Life has been somewhat crazy since we left Centralia six months ago, but we have hope that the pace of change is slowing a little. The Texas house is getting organized, fall classes are in full swing, and the kids have already bought their airline tickets to come home for Thanksgiving. My countdown clock for retirement is well under a year now, but the definition of retirement is changing rapidly. With the current state of world affairs, the wildly interesting things I am doing at work that actually could contribute at some non-insignificant level to the precision, repeatability and velocity of biological research, a similar story for the research on which I contribute at University of Nebraska, the added benefit associated with making money rather than draining retirement savings, and a desire to do something rather than nothing in my retirement, God willing and the creek don’t rise, I hope to be at this for a few years more. I am considering the idea of staying on at work until I finish my degree. Hopefully, that will be around the end of spring semester 2024. After that all bets are off, but with my current mindset, maybe I will continue both my UNL research and to consult part time at my day job.