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Last day today! I’ve turned everything in but my ID which gets handed to the police desk on the way out the door. Freedom begins at 6:30 PM!

I think reputation wise bowdoin is kind of like a “little ivy” similar to Amherst. Great colleges in Maine!

He’s giving them to all of us. Seems like too much effort to me...

What’s with all these weenies from mersky?....lol.

Thank you! Up to Vermont weekend after next. Maybe some early snow?

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!

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.

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.

Wow!

Randoph, NH must avenge 130-140?

I'm going to do some time in Stowe at some point. Freak needs to get a real estate license so I can give him some business. I was in LA for 15 years and started interviewing for jobs on the east coast. The first one was DC and my perspective was it snowed plenty considering where my prior 15 years were. But the concept of upslope and synoptic snow on so many days is really appealing to me. Plus summers are really nice. Damn-8 more work days-and I'm waiting for HR to mess this up......gotta baby sit every process. Taxes in VT are really high though. Here, a big chunk of my retirement income is exempt from state income taxes and property taxes in my town are not bad at all.

Thanks man! However I should point out that I was meticulous last winter-it’ was easy and unfortunately not frequent... My only weak spot will be if I have to get up after doing euro pbp to measure. I may miss an early AM report but wth-if it’s snowing that hard I’ll just wait for it to stop before sleeping...,lol. It turns out the side work gig is now only 1 day per week. When I found out I rejoiced...lol.

So the "bodies in the streets" thing. I'm almost done with the book-"The Great Influenza" by John Barry. 1918-19 was some off the wall shit. Literally bodies in the streets. Dead people rotting in many homes. It's the equivalent of 1.5 million dead in the current pandemic. Really frightening with the same responses by many in government although medical science was nowhere close to what it is today. Great read.

Boulder is higher vs Denver so I think it’s a lot more common. Boulder averages 85 inches of snow per winter.

Yeah that’s how it used to be here but covid brought enough resources so they can do it normally this time. Gonna be surreal not having all these devices that required the security of Fort Knox...lol.

Thanks Jeff! That’s my first thought. Although I do have this job that may be up to 16 hours/week so not completely unbound but 2 days on/5 days off seems doable especially since part of the 2 days is from home.

Did they find your replacement for you to train? Mine feel into place and for the rest of the month I’m transitioning. Congrats!

Congratulations Thank you!

Not yet. Too pleasant imby.

15 more work days as a full timer. Out the door 9/30/2020 unless the national Retirement Center drops the ball...lol. I've been promised.

Yes. Most of it from round 2.

Good luck. It will have to be a pretty quiet rest of the month to be that low but it certainly can happen. Obviously I hope you’re wrong but I respect the methodology.