After years of having a daily routine, finding myself lacking one is more than a little uncomfortable.  Getting up and having breakfast without that normal get out the door deadline has left me disoriented to say the least. Add to this the weather since we returned home from our trip, dreary and overcast, wet and humid, and you have a not so auspicious beginning to this next chapter in my life.

It looks like the first priority I have is to establish a new daily routine and i am not quite sure where I want to start. The one thing I don’t plan to do is jump out and look for another job in the same industry I was in. After three and a half decades of playing and working in the convention and tradeshow niche I am ready for something else. Something creative, something more spiritual, something incorporating my love of photography.

One thing I will have to watch is the siren call of the internet. Information, magazines, news, movies, television, blogs…it’s all online now, calling for a little bit of your attention. When you look up it has been an hour, look up again and half a day has gone.

One of the primary things I must use this opportunity for is to get up from behind the computer more than I was able when I was being paid to be at the computer all day long. That desk job was not good for my health…I must work more work into my daily routine.

I know this blog has taken a turn from what I was posting in the past…Bear with me while I work my way through this…I’ll come out the other side once more, better for the trip…

And just ’cause I can…Here is another shot from the weekend…