This is it. I am finished. Yesterday, after 40 years, 7 months and 21 days of continuous Federal government service, I hung up the spurs. Let the younglings do it.

Besides being our retirement day, it also was my birthday. My present to myself. J Joyce and I rented a stretch limo and did an Irish pub-crawl around Baltimore. What made it better was that we woke up the next morning without a hangover. What a wonderful way to celebrate. Today starts the rest of our new lives.