Our next two Shabbatot coincide with American legal holidays, Christmas and New Year's Day. They are also transition points for me personally. While working, I could expect Xmas to be an active day or weekend, sometimes a long one, taking call for patients who did everything they could to avoid the hospital. As a result, I always had New Years off, taking it as minor revelry at home with some champagne as I watched the Big Steel Ball knock down New York. More importantly, it was the first day of my new semi-annual initiatives, which always began a little behind the 8-ball needing some catchup sleep. So it goes this transition too, though in retirement, Christmas is a day off. An uncertain shul day, but I have a reason to go this year, even if a personal imposition. I set my twelve initiatives on good paper in indelible ink with colored gel pens. I transition the whiteboard after Christmas and begin doing them on New Years. Some are maintained, some replaced. While I've focused on weight and waist measurements, this half-year I will be shifting to treadmill performance, the anthropomorphic measurements having remained static for over a year. I want to be more consistent with expressing myself, usually via writing. Those projects continue though with a better performance focus and mileposts. My day trips continue, again with more focus, allowing for an overnight adventure. My Family Room being a lost cause, I shifted the home efforts to My Space and my gardens. I've derived benefit from logging expenses, both from the data generated and from my reliability in doing this. It continues. I need to do better as a husband, I think, whether my wife agrees or not. That becomes a focus for the next six months. I'm satisfied with what I've chosen to pursue. After months of ennui, I feel more of an inner drive to see what among these I can accomplish and how much satisfaction or frustration each effort generates.
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