We had guests for dinner on this Thanksgiving day that just passed. Fortunately, they did half of the work, so it was more manageable and less stressful than it might have been. While such occasions are supposed to be fun and joyful, they are often more stressful.
It continues to get colder and the days get shorter, but no real snow has fallen since October. This is good, but it does make it harder to feel like the Christmas season is upon us. Today is "black Friday" when sensible people try to avoid going to any shopping district, but most people see it as a great opportunity to spend money. For retailers, this is good.
We had plans to spend a couple days in Boston and a couple days on Cape Cod two weeks ago, but Janet had a bad case of conjunctivitis and could not go. Before that plans feel apart for the two days on Cape Cod, so Jim went alone and attended the Boston Book Fair show at the Back Bay Events Center. This was fun - as usual- but not very profitable from a sales point of view and the post- show contacts and sales have not be great either. Such has been the book business for many years now, but it sometimes has its bright moments.
The process of downsizing this year has consisted of selling our house on Cape Cod, donating a fair amount of good furniture to the Salvation Army and selling a variety of things collected on Craig's list. Craig's list seems to have a number of people who follow it closely and contact people right away and many others who look once in awhile. Still, some things were listed a 2-3 months back and gathered no responses, but when re-listed, they got instant responses. Hard to figure.
Since retiring from Jim's employer of 35+ years on June 30 and working for the new employer for just short of 5 months, his last official workday was Nov. 22- so now he is officially retired from the second company too. Since the last Real work day of Oct. 9 the second company has laid off a number of people around the world and now there are rumors it may be sold to someone.... who?
All those still working may be having a difficult and stressful time trying to decide what to do.
It continues to get colder and the days get shorter, but no real snow has fallen since October. This is good, but it does make it harder to feel like the Christmas season is upon us. Today is "black Friday" when sensible people try to avoid going to any shopping district, but most people see it as a great opportunity to spend money. For retailers, this is good.
We had plans to spend a couple days in Boston and a couple days on Cape Cod two weeks ago, but Janet had a bad case of conjunctivitis and could not go. Before that plans feel apart for the two days on Cape Cod, so Jim went alone and attended the Boston Book Fair show at the Back Bay Events Center. This was fun - as usual- but not very profitable from a sales point of view and the post- show contacts and sales have not be great either. Such has been the book business for many years now, but it sometimes has its bright moments.
The process of downsizing this year has consisted of selling our house on Cape Cod, donating a fair amount of good furniture to the Salvation Army and selling a variety of things collected on Craig's list. Craig's list seems to have a number of people who follow it closely and contact people right away and many others who look once in awhile. Still, some things were listed a 2-3 months back and gathered no responses, but when re-listed, they got instant responses. Hard to figure.
Since retiring from Jim's employer of 35+ years on June 30 and working for the new employer for just short of 5 months, his last official workday was Nov. 22- so now he is officially retired from the second company too. Since the last Real work day of Oct. 9 the second company has laid off a number of people around the world and now there are rumors it may be sold to someone.... who?
All those still working may be having a difficult and stressful time trying to decide what to do.
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