This will never do…
SIX Weeks!! Where has the time gone? Oh yeah, retirement ceremony, getting a new job, starting my three week interlude vacation, ripping the carpet out of my son’s room and putting in laminate hardwood, putting new furniture there, working in the basement and on the fairy playset, the tornado that destroyed Cian and Cathy’s house (they came to live with us), starting my new job…but still…six weeks is WAY too long to go without writing. What happened to all the people who were supposed to scold me? :-) Even my hasselbot hasn’t been sending me emails to tell me to write. So I guess I’ll just have to find the mental fortitude to do it myself.
I LOVE my new place of work. Granted, it’s only been two days (Friday and Tuesday) and it’s still the honeymoon period, but everything works, the people are nice, the work suits me, and the commute is ten minutes less than my old job. I am thrilled. I even get to walk through a beautiful park in downtown DC from my car to my building. What could be better? (I suppose that walk won’t be pretty this winter, but this is the honeymoon, we’ll get to the winter when we get to it).
My retirement ceremony was beyond description. LTG Maples was a remarkable speaker, though I’m still not sure who he was talking about, my colleagues made a slideshow of pictures of my life (set to music) that set me to tears, and the retirement picnic on the weekend was a blast. Perhaps when I am more distant from the emotions of the day…I can describe it better. Meanwhile, I have to sort through all the little notes that I have about things I should be writing about. Oh yeah…I still have to get the good COL out of the nexus…
May 27th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
’bout time…
Glad you are enjoying your honeymoon. Just wait until they are back in session. I noticed you said the work suit’s you. But how does the suit, suit you? No more epaulets for you!
May 28th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
I did consider nagging you, but it would have seemed ungrateful.
We look forward to following the adventures of The Good Colonel.
The retirement was very impressive, but no more than you deserved. It was interesting to meet all the different people at the party. A fun group to be with, regardless of the compartment from which they came.
I am glad you are enjoying the new job and hope you continue to do so.
May 28th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
So much was happening during those six weeks that I just couldn’t bring myself to nag you.
I figured you’d write something after you started the new job.
June 2nd, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Tornado! Cian and Cathy! that is just devastating. Here I was worried about your home and looked up the path of the tornado in relation to it. Didn’t know where C&C lived, though.
So…what IS the job?
June 3rd, 2008 at 11:19 am
We are unapcking at the new house now. We lost a little stuff, and it was very scary, but we came through pretty well. We would not have come through as mentally intact as we have without Richard, Juanice, Cian & Erin.
It HAS been another whole week, BTW.