If I Had Been Retired Today, #1

Who knows, this might become a thing, so I am preemptively numbering this Issue 1. The idea is to demonstrate the lost productivity due to having to catch up on personal financial literacy (i.e., FIRE, what other kind of personal financial literacy is there?)

If I had been retired today, instead of having to work a job to bring in money, I would have . . .

• Started in on outlining and writing a commentary for my kids on the Book of Proverbs. My 7yo is reading a lot now, and I've been wanting to write some legitimate theology books for her, on her level. And if I do them well enough, I'd be able to sell them, and make some money like that. I might even be able to get them illustrated, or do it myself with stick figures.
  
• Spent a good bit of time designing the information architecture and user flows on my Machete Press website. I have a number of things I want to do with it, including hosting audio and video and building a really nice online reading experience, and I'd have gotten a lot of really good traction today on figuring out exactly what I want in a full version if money were no issue.
• Made some substantial progress on the latest Machete Press books I'm working on publishing - a book on international relations and a book on economics geared toward teachers, written from a Christian perspective. I may even have wrapped up the current stage I'm at with both of those books and moved them forward into the next phase.

I did make a little bit of progress on the Machete Press books, and I might still be able to do a few minutes of wireframing, but it'll be a fraction of what I could've gotten done because I had to clock into the office for 8 hours and 15 minutes.