People ask me how I don’t get bored during retirement, and when I say I’m on my computer at least 8 hours a day, it seems hard to believe. Well, this is a typical morning, which can take up at least 2-3 hours:
Doing morning brain teasers:
| AARP crossword puzzle |  |
| L.A.Times crossword puzzle |  |
| NYT Strands game |  |
| NYT Connections game |  |
| NYT Wordle game |  |
Next in my routine are visiting these websites:
| Check our Google calendar for the day’s commitments |  |
| Check today’s to-do list in my iPhone Reminders app |  |
| Review our checking account activity |  |
| Update my sentence-a-day diary |  |
| Check my wait-listed library books for movement |  |
| Check the morning’s stock market activity |  |
| See what my exercise check-in is for today |  |
| Read the day’s TLDR newsletter |  |
| Check the daily BookCrossing releases |  |
| Check my daily BookBub email for free e-books |  |
I do things like this on the computer throughout the rest of the day:
- Write blog entries like this one (which I spent at least an hour on).
- Write my three 50-word stories on Wednesdays — and sometime one set of bonus ones on the weekend.
- Check for potential cruises and vacations to go on.
- Follow-up on any emails or invoices that have come in.
- Update our Google calendar with any social events (we socialize a lot), doctor’s appointments, scheduled service calls (e.g., exterminator, roof-cleaning) that have come about.
- Update my books-read this year page when I finish books.
- Update Bob’s movie website when he finishes movies.
- Check the PostSecret website on Sundays.
- Update our weekly menus each week.
- Take and record my blood pressure.
- Update out Mostly Social Book Club’s web page as we choose future books.
And usually, I spend my evenings reading. As of today, I’ve read 30 books so far this year.