This is my first blog post about what I hope and plan to be an ongoing blog. What will I talk about? I truly don’t know exactly but my thought is I will talk about:
- Moving to a new state after age 50 (is the grass greener?);
- Traveling (we have a lot of traveling planned);
- Money (FIRE, budgeting, investing, etc… from a layperson’s perspective);
- Parenting (we got two kids who are about to head off to college);
- Marriage (I am married to my best friend);
- Gym, golf, walking (basically keeping the heart working);
- Cars, music, sports, grief, stuff (life stuff – good and bad);
- LIFE!
At least that’s the current plan. I feel like there is someone blogging about just about every topic that I mentioned above so I am not really breaking new ground except this is MY STORY! It’s MY BLOG! If you disagree that’s great I’d love to see your comments below. If you agree with what I say that’s of course even better and shows how smart you are so definitely comment and show the world how smart you are!
So post one, post numero uno, my first post of my new blog. What do I do? What do I talk about? It seems like I should tell you about myself!? I assume you want to know about the author!? The blogger!? I have blogged before but mainly about legal matters (I am a lawyer by day but hopefully not for much longer and I have no intent to talk about that stuff in this blog) and I had a short-lived blog which was sort of day-to-day stuff that happened in my life. Here’s a link to my first post at my old blog. This new blog is about me at 50’ish and what will happen next. So here’s some bio material for your consideration….
So I am just past 50 and my wife and best friend, we’ll call her Cat, is just under 50. Our kids are 16 (Boy) and 15 (Girl). They are a junior and a sophomore in high school. We have a dog (Whitey). We live in the ‘burbs of SacTown, California. We have basically lived in California our whole lives except for short stints outside the Golden State. I’d like to go somewhere else in a few years. We shall see….
California is a great place but I have often wondered what else is out there!? In many ways I really believe California is the best place to live in the country… even with it’s many challenges and it does have challenges. However, where doesn’t have some challenges!? Is the place that you live perfect? Heck, I have done every online test and read every single article saying where people should live and I generally come back with something in California or at least the west…. Plus we like the idea of traveling a bit and/or living abroad maybe!?
We will talk about this much more in the future but I like sun, I don’t like rain, I don’t mind hot, I don’t like cold, I have no need for snow. That sounds like the western US and by western I mean Redding, CA or south (because we know the State of Jefferson, Oregon and Washington get way too much gray clouds and rain), the southern half of Nevada, most of Arizona, and maybe ½ of New Mexico (before it becomes Texas west). If I had to pick today we’d move to the Summerlin area of Las Vegas, Nevada.
There are a few things we won’t talk about because I find them uninteresting but since they are great keywords on the internet we’ll mention them today: Star Wars, Star Trek, Anime, Monga, Science Fiction, Game of Thrones, Disneyland, XXX movies and the list goes on. Actually Boy likes all the science fiction stuff, Cat and Girl both like Disneyland and I just wanted to say XXX movies to get some Google juice! Is it weird I have never seen an episode of Game of Thrones? I feel so out of it.
Until next time….
-TheMiddleAgeGuy___