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Post #4

10 July 2011

Retirement is looking to me much more like a career change these days.  I was a professional poker dealer for twenty years but the mechanics of handling a deck of cards coupled with the necessity of maintaining absolute control over the game, the players and my thinking processes me took a few years to achieve.

I returned to school when I was forty-five to embark on a career in information technology. As with my career in the gaming industry, this career was not a case of simply knowing about the activity but years of hands on experience were required for me to master my newly chosen field.

Owning, maintaining and operating a sailing vessel designed to cross oceans is beginning to look to me much more like a career than retirement.  The challenges of procuring a satisfactory vessel for my purposes alone have exceeded all expectations of time and effort.

The reality of my woefully inadequate mechanical and self sufficiency skills has now become abundantly apparent with the purchase of an aging 27-foot sailing vessel and suggests a steep learning curve with a lot of work to prepare the boat and myself.  I expect that I’ll be working for a bit less than minimum wage for the next 18 months.

 

Post #3

26 February, 2011

Clearly, this page has not been given the attention it perhaps deserves. Factually, however, my attention for the past 18 months has been much more on living than reporting.

In May 2009 I revitalized an old abandoned dream of making a five to seven-year solo circumnavigation of the world.  Since then, all of my energies have been directed toward bringing that dream to fruition.

Bringing any dream to fruition requires intention, well considered planning, action and a simple refusal to be stopped by one's own or other’s counter-intentions.  It is the last that gives me the most difficulty.

My most immediate target is to enhance my spiritual knowledge and literacy in the belief that a deficiency of knowledge is the primary source of fear and its consequential inaction that brings about failures in life and living.  To this end I have connected with a personal coach whose role is to invite inspection and re-evaluation of my precepts, beliefs and past solutions. It is a daily process.

The intermediate target is to retire from the daily demand of my employer and clients early in 2012 and move to a floating home to prepare for my adventure in earnest.

 

Post #2

29 November, 2010

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Post #1

26 September, 2009

Over the past several weeks this website has been given a complete facelift after years of neglect.  The site has been restyled, code has been made standards compliant, navigation streamlined and new features, including this page, have been added.  I hope that my viewers like the changes.

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