{"id":10641,"date":"2021-11-06T13:43:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T17:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=10641"},"modified":"2021-11-06T13:43:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T17:43:19","slug":"the-blog-about-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/06\/the-blog-about-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"The blog about nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With apologies to <em>Seinfeld <\/em>&#8211; the &#8220;show about nothing.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, a lot of people seemed to like the nothingness of that show, so I will list a few of the &#8220;nothing&#8221; things that I have done in my first month at my home base in Ft Myers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>I got Rusty professionally groomed. He no longer looks like a ragamuffin.<\/li><li>I finished scanning the (hopefully) last batch of Jett&#8217;s photos &#8211; the 1,500 photos that I discovered under the bed.<\/li><li>I have tried (without much success so far) to get the truck&#8217;s rear quarter-panel damage repaired.  Seems that finding parts for a 17-year-old truck is difficult.<\/li><li>I have searched for a part-time job. Again, without success.  I have applied for two and have received not even the courtesy of a response.<\/li><li>I have tried to resurrect Jett&#8217;s old laptop.  It seems mostly functional (though old) and pretty lightly-used, so if I can get it to work reliably (it is crashing) then I could donate it to a worthy cause.  I hate to discard potentially useful electronics.<\/li><li>I finished posting, to findagrave.com, the batch of about 100 headstone photos that I took in Athol MA before I headed south.<\/li><li>I have given some serious consideration to going to OR for Thanksgiving and TX for Christmas.  Right now OR looks unlikely but TX is likely.<\/li><li>I am seriously thinking of going on a solo cruise in January. They are <strong>cheap <\/strong>&#8211; hard to resist.<\/li><li>I have started another round of updates on my genealogical research, starting with Jett&#8217;s family tree (which is more interesting than mine). I am thinking of producing a series of PDFs documenting her immigrant ancestors.  The PDF form is better than the original email form for including supplementary documents &#8211; photos, maps, etc.  And the PDFs won&#8217;t get lost when the disk crashes, as was the fate of my email posts.<\/li><li>I have tried to help my son through a rough patch. &#8216;Nuff said.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>There is nothing in that list that, by itself, is blog-worthy.  But I haven&#8217;t been sitting around eating bon-bons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just wanted you to know that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With apologies to Seinfeld &#8211; the &#8220;show about nothing.&#8221; Well, a lot of people seemed to like the nothingness of that show, so I will list a few of the &#8220;nothing&#8221; things that I have done in my first month at my home base in Ft Myers: I got Rusty professionally groomed. 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