How to fill time in retirement

 I am continuing to read but staying behind in my Goodreads Yearly Goal of 36 books. I have reached 22 books for the year but should be at 25. I have not gotten any further behind since my last post, but I have not caught up either. Regardless of the goal, here are the latest six books I have read. The Telling (#17) Fiction; by Ursula K. Le Guin; published in 2000; 264 pages; BJ Score 3.0  (Great) I was perusing at the library and saw this book by Le Guin. I liked her previous book, The Dispossessed, that I read in 2025, so I decided to try another by her. This one was great too. She has written lots of books, I know I will be reading more. It tells the story of Sutty, a Earth women sent to be an observer on the planet Aka, and her experiences of political and religious conflicts between a corporatist government and the indigenous resistance, which is centered on the traditions of storytelling, locally referred to as "the Telling" (for which the book is named).  Le Guin ...

 Nine more weeks have passed in 2026 and my dining quest continues.  One of my Favorite Places for a road trip in Sebastian (just 30 minutes away) First, the simple Stats... Statistics Current Weeks: 28-36   # NEW Restaurants:         Current:0   Total:7   Goal:8 # Different Restaurants:    Current:12  Total:50  Goal:36 Now I am behind on New restaurant by one and ahead on Different restaurants by 14. Here are the restaurants added since the last dining synopsis post... Obviously, since no NEW places, most of my visits were to places I go often, although this was the first visit to the establishment in 2026.  Visits : 9 Many and 3 Few Score : 3 Good to Great, 7 Great, and 2 Great to Excellent Type : 4 American, 2 Breakfast, and 6 others Here are a few pictures I took. I have added a caption for each photo with any relevant comment. Hemingway's in Melbourne - Cup of Conch Chowder - Guinness is on tap Hem...

 Since having become a member at Brevard Zoo, I make more visits and take more photographs. It becomes east to be overwhelmed by all the pictures. I currently have 484 Giraffe shots. Way to many. In organizing, I have learn to let a "good" shot go and delete. I only need to keep "great", "excellent", and "memorable". That is also too many. As I try to figure this out, I have come up with five different classes of Zoo shots: POSING: the animal appears to be posing for my photo EATING: the animal is eating something or looking for food RESTING: the animal is resting or napping or lying out of the Florida heat TRAINING: the animal is working with a keeper SEXY: the animal is about to have sex, is having sex, or wishing for sex Here are the latest Zoo visit photographs. Of course this is just a few. I usually take between 100 and 200 photographs in one visit. Many are repeats to get the "great" shot. As far as the sex, one of the Zoo's ...