Benjie is scheduled to arrive tomorrow, meaning that I need to be up early again. Hoping to finally have four walls repainted.

Retirement means that all scheduled work, whether serious or whimsical, is for me and me alone, not for an institution I do not own. This is how I have always wanted to live--not as a cogwheel that must turn when it has to but as a free, independent wheel that turns only when it wants to and stops only when it wants to.