{"id":8974,"date":"2026-06-03T12:20:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T12:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/?p=8974"},"modified":"2026-06-03T12:20:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T12:20:55","slug":"happy-anniversary-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/?p=8974","title":{"rendered":"Happy Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today is my parents anniversary! Hope it&#8217;s a fun party up there. I&#8217;m sure it will be. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m off to Denver in an hour or so to meet my buddy Toby and then to get a quick haircut before having minor surgery at the dermatologist. If I&#8217;m lucky, I should be home around 5:30 or so. It all depends on traffic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lori is working hard at work. Ty works at 10. I didn&#8217;t sleep too well last night, but am fine now. I have a lot going on at work as every day a few new issues pop up. You just have to handle them one at a time as they come. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I talked to my 50 year friend Fred, who lives up in Shelton Washington, near the coast. He&#8217;s a bit older than me, at 73. I called him a couple weeks ago and was worried as he didn&#8217;t answer his phone. When he called me back, he said he just looks at his phone now and laughs when it rings. In typical Freddie fashion, he said, &#8220;dude, I&#8217;m done, I checked out&#8221;. What he meant was he&#8217;s fully retired. He said he and the wife downsized and now has a 2500 square foot garden at his house and his little sail boat right on the water out front. I asked him how often he gets to Seattle and he said he hasn&#8217;t been there in two years! He said he doesn&#8217;t even go in the grocery store, but picks his stuff up that he orders outside the store. He&#8217;s basically gone full native without a care in the World. When I hung up, I was a bit envious. I&#8217;d love to put my phone in a drawer and not look at it for a week or so, or even throw it away! Freddie said he was a slave to the fucking thing and wasn&#8217;t getting the return from it for being tied to it 24\/7. Makes sense if you think about it. I&#8217;ve always said I miss the 70&#8217;s before all this technology. Sometime soon, I&#8217;ll get there, but it&#8217;ll probably be another year or two. Can&#8217;t wait though. It&#8217;s a good goal to have, detaching yourself from the grid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s it, time to get moving, have a great day, God Bless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is my parents anniversary! Hope it&#8217;s a fun party up there. I&#8217;m sure it will be. I&#8217;m off to Denver in an hour or so to meet my buddy Toby and then to get a quick haircut before having &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/?p=8974\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8975,"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8974\/revisions\/8975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}