Sunday August 27 off to the Rhine-2023

     So it is the Sunday before we leave for our Rhine River Cruise on Wednesday. As always there is anxiety, anticipation, excitement, and worry. I am recovering from a bout with some sort of bug. Many of the symptoms seem like the new COVID. I was pretty down for about 3-4 days with my body aching, a headache, a constant cough and sinuses being real bad .Overall a sense of tiredness and feeling feverish, though I did not run a temperature Even today I'm not 100% as I just don't feel the same energy as when I'm fully healthy. 
      I've been plotting out the trip and hoping for the best. I'm excited about travel but not sure how well wendy and I travel together anymore so the trip has mixed fillings. Work is going well as I finally settled reelan and hoyer, and desiato is around the corner. Still not as many settled as I would like but enough to make things good. So 2023 should be a good year. The question is how much I have to do in 2024.
     The best thing is the fixed income of the retainer and social security .so for the first time in basically  my life the combination of the fixed income of 8,000 a month plus hardly any overhead due to no staff and no rent makes it so I'm doing fairly well for myself. The question is how long it will last as I am not taking a lot of new cases and I am limited in what I can do in my slimmed down practice .
   For now it's good but we'll see how long it will last and  what happens when I am just on social security and my IRA . I am trying to put that off for as long as I can, though at the same time I don't want to work as hard .I want to be able to enjoy retirement or at least have some time of retirement to enjoy so it's a constant balance between working to sustain a living and at the same time wanting to enjoy the fruits of retirement. 
    2023 was good but I still am working pretty hard. I would like to work less and travel more , but that involves making enough money to do so .At the present time I'm trying to cut the debts down which hopefully I'll be there at the end of 2023. With a bunch of  my present cases I won't really know until  about October November their status.  Hopefully  I will have a better idea of where I'm going with the additional cases I still have .For now I just want to be able to enjoy the vacation and Laura's wedding and continue to enjoy life

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