This time the game is real

Moving madness, not March madness! Starting to feel it this week...

Satisfaction Search

Go to realtor.com and using the settings for search type in parameters of within 20 miles of San Diego, 2+ acres, 0-5 years old, 2,700 sq ft or larger and 2+ car garage. This is the closest search term settings to what I'm moving into in Arkansas.

You'll find less than 20 houses. And prices far above 1 million dollars. To buy what I'm getting in AR here in San Diego would cost me millions, yes plural, of dollars. And it was 370,000 dollars there, for a brand new home no less. That's a mortgage of $1,700 a month if you put 10% down.

That amount gets you a single bedroom apartment. Apartment!

I can complain about the lack of fresh fruit, lots of fried food, slower pace, further drives for some things, lack of choice for cultural activities ect. But man, look at just house prices and all of a sudden those other things seem to matter waaaaaayyyy less and I feel much more secure in my choice of where I'm landing for the next phase of life.

Goodbyes

It's turning into that time now. The hugs, the tears, the address exchanges, the well wishes. Saying goodbye to the people here in CA that I'll probably never see again. The true realization of moving and change and distance.

I'm happy with moving and cant' wait. But I still have ten years worth of feelings for people here in San Diego. You'll be missed.

El Tiburon

Guess who wants to eat at the big kid table?

Oh what a relief it is!

The land I bought for a shooting range out in east county has sold!!! I signed the papers this morning. Thanks and praise to God as this was a huge mental anguish for me for the past year. I feel soo much happier and relaxed now.

Something I'd let have power over my emotions and thoughts is now powerless and a soon to be distant memory.

Pilgrims progress

I've really neglected my blog the last two years and that's about to change! Why you say?

I downloaded the Blogger ap to my phone. Now that I don't need my laptop to post I predict a return to my old blogging form.

Buckle up, we're going for a ride!

Things to do and buy week one in Arkansas

-buy house appliances. refrigerator, freezer, washer, dryer. ($4,000?)
-buy yard tractor/mower. ($1,600)
-buy tool chest, work bench, shelves for garage. ($600)

-pay for fence. ($15,000)
-pay for sprinkler system. ($??)I'll guess $6,000......

-turn on water in my name. (Free)
-get Arkansas driver license and register truck. ($100)

-get new tv channels and internet service ($200)

-start new job
-get range membership ($200)

Yep, that should take about 7 days and $28,000 dollars....... YIKES.

None to one to three.

I had never ever owned a house in my life until this one. And this month I could possibly be doing three real estate deals. Selling the San Diego house, buying the Arkansas house and selling the land out in east San Diego county.

I really hope and pray all three deals go through!

Before moving I sold all the motorcycles as well. It is a pain to move 4 motorcycles across country. So right now I am at "none" for motorcycles. But if the land sells I'll quickly be at one. And by the end of the year have a couple more to be back at three.

Multiple ways this month I could go "none, one, three". And I'll take each and every one, err three, of them.

Duality of Man

with the last post I still can hold other opinions about my day to day life. One thought that has been recently occurring to me over and over is, "Is this what you'd be doing today if you'd just gotten out of the hospital?" By that I mean, there have been months where I couldn't eat, leave my house or even my bed.

I remember the desire I had soo strongly back then to get back to jiu jitsu, that's what kept me moving. While I no longer do bjj any more I like to think what am doing each day to make hospital bed-bound me think I'm making something of the day.

Carpe diem and all that.

On THIS day............

It's been almost a month since I posted and I think I know why.

This is the very first day of my life where I've felt more of my life is behind me than in front of me.

All of the big things in life have already happened. I've been born, grew up, married, had children, went to college, worked a professional job, traveled the world. The only big life events to come up are retirement and death. That's it. And since I don't work a regular job that only leaves the final event.....

Another crushing realization on this day is that I'm also now at a point where I used to be better at more things than I am now or will be in the future. I can't think of but more than 2 or 3 things I'll be better at in 10 years than I am now, or were. And they're mostly intangible things like "being patient" or "photography" and so forth.

I will never be as good at riding a motorcycle, riding a bicycle, running, brazilian jiu jitsu, surfing, autocrossing, tennis, writing, rock climbing, math and deductive reasoning as I have been at any other time in my life before today.

I don't feel like my life is over, and there are many things I'm looking forward to doing. But I feel I am on the downward side of it all. So I guess I now truly am old........... I'm definitely past the middle of my life expectancy.

I look forward with a smile to time with family, travel, learning some new things, hopefully staying healthy and so on. But when I think of just me, myself and I. Well it seems I'll never be again now as "good" as I ever was before.

How's that for a shock of cold water immersion reality?