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Oh god. This post. its everything. The 37 heats for just 8&U when you wish they would pre-test kids to see if they can even swim let alone a length of a pool. Where they start and you can walk up to the snack bar, order one of everything, wait 5 min for the grill guy to make a burger into a hockey puck and still get back to the pool to time them touching the wall. And the chatter among parents. "Oh, did you see Billy swim? His back was TERRIBLE!!" "Well, my kid Francesca, just swam a 28.45 last week which is 0.00000002 better than last week and now she will get to swim an A meet over that dirty faced girl with the parents that dress from Ross!!" And the jerk ass parents that DO NOTHING each and every meet despite having 5 kids that always DQ on breast stroke because they brain fart and start swimming freestyle after the flip turn. Its ok, lazy parents, just start at your phone all meet and yell a tepid "woo, go child #2!" while the few that help every week stand there melting. Having a B meet canceled due to storms is one of the best feelings ever. But I also remember being at an all-stars and right during warm-ups there were storms and nothing better than sitting in a stiffling hot car for an hour waiting because they ain't calling off an all-stars and it was resumed once the deluge had ended. I am with you, brother. Just call me Salty McSaltface every monday when we have a B meet. No one to blame but myself tho. I could have been a lazy ass parent and NOT volunteered to be chief timer. Imma dumbass.

Kids have a swim meet tonight. I'd be cool if it stormed this evening. Otherwise its 4 hrs in the heat.

And ALMOST late side of the 30s? Puhlease

I sound like a bag of microwave popcorn when I kneel down on the ground. I snort lines of advil after I exercise. When it rains my left elbow flares up. I get vats of lotion to deal with my ashy ankles(that what your fave troll say they look like). And don’t get me started on how much Metamucil I take.

So I’m just bordering on oblivion? Or have I entered the void?

If I keep doing these gd exercises I do to stay healthy I won’t make it to retirement.

But my family thanks you!! Just disconnect the sewer and put an outhouse in the back. Free garden fertilizer!!

Thank you. I like that you say I'm young. Clearly @mappy is wrong calling me old all the time. I don't blue plate special yet. But gonna spend time at the diner every morning chatting to the war vets over coffee. Its a new adventure coming and i just want to enjoy the hell out of it.

mods please lock thread. Its over.

Wasn't the goal back when I started. It was live paycheck to paycheck and scrape enough together to get a car and house and keep a roof over my family. Could have made more money elsewhere but knew by staying this goal would be closer. My dad won $100 lottery once. He gave me 50 cents. I turned that into the multi-dollaraire empire you see before you now. Can't see it? Neither can I.

Thank you! Absolutely nothing. I’m not looking for another job right away. I just want to see how it goes. I do plan to spend more time on the eastern shore. But with 2 kids still to finish HS I’m not going anywhere Thank you! I’m cool with all those things

AOL and frozen orange juice futures.

another nice morning

Thank you both. It will be a huge change but one that I know will be a positive one

Dude. you have no idea how many times I have used the police partner just about to retire then gets swiss cheesed on the last call for a break in to my boss. I told him he best not send me out on one last job where I'm playing frogger or on top of this

Thank you both. The finish line is oh so close. But the only maps I will make are snowstorm maps, I mean tropical maps with snow for PSU

I'm retiring after 50 years of summer cicadas. 50 Broods would put me at Gandalf age and I haven't found a magic elixir that does that yet. Beer is close. Thank you!! Scary and exciting at the same time.

Drinking beer is def busy work. But the to do list is long and will take a while. First thing I have to do is paint a kids bedroom. Goodbye little girl pink and hello teenage.....off white.

I really am lucky and I don't take it for granted. But I've worked damn hard to get here. 28 years of working in the hottest of hot and coldest of cold, dodging traffic and dealing with ticks, dogs, black widows and working on top of an 80 ft dam. Its just time.

Thank you!!!! I'm still in a lot of disbelief that its happening

How can I be old when I am told I am too young to retire? Something does not compute.

Exactly 30 days from today I get to do something very few people at my age get to do. Retire at age 50.

What a great morning. Cool and just nice out.

The county built a big dyke down near Huntington to prevent that one area from flooding so maybe it will pay off for these rain events. Wolf Trap has a valley effect in places so that won't get any better with all the paving and storm drains. Your hood is just low to begin with. If y'all were a few feet lower you'd almost be tidal. lol I'm just getting frustrated with my VP2 wx station. Its old. Like 15 years old. And the rain collector gets clogged too easily and not sure its measuring precip accurately anymore

It was a given that their time above ground would be short lived compared to their 17 year dirt nap. Looks like the show is over and all we have left are the shells, husks, carcasses to remember them by. And the smell. Nature gave us a show for a few weeks. Now I just want to make it to the next time they decide to pop up and sacrifice themselves to windshields and hungry @mappy dogs