Thank you :) It's the right thing to do; just now. Stepping back, breathing, and letting the noise be noise elsewhere. Right now, my pharma company in Cambridge is a damn fine place for me. It's been 3 weeks now and I don't really count the first because it was kickoff and workshop week. But I understand now how they got those vaccines out so fast and I feel pretty good about how they got there.

Yup. Me too. My stuff is contained in a packed 5x7 storage unit, a 12x12 bedroom that also serves as an office, and the corner of the workroom I've turned into a sewing space. Mike still holds what remains of the family furniture, a gazillion sets of china NO ONE is ever going to want and a ton of smaller family things from my mother. He's got my rocking chair also and I hope he's using it now and then.

I definitely got it wrong because now I'm not finding it :D I pulled an address off the web and must have transposed something. I *thought* Toys R US closed all brick and mortar locations and didn't expect anything at all. I also failed to note that the address is Scottsdale which is funny as hell (to me) because I spent so much time there in the early 90s - I agree, Scottsdale folks aren't likely to be wrangling their own carts which is even funnier (to me). And there's another data point! Late summer, 1992, I went to work for a company called Mountain States Software that produced agent/carrier software for the independent insurance market. I wish like hell I could remember the address (maybe it will come to me). In any event, a company called Delphi acquired MSS in 1994 (roughly) and a company called Sapiens acquired Delphi in July of 2020 - based on some very loose interwebs investigation. All of this is fodder for some VERY funny stories about me loose and bored out of my mind in the city. There was a hotel/motel/long term suite sort of thing used mostly by Mayo clinic family members and I wish I could remember that one too because some damn wild shit went down on that location. Truthfully, while I don't miss the coast to coast commute, I do miss AZ.

The world's a lot smaller than it looks on a map :) I sure hope this link works. Five lines at 11 PM on a Saturday night. Montpelier, population <8,000 https://fb.watch/cxpkCiMIa1/ (that's the only video I've seen but there have got to be others)