Congratulations on your retirement and all the best in the future. David Kreuter
________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System on behalf of Jeff Gribbin Sent: Mon 1/26/2009 6:41 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [IBMVM] Another day, another job (or, "The Song of the Gypsy Programmers") Friends, At the end of this week, my time with EDS will be up. I expect to be moving into some state of partial-retirement and, as-yet, it is unclear = whether or not, "IBMVM" will form a part of my professional future. (Indeed, it's unclear exactly what kind of, "professional future", if any= , I have in store). After a continuous 26+ years with Rolls-Royce and EDS, preceded by nine = years at Commercial Union, I am looking forward to the change with a high= degree of anticipation, coupled, of course, with some trepidation - intellectually we all know that the future is unpredictable no matter how, "secure" it may appear - but I believe that it's only at times in ou= r lives like this that we truly appreciate that fact! Being a part of, "VM and the VM Community" has been a huge part both of m= y professional and my personal life, and it's not something that one can = just casually walk away from - I suspect that, like many before me, I shall be - at the very least - "lurking" on IBMVM for some time to come -= but no longer as [email protected] - this address will terminate as of= this weekend. So, at this crossroads, I'd just like to say, "Thanks folks - I could never, ever, have made it this far without you" and that I hope to maintain contact with the list in some way in at least the near future = even if, after this weekend, for the first time in over thirty-five years= , I'll no longer have a VM Login to call my own. (Maybe time to fire up VM/370 and Hercules ... <grin>) God Bless Regards Jeff
