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Chet,
Did y'all ever roll the TransAmericaTrail this past summer?



No, and I hate that. Too many irons in the fire. I think we're gonna head over to east Tennessee and pick up the eastern end and go as far west as time allows. Then ride it in sections. I'd love to do it straight through but it looks like Ruthie's time demands may be a bit tougher. She's been working PRN ("as needed") and could basically work as much or as little as she wanted and then just not work when we wanted to take a long trip.

The new job isn't a done deal but the people in charge came to her and said that she is the one they wanted for it, so it looks like it's gonna happen. She's one of those people that is really good at whatever they do but once she's mastered a job she gets bored. Besides being able to 'fix' things, she doesn't care who gets the credit and can give criticism and make people feel good about receiving it so people like working with her. Really great communication skills. This is a position they have seemingly created for her to 'fix' a department, Clinical Informatics(is that even a real word?), that has been described as a 'mess'. She's pretty excited about it which almost surprises me as I didn't think she'd ever want to work full time again. She's been there a long time so she get a ton of vacation (8 weeks) if they plug her back into to seniority she had when left went PRN a couple years ago. They did last time.

Yeah, I'm a crazy lucky Dude, for sure. I don't take it, or her for granted, believe me. I know I can get a bit nauseating when I go on about her but she's amazing.

I HAVE considered the possibility that I'm living in a 'Matrix' tube being fed nutrients and living a fantasy. If so, please don't open the door.