> Ah. Unless one is gainfully self-employed, I believe we can all look forward to "Le Club Unemployment" at some point in our lives. Far gone are the days when one could expect a practially cradle-to-grave career with a suitably padded "soft-landing" pension plan from some Big Company.

True enough. That's a good way to look at it. :-)

> > I was pretty pleased with how the whole thing went.
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> Now you sound like Sam.... :-)

Why thank you!

> > As it turned out, by the time I was finished all my packing up, it was after 4:30. I had managed to squeeze everything into my bag except my framed diploma and my coffee mug, so I went next door to see if I could scam a ride home. (Go figure that the first day in a month and a half that I DON'T drive to work is the day I have to take all my stuff home. I love irony
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> If you can fit your entire working life into one flat briefcase (sans diploma and mug, which are by no means essential), then you're one of the most mobile persons I know. :-)

Note that I did not say "briefcase", but rather, "bag". I have a satchel, shoulderbag, whatever you want to call it. Normally, it is about three to four inches wide. With all my work stuff in it, it was pushing ten inches. Still, all I had in there were about five or six textbooks, three framed pictures, some contact lens solution and paraphenelia, my little "Happy Monday" statue, and my desk clock. Not too much, really. Maybe I _am_ exceptionally mobile. I'll have to work on that. :-)

> Heh. Sort of like the truly jovial reaction I had when my life's work in two labs, in two different cities, both got flooded out -- or when someone broke into my humble house abode to steal all our electronic and musical equipment and the TV and computer etc, etc. I think I described all this awhile back.
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> Wolf "is back" sprit

I will have to go look up that post some time.

Don "Is glad to see that Wolf is back. :-)" Monkey