Thinking seriously about retirement...

Zanne and I are moving closer to a decision to retire me from the Lab. I love the idea of leaving all the stress behind, but it's hard to walk away from the money. Still, with the help of our financial advisor, it looks like we can easily do it. The looming question is whether to take social security now or wait. There are major advantages and disadvantages either way. We have picked a tentative date: March 10, 2023. We'll see.

Playing Midway Solitaire on one table. Just got this one, and, seeing as it is a title from Decision Games, the rules are a bit wonky. Need to clarify a few things, but making my way through the first game. So far, the Japanese have led off with two operations toward my base in the Aleutians. The first one was bloodless. The second is underway. Interesting game that pits the player (the US) against the system (Japs). The US side has few resources and lots to defend, resulting in some risky decision making.

On my main table, I'm playing the old favorite, Mage Knight. Simply a fantastic game. A real "gamer's game"--clean but complex rules, lots of hard decisions, and kind of puzzly, because you have to try to get the most out of your hand each turn. Mucho fun.

Teaching Zechariah on zoom on Sunday nights, and really enjoying it. My favorite book of the Bible, called "the Revelation of the Old Testament". There is so much here in this book that you really don't get anywhere else. My problem is figuring out how to teach it well. I think that sometimes the students come short of understanding the profound significance of some of this book--the crowning of Joshua, the announcement of the Branch, the woman in the basket, etc. 

Would love to do a week at Ocean City in September, but haven't convinced Zanne yet. She's still intimidated about travel from our last venture into the Pacific Northwest, where we both caught COVID!