{"id":30209,"date":"2018-06-09T02:21:12","date_gmt":"2018-06-09T02:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30209"},"modified":"2018-06-09T02:21:12","modified_gmt":"2018-06-09T02:21:12","slug":"happy-trails-part-108-every-day-is-a-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30209","title":{"rendered":"Happy Trails, Part 108: Every day is a weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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AMARILLO, Texas<\/strong> — It’s taking me a while to get used to this notion, but it’s sinking in.<\/p>\n

I was doing some business today in Amarillo, where we’re visiting and taking care of some personal matters.<\/p>\n

I made the transaction and the teller said to me as I walked away, “Have a great weekend.”<\/p>\n

To which I said with a slight chuckle, “Every<\/em> day is a weekend.” The young man who wished me the “great weekend” is in his 20s. I told him, “Yes, I’m old and when you get to be my age you get to say things like that.”<\/p>\n

This retirement gig does give one a unique perspective on time. When we don’t have to be somewhere, reporting for work and answering to a boss we are free to come and go as we please.<\/p>\n

I’ve been retired now for a few years, but after spending four decades working full- and part-time for others I’ve been a bit slow to react appropriately to the normal throwaway greetings we get as we do business throughout the course of a given day.<\/p>\n

“Have a good weekend” clearly is one of those greetings one tosses out. I do it, too.<\/p>\n

My sister, who’s been retired for a good bit longer than my wife and I have, has told me how she and her husband laugh out loud when they get those greetings. I don’t guffaw (and I don’t think she does, either) when someone wishes us a “nice weekend.”<\/p>\n

There are times when I forget what day it is. I occasionally have to take a breath and think for a moment, “Is this Tuesday, Wednesday … or what?” I hear that’s normal, too.<\/p>\n

Just to set the record straight, though, I still wear a watch on my wrist, which I’m told is rather weird for a retired guy. I’m not yet into using my cellphone as a time piece. Maybe that day will come. Just not yet.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, retirement remains the best time of our life.<\/p>\n\n

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AMARILLO, Texas — It’s taking me a while to get used to this notion, but it’s sinking in. I was doing some business today in Amarillo, where we’re visiting and taking care of some personal matters. I made the transaction and the teller said to me as I walked away, “Have a great weekend.” To … Continue reading Happy Trails, Part 108: Every day is a weekend<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3920],"class_list":["post-30209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30210,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30209\/revisions\/30210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}