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Today may have been my last day of driving to the office.
Middletown shares Aquidneck Island with the Town of Portsmouth and the
City of Newport. To get there I have to cross the Jamestown Bridge (the
neighbor to the one that they blew up last year -- see Blowing up a bridge 04/17/06 and What a blast! 04/20/06).
This picture is on the second bridge I have to cross, the Newport Bridge.
As you might expect in a coastal area, we can get a bit of morning fog. |
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I started working in this building on October 16, 1995 and made that daily
commute across those bridges until about four years ago. Instead of working
from home once in a while, I began to do it a day or two each week... then
I began going to the office once a week, then maybe once every two or three
weeks... Now they're closing this site, so I will be working from home
every single day. |
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My desk is empty, my file cabinets are empty, everything has either been
discarded or brought home. I finished my final emptying and discarding
a bit past eleven, stuck my laptop into my backpack and left the office
for what will probably be the last time. (So when I do eventually retire
-- which I hope is still a few years away -- there will be no formal "last
day at the office." Today was my last day.)
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When I was a full-time Dilbert cube dweller, I would sometimes come down to this beach -- Easton's Beach (usually called "First Beach" by locals -- to run at lunchtime.
I took this picture standing at the western end of the beach with Newport's
Cliff Walk behind me. The beach is a bit over half a mile long, the far end lost in the fog. (If you look closely just above the soccer players you can almost see the upper edge of a Ferris wheel at a carnival that is camped in one of the beach parking lots.) [Google space photo of beach]
And then I headed home... |
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Driving in bright sunshine on a bridge that disappeared into pale white
fog as it crossed Narragansett Bay.
This is something I have seen a number of times -- sometimes the fog looks
almost solid white, but today it was already burning off (well, it was
almost twelve noon) so the effect was more that of a bridge that just disappeared
rather than of a bridge leading to a white cloud.
The picture below shows how the superstructure of the bridge finally appeared
out of the mist (although it still looks a bit ghostly). |
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