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Fourth day in a row in the Community Center pool - I waited until after sunset so all the golfers had gone home and I could take the short cut across the fairways. The first day I had no lung capacity and every sinus in my head hurt when I tried to swim a few feet below the surface. Now my lungs feel completely clear and I can get down to the drains (marked as 9 feet) with ease. I may have to start swimming laps.
 
My son sent me a link to Inc. Magazine's fastest growing companies, measured in 3-year growth as of 2016 --

3 Gametime 34,021% $48.8m Consumer Products & Services San Francisco

He's not a founder, but he was one of the first employees hired. He now manages a group of 14 or so people who all work from home. He is the only one in his group who actually has to go to work.
 
I stopped in at the Auto Club today to renew the registration on my wife's car. On the way out, I stopped at the desk and asked for an Oregon road map. The clerk asked if I was planning to be in the Monday traffic jam to see the eclipse. We talked about the hotels and Amtrak sold out, no economy-class rental cars available as far away as Sacramento, etc. She said they had been getting 15 or 20 people a day stopping in to get maps and tour books. It occurred to me on the way out that I could use the wife's car since she will still be away on business Monday. It's more comfy and gets better mileage than my truck, but it's not so comfortable to sleep in. I wonder how long the lines will be at Denny's.
 
In 1983, I joined SAI Technology Company (SAIT), a wholly owned subsidiary of Science Applications Incorporated (SAI). SAIT had a lot of technical and commercial success and once it was too big to qualify for small business consideration in government contracts, it was rolled into the mother company as an independent division during or soon after the reorganization of SAI to SAIC. In 1997, SAIC sold our division plus a few other pieces of the big company to Litton Data Systems. I tried to get back into SAIC itself (better benefits) and found a half-time internal consultant job (an employee without benefits, but with a salary increase instead) in 2000. For a time, I split my time between the two companies - Litton in the morning and SAIC in the afternoon. Then the project at SAIC (a pocket-size chemical weapons detector) got a boost in funding from DOD Special Ops funds, so I quit my morning job and went full-time to SAIC (besides more money, it was close enough that I could go home for lunch). About that time, Northrup Grumman bought all of Litton, so for a few weeks (I'm not sure how long) I was a half-time employee of NG. After the SAIC project was completed (2003) , I found a job at L3 Communications - a company that had been founded by splitting out parts of NG that they had acquired in mergers and wanted to divest. One of the parts of L3 was the SAIT-SAIC-LDS-NG division where I had been working post of 20 years. I worked in the same office suite, same labs, with much of the same staff, on the same projects that the division had been developing and selling before I left.

Sitting here quietly retired, I have been getting letters informing me of a class-action lawsuit by former employees against NG based on an accusation that NG improperly administered its 401(K) plan by charging administrative expenses to funds belonging to employees (I think). Today I got a letter telling me that the company has settled and I can submit a claim for part of the settlement. I think I may get a check for about 12 cents, but I guess I will have to fill out the form to find out.
 
espola said:
I stopped in at the Auto Club today to renew the registration on my wife's car. On the way out, I stopped at the desk and asked for an Oregon road map. The clerk asked if I was planning to be in the Monday traffic jam to see the eclipse. We talked about the hotels and Amtrak sold out, no economy-class rental cars available as far away as Sacramento, etc. She said they had been getting 15 or 20 people a day stopping in to get maps and tour books. It occurred to me on the way out that I could use the wife's car since she will still be away on business Monday. It's more comfy and gets better mileage than my truck, but it's not so comfortable to sleep in. I wonder how long the lines will be at Denny's.
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Probably fake news.
 
Words with Friends play - ACERBITY across an existing I, A on triple word, R on triple letter, T from a wildcard, Y on double word, plus 35-point bingo bonus = 137 points
 
First picture posted in my daughter's new cubicle --

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CBS Sunday Morning has an article today on Francoise Gilot, Picasso's one-time mistress, whom we sort of met the day of my second son's birth. She was married to Dr. Jonas Salk at the time, and her daughter had a baby the same day, in the same hospital, with the same Ob/Gyn, and then shared a semi-private room with my wife. When we visited the hospital the next day, I imposed on Dr. Salk, asking him to shake hands with the (20 months old at the time).
 
Hüsker Dü said:
You see that base as being stable enough? . . . and drainage is accounted for?
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It is lined with root barrier cloth and the floor is redwood fence boards with a gap at every pair, so it is soil tight but no not watertight. I might add some feet to the bottom midway down the span.
 
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