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At work, a “show stopper” was removed from the main effort I need to finish before leaving so I’m suddenly “up to here” with things I can accomplish. Consequently, the work-days this week – today, tomorrow and then Friday – should pass very quickly.

Here are two links worth preserving. … might wanna use them someday:

In school, I learned that good engineering can be done once but to consistently build things well, you need to write down the process you are following, and then repeat that process each time.

• Number of work days (counting today) until I retire,
• Winner on your first throw of the dice, loser any throw thereafter,
• Number of age spots on the back of my left hand [TMI?], and
• an extremely unusual “beats per measure” in music (very likable example here).

“Hey you, get back to work!”

I found what I think is a good briefing on the issues in an article (click here). It lists six stages:

• 7:00AM Quick blog (hence, the total absence of profound – deal with it)
• 7:30AM Face rake, shower, teeth, clothes – yesterday’s jeans are fine but I’m two days into that shirt and going out in public; that has to change
• 8:00AM Road – Wow, so this is what “rush hour” is like – I remember this!
• 9:00AM Mayo Clinic, Prevnar 13 shot, ban the bad pneumonia
• 9:30AM Road (approx.)
• 10:30AM Walgreens – Decaf is on sale; clean ’em out
• 11:00AM … uhm, close enough – *s*l*o*w*l*y* fix something for lunch
• Noon - “Show up” at the office and try to look productive – when you’ve worked from home for twenty years, this is a total no-brainer
• 4:30PM - Knock off early. I’m retiring soon, you know?

For the past several months we’ve been amazingly busy getting everything ready. Social security and Medicare B had to be started, there were supplemental medical policies to evaluate, choose and apply for coverage, as well as dozens of other things.

Work, that is. I turned in my notice today. As of New Year’s day 2015, I will no longer be a full-time employee.

Today’s chuckle courtesy of my Android tablet’s spam filter:

Terri is the middle child in our family. That’s her in the light-colored coat and hat in the foreground.