Slightly Unretired - March 13, 2025

Regular reader(s) of this blog may recall that back before I retired, I was working at sorting records. The objective was both to help the departments find their records and to prepare permanent records for eventual transfer to the county archive.  The county archive did not yet formally exist.  There were problems finding space.  The space eventually chosen needed fairly extensive repairs.  I had been chosen as the county archivist.  I had promised The Boss that when the space was ready, I would come back to get the archive going.

I'm going to need a lot of help.

I don't know beans about setting up an archive.  The state archives offers an archivist certification program.  I applied for the class last year, but did not get in.  This year, I was accepted (thank goodness) and will have the first class next month.

Meanwhile, folks from the state archive are coming to town next week to have a look at the space and give me pointers on getting this thing off the ground.  I have no idea what progress has been made on repairs since I retired.  The last time I was in the space - the former county jail - it was creepy as hell.  It won't surprise me to find it just like I left it.

I kind of dread this, and kind of not.  

I have not yet "had enough" of retirement.  I want to try to have a better vegetable garden this year, now that I will have more time to work it.  And I haven't done enough "art stuff" and enough research into things that intrigue me.

But

I have pretty much sat on my ass for the past three months.  It's been cold.  My hobbies have been sedentary activities. I've gained 10 pounds since Christmas.  I should probably leave the house occasionally, though I really don't want to.

We'll see how it goes.