind that still is able to recognize the faults of our society is gratifying. I'm retired as most of you know and for many reasons am not that excited about it. The biggest problem with retirement is the fact that I must be old and getting older rather rapidly. Another problem is that I've been a very busy person for a whole bunch of years and now I actually have to find stuff to keep me active and make my brain function. This Blog Site at least forces me to use a little grey matter.
Thought it was a good idea, but one of my dear friends told me that I should get a life. Well, actually retirement makes that possible. Time is my own and I can do anything with it. These past few months my wife and I, along with another couple have been visiting all the Connecticut Wineries for wine tasting, picnics, wine purchases etc. We've done fifteen of them and needless to say my wine cooler is loaded and my wallet substantially lighter. All these visits are with the hope of winning one of three trips sponsored by the Connecticut Wine Trail. We have them stamp a passport book and then they enter it in a drawing.
On our last trip we visited two wineries in what they call the quiet corner of Connecticut, and quiet it was, empty roads, serene villages, beautifull scenery. Then all hell broke loose when we tried to get home through Hartford. I cannot believe the traffic, unreal. That's a time when I'm happy to be retired without the need to travel our "great highways". Somewhere along the line the engineers fell asleep. No one should have to endure this torture day after day. Oh for the days when people car pooled and took turns driving to work. I guess the thought of having to actually speak to someone (not on a cell phone) and having to go a little out of the way to pick them up is a thing of the past. But just think. If everyone just rode with one person, half the cars would be gone and people would actually be using that expensive and waste of lanes project called the HOV. Well, so long, I'm off in pursuit of another bitch.
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