You still accomplished a lot of stuff there, John. For me, it's just a bit of mental strain or guilt that's the hardest thing to deal with these days for me. I was thinking I should look back more on what I did get done for mental comfort.
45 years here too. Things sure change. We sit in different rooms a lot of times and are on different computers, or just reading. But instead of texting each other, we holler through out the house like a couple of morons. "Come here and look at this! What? What'd you say!? I can't hear you!" But neither one of us moves from our spot. We hold our ground then act like we really didn't hear the other summoning, lol. Good times! Sorry, I went off topic. One thought leads to another.
Us too, I'll be out on the porch and she is in another room, or one of us will be in the yard and y'all do sound like us. Lots of the time I either don't hear or can't make out what she said. I may have gotten us off topic, like you said one thing leads to another thing.
I've been playing guitar (and other instruments) for 45-50 years. In early 2021 I got sudden, severe arthritis in my wrists then hands. I had to retire and sold all my instruments in June that year. Trying to play anything was out of the question. I could barely brush my teeth because of the acute pain. As the months went on though, the pain started to ease. And now most of the pain is gone, but I still have some stiffness in my index fingers when I curl them up. So my left hand remains edgy when playing guitar, I can't really do what I used to do, so I don't play much anymore. I used to play pretty much every night, now I pick it up (it's always on a stand, an arm's length away) and play for a bit and get discouraged cuz of all of the mistakes I make. I never really had any hobbies other than that.