07 July 2009

Things are falling into place!

July 4 was my last ever paid holiday (or, if you think about it, in retirement every day is a paid holiday). Then, best news, yesterday we met with Dan's oncologist and he told us the last scans came back completely negative! Six months ago he had told us there were some "spots" on one lung and one on his liver that they were monitoring; this visit he told us that both were stable and benign. He doesn't need to see Dan for a YEAR! (That's forever in cancer terms) Dan is "medically boring" and we spent half the visit talking about sailing! Last month we got the boat survey (equivalent to getting your house appraised) and the surveyor was extremely pleased with the boat. The word "substantial" appeared seven times in his writeup and he described the boat as suitable to cross oceans, even though at this point we only plan to sail coastally. He also increased the estimated value of the boat; it may be that we have one of the highest, if not the highest, value for boats of this type. New insurance is in place with the new higher value added.

I had always promised myself I wouldn't be one of those people who just counts down the days to retirement, I want to do something important for my salary. Mostly I've been very able to do that ... until I finished my SI report last month. Knowing that that report is the last major contribution I'm likely to make in the field of science in public decisionmaking, it's been very difficult for me to stay motivated once I turned it in to my boss. Now, I'm not counting ... but I have 22 more days in this office (3 per week, except the week of 11-13 Aug I'll be downtown.)

1 comment:

Playful Grace said...

Awesome! And sounds as though we'll have a lot to celebrate this weekend! :)