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The next half

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New Year's Eve. The day when people are either scrambling to get food and champagne for the evening's festivities or are contemplating what resolutions to make for the coming year - or both. For me, 2011 is the start of the next half century of my life. I was 50 in December. It was actually a wonderful way to end the year. 2010 was turbulent at work and in my stomach. At work, the knowledge that our department and in-house printing was going to cease to exist by summer was something we all had in the back of our minds. We were, however, all so old (I was the youngest at 49) to get worked up about it. Instead, the strategy was to do our jobs and behave in such a way as to make management realize they had some great people working for them; we did not complain and we did not sic our union on anybody (though they were apprised of the situation). Our representative from HR was impressed by our good cheer. She said it motivated HR to do everything in their power to help us sta

Wordless Wednesday - Red and green

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Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday - Chained near (not to) desk

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Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday - Ducks not in a row

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Wordless Wednesday - Winter sunset

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Wordless Wednesday - Freaky flame

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Wordless Wednesday