{"id":21299,"date":"2019-08-12T10:44:38","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T14:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=21299"},"modified":"2019-08-12T10:45:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T14:45:09","slug":"upcoming-a-new-series-or-two-about-taking-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/upcoming-a-new-series-or-two-about-taking-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming: A New Series or Two about Taking Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ahockley\/32150788648\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"938\" class=\"alignright wp-image-21301 size-full\" style=\"width: 40%;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/takeoff_aaronhockley_med.jpg?resize=750%2C938&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Image: 'Takeoff,' by Aaron Hockley on Flickr.com\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/takeoff_aaronhockley_med.jpg?w=750&amp;ssl=1 750w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/takeoff_aaronhockley_med.jpg?resize=240%2C300&amp;ssl=1 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><span class=\"su-dropcap su-dropcap-style-light\" style=\"font-size:2.5em\">A<\/span>s you may know if you&#8217;ve crossed paths with me here or elsewhere in the last year, I sorta-kinda retired in July, 2018, after 39+ years in computer-related stuff (principally programming)&#8230; and then returned to work a few weeks later. The <em>real<\/em> retirement &#8212; this time, one for which The Missus will join me &#8212; will take place in March, 2020. We&#8217;re moving in the direction of &#8220;planning&#8221; for this next stage of life, and accordingly I&#8217;ve set up a couple of new categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"RAMH posts in the 'Retirement' category\" href=\"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/category\/everyday-life\/retirement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Retirement<\/a>: a general-purpose umbrella category, for those posts about the subject which don&#8217;t fit handily elsewhere (maybe this will need to be renamed &#8212; or subsumed into another category named &#8212; something like &#8220;Old Age,&#8221; but I&#8217;m not quite ready to cross that bridge).<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"RAMH posts in the 'Temporarily Expatting' (sub-)category\" href=\"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/category\/everyday-life\/retirement\/temporarily-expatting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Temporarily Expatting<\/a> (a sub-category of Retirement): for about six months starting sometime (May? June?) in mid-2020, we hope to cross the Atlantic to see some of Europe &#8212; a couple of months in the UK, a couple in Northern Europe, and a couple in Southern Europe; I anticipate posts in this category will be scratchpad-type things to help me keep track of what we&#8217;ve done so far, what we <em>must<\/em> do prior to leaving, and of course what we&#8217;re up to while over there.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If our plan holds, we&#8217;ll return to a (one hopes) considerably saner USA towards the end of 2020, depend upon the kind hospitality of family and friends for a little while, and then head off again for a spell of touring around this country. But no category for this yet: let&#8217;s not get ahead of ourselves!<br \/>\n____________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the image:<\/strong> this beautiful photo by Aaron Hockley (found on Flickr, where clicking on the photo will take you) is called &#8220;Takeoff,&#8221; and depicts, well, a takeoff &#8212; from Portland International Airport in this case, although I think the picture suits the general theme here. I&#8217;m particularly pleased that the airplane is obviously propeller- or turboprop- rather than jet-propelled; this seems to fit our own context much better than one of those high-falutin&#8217; no-moving-parts futuristic thingums.<\/p>\n<p>(Of course, I&#8217;m using the photo here under a Creative Commons license, for which thank you very much!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>s you may know if you&#8217;ve crossed paths with me here or elsewhere in the last year, I sorta-kinda retired in July, 2018, after 39+ years in computer-related stuff (principally programming)&#8230; and then returned to work a few weeks later. The real retirement &#8212; this time, one for which The Missus will join me &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","h5ap_radio_sources":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4948,4949,250],"tags":[1866,3526,4950,4951],"class_list":{"0":"post-21299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-temporarily-expatting","8":"category-retirement","9":"category-art","10":"tag-travel","11":"tag-retirement","12":"tag-plans","13":"tag-making-the-gods-laugh","14":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/takeoff_aaronhockley_thumb.jpg?fit=400%2C500&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kZSG-5xx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21299"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21309,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21299\/revisions\/21309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}