I’d also recommend volunteering. I’m on boards for smaller public radio stations on both sides of the border described by the St Lawrence River. Radio nerd. You meet people who don’t necessarily have many interests in common but you do have that one connection. Creates lots of new relationships.

In the same spot. Graduated in 1991 and coming up on 23 years at this desk. Counting the months and weeks to go but it’s a useful job that’s turned into mentoring and pulling rabbits out of my hat because “no problem, we had to deal with the same thing in 2008… or was it or 2012?” Might stay late.

That’s one canny big right toe right there.

Exactly! Do a quick search of your posts comparing searches for NYT v Fox, for example.

You do know it’s true whether you do it or not, right?

Amateur mayos only, please!

We remember!

Yes, they were on my boycott list too.

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That looks one step away from the pontos room with the open connecting troughs set up that our late friend Martyn featured in a post from 2009. zythophile.co.uk/2009/12/24/p... That riverside building, BTW, is still there in Albany NY. Craig G and I poked around it when writing our 2014 book.

Her: “…and when (*sniff*) he had coughing fit when he reached for the Benylin…it sounded just like (*hack*) he said my name…” Her BFF: “…that’s got to be fate, Penelope!”

Do the rom com stars meet at a pharmacy in the cold remedies aisle, each horrified by their own exhausted disheveled appearance, strangers still drawn together by the common bond of drippy noses?

Same boat. I had extra duties until September and am now burning the days. Feels like napping too much on a winter weekend.