Good bye to all at my old job!

Starting in San Jose was great and there are many old GH'ers here in HQ now. Whacking the DPCS on the shin with an aluminum baseball bat during a game of softball (it was an accident!)...Donna and I inviting ourselves on Karen's Hawaii vacation...numerous trips outside the building to vent about something or other (thank you to all of my counselors)...becoming the self-appointed bathroom monitor when our TP supplies kept running out...Numerous happy hours and going away dinners at the Bold Knight and elsewhere...The Administrator (now retired) and my roommate flirting at Kim and Carol's going away dinner.

Then it was up to Oakland and a short stint as a specialist.

Next it was across the Bay to San Francisco and many happy years with various teams there..."if offered assistance at the scene GO to the hospital IN the ambulance"...conflict over the microwave...stalking Victoria on Muni and making people cry on the first day and "aluminum IS a metal" (not me!)...astounding the caller who was trying to sell bathing suits when he called in the 2nd year of no sales (not me!)...purging files...attempting to train Victoria on the "new" registration system...I am not a morning person...camping with Suzanne, Suzanne's oldest boys, and Donna...fighting with raccoons...many Christmas parties...Larry's going away party...Jackie drinking TWO long island ice teas at lunch (not me again!)...stick furniture...the front counter staff letting me "help" Mrs. R who promptly told me about the landlord putting viruses in her food and she couldn't live on rum and coke and cigarettes and could we help her (no windows in the office then!).

Lastly it was up to HQ to work on training for the IRIS project and ending up in TSD. What an exciting ride! Vultures...making Scott and Jodi and Barb travel the state doing demos...Hot list tickets...Technology Governance Group...ITS (data conversion? we don't need no data conversion)...Redistricting 1, redistricting 2, redistricting 3...Production Printer...Y2K and I'm still irked that the agency couldn't provide free parking access in the building for the many business staff here on New Year's Day making sure that the systems would be up and running on Jan 2...many, many lunches with Scott and Shirley and Barbara P...BI reorg...Dolphin Tek...moving to the 7th floor.

And now it's the last hours. My Documents and my personal drive are clean. I'm just going through the last 109 emails in my In Box...the rest are deleted. My cubicle is sort of clean. My Desktop is clean. All the work, the pages and pages of "stuff", the spreadsheets, macros, deleted or saved or sent to someone who might find it valuable someday. I've made notes for all the tasks I'm leaving for someone else to finish.

I'll be keeping in touch and probably attending Christmas lunches, retirement dinners, and BECA events.

It's been an enormous pleasure working with all of you and I wish you the best of everything as I embark on my new adventures!