I had a boss who swore by siestas. He has a snooze every day, right after lunch. He is now 86 years old, and he is still only semi retired. When he was my boss, he was 63 years old. I still remember walking to his office to have a chat over something, only for his EA to signal to me that it was nap time…

Yesterday, after we returned from lunch post St Alf’s, I walked the little fellow and then we came home and I said to Tress we needed to go to Bunnings to pick up a nut for the bolt on my mower. That nut had come off last week and I couldn’t find it. So we headed to Bunnings, picked up my $0.71 nut and bolt set (together with a washer) and when I got home, I felt tired, with the slightest hint of a headache. I decided to have a snooze. It was one of the best afternoon naps I remember, not that I can remember the last time I had a nap. Tress said I was snoring and when I woke, I was worried that I had overslept. I had in fact, only slept for some 20 minutes or so. I felt refreshed however, and resume our activities.

We had been packing our bigger car that we’ll be driving to Canberra in, in a couple of days. It is filled with clothes and boxes of kitchen stuff that we would lug with us when we head there for the settlement of the home we bought. Settlement is for 26/9 and on the day before, we’d do a prior inspection. The first leg of our transition would then be completed. Sort of.

We had a first “open inspection” of our Melbourne home on Saturday, and so we busied ourselves with some tidying and putting away our everyday stuff, so that the home gets into a presentation ready state. The marketing gurus had their way again and I am simply doing as I am told.

Later that evening, after the “open inspection” and the cleaning up after, we went out for some lunch, walked the little guy, then went home for the footy prelim finals between the Cats and the Lions. It was a ripper game – one of the best prelim finals I can remember. The Lions got up (yay) and will meet the Swans in the Big Dance on Saturday. One that we will follow from the Capital City.