Jeff, good luck luck on your "partial" retirement. A short while ago, I
was "partially" retired for 8 months! :-)
P.S. I still have my "VM - Virtually All the Time" t-shirt and sweat
shirt, but unfortunately, they seem to have shrunk over the years! :-)>
--
Dale R. Smith
Contractor
"How beautiful it is to do nothing and then rest afterwards."
- Spanish proverb
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 05:41:46 -0600, Jeff Gribbin <[email protected]>
wrote:
>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 hig
h
>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
our
>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
my
>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 o
f
>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
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