Getting back to “work”

Okay so my last post about being adrift got some serious attention from friends and family. As I see it, my situation is not unlike riding a bike tour. If I think about the entire retirement thing, I become overwhelmed. The solution is to start doing things. It doesn’t matter what they are just get at it.

So here’s a list of things I did today:

• Woke up before sunrise and rode Big Nellie to DC 
• Hang out with the gang at Friday Coffee Club
• Ride home. Stop in the park to read the sports section of the paper and meditate
• Eat lunch
• Read the rest of the paper and my book on the deck
• Order Neil and Liam Finn CD (released today) and some old Brandi Carlile CDs.
• Order new bike light from REI
• Watch Nats game on TV

So for the next several weeks I have a menu of stuff to choose from

• Listen to Hamilton twice
• See Hamilton in DC
• Brunch with my grad school peeps
• See some Nats games live (with my daughter!) and on TV
• Do the 50 States Ride
• Do the Boundary Stones Ride
• Waterproof the underside of my shed (the floor gets wet when it rains)
• See Juliet, Naked; a new movie based on the Nick Hornby novel
• Re-read the novel
• Ride the Whites Ferry loop (100-miles)
• Ride the High Bridge Trail
• Go to Friday Coffee Club and #bikedc happy hours
• Pick up and drop off family members at IAD and BWI
• Get vital records from New York State for my application to be placed on the Registry of Foreign Births. (This is the first step of my Irish passport application process.)
• Plan next bike tour. Yeah, I’m already starting to get the itch again.
• Re-establish non-bike activities including weight lifting, meditating, hiking and maybe even skating and swimming

That ought to keep me plenty busy. Or kill me.