It's good to hear all of you active in this group again. As much
as I am in to communication, I have not yet gotten excited about
facebook although Beverly just about lives on it so I am quite
aware of its potential.
There hasn't been much going on in my life that you
would find interesting with maybe one small exception.
I have been in a real quandary for some time. My work
group along with the other 145 or so employees of Information
Technology at OSU should be getting our own new building in
March of 2015. There is not one thing about this that I am happy
about. I have been working in the same job for 23 years this
month and, when I came here, we usually got our own offices even
if they were sometimes rather small.
This has worked well for me because I can listen to my
computer jabber away all day without having to wear a headset to
keep from bothering others.
When we get this new building, I have been told it's
going to be cubicles and headsets for all. They are going to
slap this thing together as cheaply as possible just to say
they've done something.
On top of all that, it is not going to be a very
walkable route from my house. It is actually closer, but it is
a somewhat circuitous route around some apartments and then
across a very busy street. Not impossible by any means, but a
royal pain in the back side. It reminds me of starting all over
again.
The quandary is exactly what to do next.
When we actually move over to what I have started
thinking of as "the chicken coupe," I will be 63 and eligible to
retire. It is a little early for my tastes as I am basically
healthy and full of energy but the real hit is financial.
In the United States, we do have partial health care
coverage for people beginning at age 66 but before that, one
usually gets his or her insurance through their work place. If
you leave or lose your job, you can continue the insurance you
had but you have to pay for 100% of it yourself and so that cost
adds to your expenses each month.
I am keeping an ear to the wind to see if there might be
any opportunities I could take advantage of in the central
campus for those roughly 2 and 1-half years before I reach 66.
The university is trying to move all the support
operations like IT out to the edges of the campus which makes
a certain degree of sence, but the problem then becomes that
getting from there to anywhere else requires wheels or is a long
walk.
I even asked about working in one of the buildings that
Iinformation Technology will still
have a presence in but was given the only word we seem to know how to say
around here which is "no." We are good at no.
Anyway, nothing is happening yet and I really like the
people I work with but I know the clock is ticking.
Other than that, life is good in this part of the world.
Martin
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