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I accept that assignment!

Yeah I’ve been feeling the anxiety for weeks....just allowing it to happen....a good winter will be helpful! Summer of 2020 was stolen from me and if I’m lucky enough to make it to summers in the future that won’t happen again!

Thanks Steve! Kinda surreal now....after looking forward to this day for decades it’s here!

Maybe we can combine 2010-11 with 1995-96 and go Thanksgiving to April!

What I’ve done going forward-retiring with my last day Wednesday the 30th- is to manage risk. So to avoid all the hassle of schlepping, I opted out of face to face care in my retirement gig. Spoke to the authorities there and was asked “are you ok working remotely but only 1 day a week?”. Am I ok? I’m fukking ecstatic! One of my assignments is to develop remote care options-something I’ve provided for millions in the system I’m retiring from nationally for the past 16 years. A lot of people want my services so I need to be careful-time is what I’m looking most forward to-that and euro pbp in mid winter in the middle of the night...lol.

True. But we now know that some people are long termers n the effect and it’s nearly impossible at this point to decide who. The best bet is to use common sense and so many 18-30 year olds don’t.

I’m on the ginxy train. We were the only ones in 2010-11 also.

Gorgeous NNE and some SNE pics! Hopefully hold it into next weekend for the lakes region and white mtns.

Face timed with our daughter last night. She stated colors are fabulous up there. I’ll be in NH next weekend for our annual men’s weekend (45 years and running!). We’ll head up to VT late week-around the 7-8th depending on my wife’s work schedule... Seasons changing-but for now back to shorts.

Nope. 1800 life expectancy from birth in India was 25. China was 32 in 1850. Will post the link if needed later or tonight

I’m observing my local squirrels rapidly fattening up.

Fallacy. It took my awhile ro reconjure falsy....back to adolescence i generally agree but make no mistake-life before modern medicine (antibiotics, vaccination for diseases like polio) was very hard and often unpleasant. “What’s it leave in....what’s it leave out”-Bob Seger in “Against the Wind”.

He’s still a young man....pity....

So you’re arguing a time when lifespans were <40 and a cut from a fungal infused branch you incurred while clearing from your lot and died from was better?

Ithaca,NY. Taghannock Falls

Reinfection would most assuredly result in miler presentations such that over a relatively short time no one will need to mask. One of the reasons postulated from the 1918-19 pandemics that affected young people seemingly more severely is the fact that 30 years prior...not sure the year but it could have been 1888 or 1890 a similar but milder flu went through the population. The older people had some immunity such that if they got the 1918 version, the presentation was much milder. This isn’t the flu but my guess is the worst is absolutely over and hopefully I’m right.

As is often the case

Really nice write up Ray. Tough call!

Sorry to hear this Jeff. One of life’s worst assignments.....damn...

Wow that rain would be really nice! 10 more calendar days-definitely experiencing the agitation with the impending big change....want to get tot he other side...

Meh- our annual burner review is January. Once a year should be ok. I’m not worried about it. In any case, no heat needed so far-chilly our but ok in. Re shorts: Bad examples using running and hiking. Both of those activities are shorts unless it’s winter. Holiday dinner outdoors with fire pit keeping us warm. No shorts.

We like comfort. Never understood the need to prove you’re ok being miserable...

This will likely be the earliest I’ve had to turn on the furnace in a very long time. Only to turn it off a few days later...

Redux of last year?

Not an unreasonable prog at this point..