Perfect Storm

Posted by Thomas Alan Gray Aug 25, 2009

A perfect storm is a confluence of trends which all peak at the same time. Sounds a lot less exciting than it is.

Here are the trends which are confluencing (is that a word?) in my life right now.

• My wife is retiring this fall.
• According to the plan, it's time to sell the house and downsize
• This means shopping for a new house and talking to banks about a pre-arranged mortgage.
• My car is getting to the point of no return
• So we're debating whether to get a new SUV or a pickup truck to replace it, which means shopping for vehicles
• We've also been thinking of trading our little trailer in for a motorhome, or a fifth-wheel, or a something, so we've been looking at those.

The result, of course, is that we've spent the summer looking and debating and considering and avoiding decisions. We still have the old car, the old house, the old trailer. We don't know what we want.

Of course, in five weeks Wifey won't have the old job. Can't dodge that one.

Since we're past middle age, we can't consider this a mid-life crisis. Call it a three-quarter-life crisis.

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I got busy last week and did up a bunch of articles. Check out

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