Yesterday was my last day at Fluke Networks. Now I’m off to Michigan for a week. I’ll be back in Seattle August 6 to put my stuff in storage and then take a little time off.
My last day was very busy, but good. I didn’t get near what I thought I would get done. Between all the goodbyes and wrapping little stuff up here and there, the time goes by too quickly. It wasn’t until I realized I needed to clean the remaining personal stuff off my Mac that I knew I’d be there later than I wanted to be. I guess saving what I absolutely had to do before I left until last ensured that. Sitting there, deleting accounts and bookmarks and removing keychain passwords, thinking, wow I am not coming back here next week. Or the week after. At all! Sweet!
Thanks everyone for the years of good work and for the nice good-bye’s and well-wishes. I will miss the people around the office, but I won’t miss the office. Or the commute. Or the crapeteria. Or PMS 1235 and PMS 534. Or lots of other things I’ll keep to myself …
My friend Peter forwarded this to me yesterday:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3934788900154749704
Enjoy!
I’m off to the airport.
Three days left at Fluke Networks.
Whew.
Wow! I can not wait! hooo hoo hooooooo!
I am so looking forward to the freedom and the challenge of life on my own. It will be so interesting!
Today, there was a farewell lunch with some of my colleagues. I sat next to Irina, who’s responsible for much of my traveling inspiration, and across from Dan. We had some decent food. Sat outside on a deck overlooking Silver Lake. It was nice. Clint made an announcement and toast to me, thanking me again and praising me for the contributions I’ve made. I thanked him and smiled. Then they asked me for my plans and I made them all envious! 
Tomorrow is another busy day. So many loose ends to tie up.
From today’s press briefing:
Q: Tony, not to bring up last week’s news, but the issue of whether embryonic stem cell research is murder came up yesterday on “Meet The Press.” You said, I believe, last week that some people regard this as murder and the President is among them.
MR. SNOW: Yes, well, I –
Q: Does he believe this is murder?
MR. SNOW: I overstepped my brief there, and so I created a little trouble for Josh Bolten in the interview. And I feel bad about it. I think there’s concern. The President has said that he believes that this is the destruction of human life.
Then Mr. Snow blabs for a bit, and delivers the kicker:
But the President certainly does not oppose the promise of pluripotency. The President certainly does not oppose stem cell research. But he does find—he does have objections with spending federal money on something that is morally objectionable to many Americans. I will go ahead and apologize for having overstated—I guess, overstated the President’s position.
So, if, according to our genius president, an embryo constitutes “human life”:
It’s NOT OK to allow the use embryos for research beneficial to humans. But, it IS OK to allow the US Military to maime, wound, torture and kill thousands of innocent Iraqis? What about that is not the destruction of human life? Already living and breathing human life, rather than embryos that could potentially (but not definitely) become a human life. We spend billions and billions on the war and American soldiers are dying! What’s not “morally objectionable” about that?
How many Americans find the FEDERAL MONEY he is spending on this failure of a war morally objectionable? I would assume there are far more people who morally object to the war than who morally object to stem cell research. But that doesn’t matter, not in Bush’s democracy.