I suffered through a rather painful transition from Lotus Notes to Google Apps at work the last five or six years I was there. About the time I retired, it looked like we were going to change to MS Webmail/calendar etcetera. I understand putting large purchases out for bids every so often, but do you have ANY idea…

Nope. It’ll be more like the movie Joe’s Apartment.

That’s HEDLEY!

I bought steel toed sneakers at Walmart a couple of weeks ago to avoid such things. I would title that photo “Lawnmower Toes”, cause that’s what you get for mowing the yard in flip-flops.

Yes, yes they can. The giant flying cockroaches here in Florida are capable of bench pressing Mini Cooper’s.

It’s the Treeless Protection Program!

Excuse me while I go hug my plumber. Dead toilets and water heaters magically disappear when he does stuff. I must go and kiss his ring now. I think I might know where he buries the bodies, but I ain’t telling.

I have a sad for you. Yikes.

Well then I won’t complain about having my plumber replace the 38 year old electric water heater in our new 1978 vintage  house. Four grand? Yeesh.

Correct on the timing. The house I grew up in was built in the 40s. I remember the original septic drain field being dug up and being replaced. Roots had destroyed the Terra Cotta piping and gone through everything else. Because Florida. The replacement was done in early 70s I think.

Maybe she’s just one of those people that shouldn’t be allowed to touch the computers. ;-)

Would only be better if first and second names were Oscar and Mayer.

Oh yeah, in addition to the old Polaroid I rediscovered last week, I also found one of our old Mavica cameras. I feel like an archaeologist. There’s also standalone dialup modems in there. LOL

An NSA contractor doesn’t assume that anything she does on computerized equipment at work is logged and tracked, easily traced? Yeeesh!

Going through boxes moving into our new house, I found an old Polaroid camera and a still sealed pack of film. I’ll be taking bids shortly at the spy auction in Prague.

Exactly. Rebuilding public water infrastructure is expensive, but damn, NOTHING compared to the medical care those affected folks will need later on.

That was actually my initial plan, about fifteen years back. Life happened, though. I don’t want the stress of the same level job again though. I’ll get back to work again after a while, or start my own business. I did promise Mrs. Wookie that I would start teaching her more in depth about computers and networking.

This times 1000. I was fortunate enough to get into an old style retirement plan before things went all newfangled. I had the option to switch plans many years ago. There are many reasons why I went ahead and retired not long after becoming eligible. All the factors came to point me to make the jump in 2016. It was…

Hey, now. That’s a status symbol in some areas. ;)

I’ve got the screen and extra computers and game systems laying around. Does anyone know where I can purchase a microwave with a seventy inch diagonal door? This is SO doable.