Pluggers by Rick McKee for July 19, 2024

You got that right!

This is me. (sigh)

Me can bearly stays awake too.

I really need to get a comfortable chair like that to sleep in.

I can’t tell you all the great Youtube videos I’ve slept through…..

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To many things to do ! No room for being tired ;-) Small 10 minute cat naps to recharge the battery :-)

Actually, taking a nap is at the top of the list of things many old pluggers want to do.

It’s not always ‘want to,’ it is ‘need’ to.

Nope… I finally get to do what I have always wanted…..reading books outside in the nice weather…inside in the hellish weather

The days of clubbin’ and barhoppin’ are over. Pluggers wanna hit the sack.

I have finally accumulated all the tools I could ever use, but now I have no desire to use them.

Something we didn’t want ot do as little kids, but now do on our own terms.

Ouch – the truth hurts (as does my back ;)

It’s all about timing.. and most us miss the mark.

“If youth but knew; if age but could.” – Henri Estienne “Wisdom is wasted on the old, and youth is wasted on the young.” – George Bernard Shaw

There really is something backward about living…. We spend the first five years of our lives barely able to walk, then spend the next twenty on our butts trying to develop/establish a career that will hopefully feed us and our activities for the next fifty. THEN, when we have all the knowledge, a few bucks and finally time to DO all these things we’ve dreamt of, the body says “HAHAHA! Sit down”. I am not aging gracefully. I will NOT go quietly into THAT good night..

Not if he’s kept himself in shape over the years. Use it or lose it!

Is this before, after or during, doing anything he wants?

Amen, sister…

Too financially embarrassed.

Yep. That’s about right.

I still do a LOT of things I like to do but the midday nap is no longer optional.

When I was little, my parents made me go to bed at 9. I told myself, when I’m grown up, I will stay up as late as I want! Turns out, it’s 9 o’clock!

Husband in his middle 50s was burned out at work. He would come home and take a nap every afternoon. So I stupidly talked him into quitting his job and I would keep working while he tried to build up our handcrafted business. My accounting clients died (down to 4 of them) and the craft business still has not taken off close to 20 years alter.

But we live relatively like children (especially since Covid started and mostly never had to be anywhere at a specific time). We wake towards noon and go to bed around 3 or 4 am.

Don’t get a lot done, but having fun.