Dazed and confused for so long it's not true

Monday began this week in weirdness & confusion?

The causation factor, I believe, is due to our local weather being 

Schizophrenic.

One day 80 degrees, the next day 23 degrees and snowing

repeat & repeat until we all go insane from

barometric pressure variances.

This weirdness has even attacked our baby--

Who was also acting out of sorts.

Incredibly unusual for our normally happy little boy.
As the week progresses things have stabled out--
with all of us...
The weather however has refused to stabilize--?
Yesterday was in the 60's during the day and last night it snowed 4 inches?
WTF?

The current weather conditions have in a manner forced
me to take time off from several homestead work projects.
On the single day of nice weather I did manage to complete my 
garage project--photo's to follow soon...
Ten full days of work--interrupted by 10 days of
bad weather and other projects--
but I'm FINISHED with the garage, excepting minor details, for now.

This bad weather pause is forcibly instructing me
how to embrace retired time without direction. 
I do need to take in the fact that i do not have to work
till i drop everyday...
That it is perfectly correct for me to have days without
enforced direction.
To sit, to write, to think, to just talk with Jojo....

Kudos's to the Mayor of Washington D.C.

for telling 

Congressional Republicans to go fuck themselves!

D.C. legalizing Pot no matter what the feds say!

Damn, just Damn

Geeks world-wide are in mourning today..

My personal, have on me, kit has changed so much now
in retirement.
 I carry:
My Swiss Champ knife in a belt sheath--

I wear my Kangol (Samuel L. Jackson model)

hats constantly.

Admittedly one of them spotted with paint from the most recent jobs.

These hats keep my hair out of my eyes and are very outside the norm here,

 a ball cap- is standard issue in my 

area of residence.

For keeping track of the time I have been lately wearing

my

Suunto Vector watch--

most days now--simple, easy to read and --

Waaay tough enough to withstand abuse
while working around the house--
add to all this

 A standard issue black hoodie--constantly--

it's always hot-cold-hot-cold around the homestead 

in the New Mexico winter.

My weight has been re-adjusting to retirement so

Adjustable web belt is now standard equipment.
Actually losing weight--the opposite of most who retire?

Blue jeans, plain blue T-shirt and Palladium footwear complete

the daily kit for whatever i plan doing around the homestead.
This mixture has become my retirement uniform so to say.

My first ever, true boombox arrived!

The Sharp GF-8989

it is just awesome.

There are one or two less than perfect conditions with it

but i am hugely satisfied so far.

It is a big beauty for the collection!

I am very pleased that i started attempting to repair my Panasonic

FM-RX-40 boombox which suddenly stopped playing tapes....

This is my first repair attempt and

figuring out how to open the casing without breaking something..

was like a Chinese puzzle..

Opening these things requires the patience of a bomb tech--

Finally opening the casing I discovered that my uninformed opinion 

as to what was wrong with it, turns out to actually be correct.

The tape player belt snapped.

I have actually been able to determine the official Panasonic 

belt part number and located a supplier and ordered a replacement belt

and additional backups.

Once the new belt arrives replacement and closing the casing back up

are the next steps followed by the "I hope it works" meditation...

Bidding this week on a Panasonic RF 888 PSB FM radio 

on Ebay--massively cool!

Although a simple AM/FM, single 6 & 1/2 inch speaker, portable radio only unit

these are excellent radio's with a really great design factor...produced in 1973.

I am planning on lining into the radio one of my cassette player/recorders.

We'll see how this auction turns out--I am of course

attempting to obtain this item as inexpensively as possible?

This week----

A French police series the title translates as

SPIRAL

and 

the film

"If you're not confused,

you're not paying attention."

Tom Peters