What s been a pleasant surprise to you in your ret…

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Here's a question for anyone who's been retired a year or longer. What was a pleasant surprise about retirement to you? A top pleasant surprise for me was that I went back to the hobbies that I loved as a little kid. I had completely forgotten in adulthood that I loved, like, inventing and science and stuff. At some point during my retirement, I started tinkering with stuff again. And just the absolute joy and abandon that I felt when I started doing that was shocking to me. And I was just talking to Amy about it this morning. My number one retirement hobby is just doing little nerdy things. Getting a Raspberry Pi and setting up a home assistant device. Or... The solar stuff. Or building my own router. Just little nerdy science-y things that I used to do when I was a little kid. I just always loved, like, science-y things. So I would have been in the third or fourth grade. I would try and build electric airplanes. And I didn't know what I was doing. My dad had got me a science kit. And it had, like, some electric motors and wire and resistors and things like that in it. I was convinced I was going to build a little electric airplane. I had no idea how airplanes worked or motors or anything else. But I just kept sticking stuff together, trying to make one. Of course, I never did. But, man, I was back in my room. I mean, hours and hours and hours just fiddling around with that stuff. And I had forgotten that until I started doing it again in my retirement. And I was like, this feels just like it felt when I was a little kid playing around with technology, thinking that I was actually going to make something. And I absolutely love it. But I never saw it coming. What's yours?