Before I retired, I used to dream, after retirement, of having days of free time to do software development, and to participate in online forums.
Before retirement, I had a deal with the wife, that evenings from 9pm to 11pm, I could visit this site and another, and do the things in LInux that kept me going. And I did have two mornings per week from 5am to 6:30, before work, to do linux stuff. The other three AMs were for my health exercises and walks.
Well, that what I could do, given I was a working man with a job, family with kids and other.
Now that I am married, has much changed. Well... not really.
Now that I have free days (ha ha), the wife has plans. Take me shopping. Such-and-such a supermarket is running a special on xyz, and I promised daughter and sister, that if I go, I will get them some too.
In the afternoons, I have my hour to peruse this forum, checkout Phoronix, my-emails. It is then that my wife will say,
xyz seems broken, can you fix it? Or, her brother(my bro-in-law) has a plumbing problem, can you run over. Yup, I am the family handyman.
Let me summarize.
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When I worked, I had 35 hours on the job, 5 hours travelling to/from/clients and now that I am a pensioner, retired,
those 40 hours somehow seem to be swallowed up by the Missus.
Am I alone with the "free time exchange" that I had before/after pension?
Before retirement, I had a deal with the wife, that evenings from 9pm to 11pm, I could visit this site and another, and do the things in LInux that kept me going. And I did have two mornings per week from 5am to 6:30, before work, to do linux stuff. The other three AMs were for my health exercises and walks.
Well, that what I could do, given I was a working man with a job, family with kids and other.
Now that I am married, has much changed. Well... not really.
Now that I have free days (ha ha), the wife has plans. Take me shopping. Such-and-such a supermarket is running a special on xyz, and I promised daughter and sister, that if I go, I will get them some too.
So.. Supermarket drive, shopping delay, drive to sister, drive to daugher and of course blah-blah-blah conversations about the news and family events of the day.
FWI, There goes my morning. In the afternoons, I have my hour to peruse this forum, checkout Phoronix, my-emails. It is then that my wife will say,
xyz seems broken, can you fix it? Or, her brother(my bro-in-law) has a plumbing problem, can you run over. Yup, I am the family handyman.
Let me summarize.
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When I worked, I had 35 hours on the job, 5 hours travelling to/from/clients and now that I am a pensioner, retired,
those 40 hours somehow seem to be swallowed up by the Missus.
Am I alone with the "free time exchange" that I had before/after pension?
