{"id":3620,"date":"2010-09-03T09:06:10","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T13:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=3620"},"modified":"2010-09-03T09:14:41","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T13:14:41","slug":"please-enjoy-the-long-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=3620","title":{"rendered":"Please enjoy the long weekend. Be happy to be alive. I am."},"content":{"rendered":"

They did an experiment. Can you be happy with only 100 things?<\/p>\n

I travel with fewer than 100 things.<\/p>\n

Maybe there is merit here?<\/p>\n

I went through my closet. I’m giving away everything I haven’t worn in the past 12 months. That’s my new rule.<\/p>\n

My closet is emptier. I’m free.<\/p>\n

To celebrate, I played 2 1\/2 tennis.<\/p>\n

William Kennedy, a reader, emails:<\/p>\n

I am 80. Friday, Saturday and Sunday I have very nice breakfasts, diner, museum trips, political affairs to attend. Yes, all my friends are gone but my days are so busy I fall into bed to sleep. About 3 hours 5 days a week are taken uo at the Y in swimming 800 meters, treadmill 45 minutes fast enough to jog 5 or 6 minutes, and 40 minutes of weight lifting. I had my aortic valve replaced with a cow’s 2 years ago at Johns Hokpins. Busy and fun and love evry breathing minute tha ‘s what you MUST do.<\/p>\n

This weekend, my wife and I have nobody to entertain, except ourselves. Think of all the exciting things we can do, like rest and not think about the stockmarket, the economy . I can even finish editing the wedding’s photos. Maybe I’ll watch a little tennis. Remember the US Open is on The Tennis Channel, ESPN2 and maybe CBS. You’ve got to fiddle it, since their broadcast schedules change.<\/p>\n

It’s great to be alive.<\/p>\n

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Harry Newton who wonders why manufacturers always discontinue making the products he\u00a0 likes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They did an experiment. Can you be happy with only 100 things? I travel with fewer than 100 things. Maybe there is merit here? I went through my closet. I’m giving away everything I haven’t worn in the past 12 months. That’s my new rule. My closet is emptier. I’m free. To celebrate, I played […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}