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I'll be saying the same exact thing around Christmas.
Are mortgage-burning parties still a thing?????
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There will be toasted marshmallows at Chez Vreihen in late December...diabetes be damned.....
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You know you're old if you survived
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...when you walk out of your place of employment for the past 38+ years for the last time, and snap pictures of things you've taken for granted for your entire adult life so you won't forget them.....
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Sorry. I imagine It’s a bittersweet day.
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The whole situation was involuntary, but at least they had the decency to make a few of us long-time employees small financial offers that we "shouldn't refuse" rather than being escorted out by security guards during the impending layoffs in a few weeks.
One of the benefits of being old is that we are a protected class in labor discrimination cases, so enticing people to leave voluntarily is probably cheaper than going through a few discrimination lawsuits. I'm too young for Social Security with a retirement account that's severely under-funded, so I guess that I'll have to write a resume for the first time since Reagan was in the White House one of these days. I did grab a souvenir as I closed my office door for the final time that seemed to be fitting for someone being tossed to the curb. Believe it or not, I had the same garbage can in my office since I started work there. I used a black magic marker to make it into an educational tool in 1985, and today's silly kids just look at it and scratch their heads because they don't understand computer science. It will certainly be a centerpiece in our Garage Mahal when we build it.....
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...when you buy a ticket for a concert and arrive late to avoid traffic and miss the opening act, watch the second act, and then leave early to beat the traffic and then watch a recent youtube video of the concert to see what you missed.
I did this last night with John Waite, Foreigner, and Styx. In my younger years, I would have arrived early and been the last to leave. |
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