The day to day aspects of life: what is happening around the house and in our family
I learned yesterday that Belghast (Mark Temple) had died just a few days ago. The shock hit me hard despite the fact that I barely knew him. Cancer took him from the world as it does so many, a year to the day after it took his wife.
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A few months ago over the Christmas holiday season I had a mental breakdown. I documented it a bit in previous posts, but there has been a significant gap of days in my accounting.
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In 2025 I had a custom Harley Road Glide trike built. I still haven’t written about that in my other blog, Geek on a Harley– one day that too will manifest. But I got a custom license plate for it, and felt talking about that plate was a bit more suited to this, my main blog.
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We are entering the spring season here in the Kootenays, a time when the weather is supposed to be somewhat unpredictable. But this year our whole winter has been kind of strange- and our spring is setting up to be equally odd.
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My truck produced a lovely indicator a few weeks ago showing a picture of what could be interpreted as an engine. In this context, this indicator is know as the ‘Check Engine Light’ or CEL.
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I had an MRI of my lower back a week ago, and the results have come in this week. The MRI confirms that the left channel (fossae) in the L4-L5 vertebrae is compressed. This pretty much explains my sciatic nerve problems: the root cause, so to speak, of my sciatic pain is the degeneration of my lower lumbar spine.
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The last quarter of 2025 was a bit of a mess for me health-wise. It started in October with some kind of sciatic nerve disruption that left me essentially crippled and, on some days, crawling on the floor to move about. It ended with me in the Daly Pavilion for mental abnormality reasons.
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Everyone in the modern world deals with constant distractions. But one of the benefits I expected from retirement was the concept of being able to focus on a task, or to set it aside and come back to it later without nagging guilt. I was, sadly, wrong to expect this.
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I retired on May 31, 2024. That means over a year has passed and I am still happy with the decision. Irene and I have had some tough times during the past year that I’ll touch on in this post. But the absence of the pressures of work has made it a lot easier to bounce back.
But my post-retirement lifestyle is not the active and adventurous, check-off-your-bucket-list thrill that most retirement advisors seem to recommend. And I guess I’m here to say that, for me at least, that is perfectly okay.
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