The "R" Word

jwhouk

jwhouk

I honestly think that the I-80 route is out. The part of the trip I'm most concerned about is the ABQ-PHX route. The options aren't nice that time of year (Flagstaff or Las Cruces?), and the one I'd ideally prefer is completely out (Holbrook to Heber to Payson to Phoenix).
 
jwhouk

jwhouk

I've been told by my section manager - who is a former Tempe resident - that since this is a La Nina year, it's unlikely we'll see much snow en route to PHX from ABQ. This may actually allow for an approach from Flagstaff if the Heber-Payson route is not available.

On the moving front: it's looking like about $4k or so to hire movers... :(
 
DarkAudit

DarkAudit

jwhouk said:
I've been told by my section manager - who is a former Tempe resident - that since this is a La Nina year, it's unlikely we'll see much snow en route to PHX from ABQ. This may actually allow for an approach from Flagstaff if the Heber-Payson route is not available.

On the moving front: it's looking like about $4k or so to hire movers... :(
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The drive from Flagstaff to Phoenix was one of my favorite trips. Great view and hardly used any gas going from 7000 ft to sea level in 145 miles.

What wasn't so fun was the drive from the TX-NM border to Flagstaff. Wind, wind, and more wind.
 
jwhouk

jwhouk

Funny, my wind moment was actually in the Panhandle. Wind caught the back door of my dad's SUV as the wife was getting out at a gas stop in Vega, sprung the door. We got it closed and locked so we could keep going. I think I had to get weather data from the airport across the freeway for my dad to give the insurance company to show how windy it was.
 
jwhouk

jwhouk

I should point something out: this isn't as much a "retirement" as it is "quitting my job but getting a monthly 'thank you for letting us exploit you for 24 years' check in consolation."
 
jwhouk

jwhouk

Sadly, I do have two actual days of work left. Out of that 33 hours and 56 minutes I have left* I will be working 24 of them.


*- But who's counting, right?
 
jwhouk

jwhouk

Yeeeup.

I have worked my last shift as an employee of the State of Wisconsin.

On January 6, I officially become a "retiree" of the state of Wisconsin.
 
jwhouk

jwhouk

I am now in the state of Arizona. Hopefully within a month or so, I will be a resident of the state of Arizona.
 
jwhouk

jwhouk

Two things:

1. The news I posted over in the politics thread means that LHS/CLS will be closing as a juvenile facility, but converted to an adult facility by year's end. In short - I got out JUST in time...

2. I am now no longer a DOC employee. I turned in all of my uniforms and my ID card. I'm now just a State of Wisconsin retiree.
 
jwhouk

jwhouk

I never thought today would actually come, but... I am officially no longer a State of Wisconsin employee.

I am now a State of Wisconsin retiree.
 
jwhouk

jwhouk

The old saying, "You never know how much stuff you actually have until you have to move" has never been truer.
 
jwhouk

jwhouk

I have all of my books packed up and ready to go. Only had one that I still had to find room for - and I managed to put it, right on top of all the others, on the top tote full of books.

Good thing that my copy of The City of Smoke and Mirrors fit...

;)
 
jwhouk

jwhouk

It's really setting in now: my first pension check will be officially deposited in my bank tomorrow.

I've got things pretty well set up here in the new place, though we still have a bunch of totes and boxes to go through (and find places for them).
 
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