Retirement is a mixed bag. A very interesting thing happened to me shortly after I retired. While I was working at Intuit I commuted 25 miles each way in very heavy traffic. I can't say it didn't bother me but I was able to do it and there were no real panic attacks. But when I no longer had to drive to work I soon was unable to drive on the freeways without problems. I had to take Xanax every time I drove from San Marcos to Escondido to see a doctor. I had three doctor's in Escondido.

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It was very hard for me to adjust to retirement. I had been working to make my living since I was 16. It has been very hard not to have projects that I have to get done. I did write the third book in the Tales of Armont trilogy but I'm not happy with it and will one of these days go back and rewrite it (did it in 2017). Another thing that I have done is write this document explaining who I am, what I have done during my life and what I believe in various areas of life – including death.

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At this point I find retirement to be very boring. I have a condition called Metatarsalgia. I went to see a neurologist about the condition and he performed a couple of procedures that checked the nerves in the foot around the ball. He could not send any electrical impulses from one point to another. He was baffled and sent me to a  podiatrist who said he knew what my problem was and he wished he had an answer for it because both his wife and mother had the same problem. The bottom line is that I can't walk more than a hundred yards without stopping. This means that most exercise programs are out. So I sit and read --- except I have cataracts in both eyes and they go blurry after about a half hour of reading. That's my life in retirement.

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The one good thing is that I went to a cardiologist and had a heart stress test and the doctor said that my arteries were basically free of any blockage. When he listened to the pulse in my foot he said there were very few patients that he had listened to who had as strong a beat down there as I did. And my heart is very strong. He said I wouldn’t die of a heart attack in the near future.

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