Coasting
What's New and What's Not As I alluded to in December's entry we have entered a waiting phase before the coming big life changes actually arrive. The first of those changes was to be my retirement at the end of January, but we're now in February and I am still working. And the biggest reason for that is simple: there are not enough things to do here in central Oregon to keep me busy (at least during the winter months) and so I might as well work, which provides both income and health insurance. The new plan is to work until the end of February. Our scouting trip to Sacramento is the second week of March and after that I will be busy preparing the house to put on the market by April (at the latest). My employer would prefer that I keep working indefinitely and so they are happy for the extra month and are in fact hoping for additional bonus months. Rather than resign at the end of February I agreed to take a personal leave of absence, which keeps my position open and al...