I know one of those. She does at least have a financial advisor. I don’t understand it. She should be doing great. She did have a lodestone around her neck. Her sister that did not work.
If you saw our men’s club, you’d agree.
I haven’t played chess in probably over 30 years, but I’m not sure I’d have the patience for it now. I also know how to play cribbage. My stepfather taught me when I was a teen. I used to enjoy pinochle, euchre, and canasta, but it’s been even longer for those than for chess. I wouldn’t mind a low-stakes poker game now and then, but nobody here seems interested.
My wife is sort of in a womans ‘club’. I think it’s called 100 women that make a difference. They get together every quarter and everyone donates $100 to the ‘pot’. Then they discuss/debate what charity/organization it should go to and they vote on it. It’s not huge, but it’s a chunk of change.
Politics and religion are two lines that they will not cross. You are not even supposed to talk about it. I think the last donation was Meals on Wheels.
I was burnt out as a school librarian after 20 years. I’d need a bunch of classes to be certified in the Maryland county where I’m now subbing, and I haven’t enjoyed a single class I’ve taken since I finished my Masters in 1991. My pension is a good bit less than I was making, but with the little bit I’m making subbing we’re getting by. I’ve gone from being a school librarian not supported by administration to a sub that every teacher wants when they are out. I get more appreciation from principals now that I have for a decade.
Yup. I was just at a national conference where I did a little teaching. For the next two days, people were grabbing my hands and tearing up as they told me what a wonderful teacher I am and what a difference the 2-hour class had made in their lives. That was… not what I was getting from my university, let us say.
We spent 50+ years backpacking, canoeing, off road camping, and travel trailering all over the Southwest US. There are at least a dozen places I’d give anything to see again but old age issues finally grounded us and at 75 and 80 our travel days are behind us.
Balls.
Anyone who thinks knitting isn’t mentally challenging has never knit.
I was thinking the same, but I guess you can just do it and not even look can you not? Well, say for a one color scarf or something.
But there are so many patterns, and knot types I’m sure.
I enjoy jigsaw puzzles, too. And not in a “i can’t think, I’ll just sit here and watch TV” way, they require more active thought.
(No, that’s not the kind of puzzles my user name is about. But i like jigsaw puzzles as well as more varied mechanical puzzles.)