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In 1980 right out of college I took a job with IBM (job title "Junior Programmer") working on the operating system for the S/38. We coded in PL/MI - a custom language similar to PL/1. At the time IBM was an amazing place.
Now I'm employed by the Mayo Clinic (job title "Senior Analyst/Programmer") and have reached age 63.5 - where I can retire at any time if I wish, and use COBRA (an oddly named acronym for a program where I can pay the employer's cost for my benefits so that they continue for up to 18 months) to bridge to Medicare.
Just recovered from a mild case of COVID - and feeling like I have a world of choices ahead!
Best wishes from Minnesota!
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Welcome
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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Using COBRA is always better than CORBA[^] 
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Amen to that. CORBA was a nightmare.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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COBRA[^] wasn't a lot of fun either!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Instead Cobra[^] was a lot of fun 
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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So was COBRA[^].
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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And Alarm für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei[^].
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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And Cobra...
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Did you get a price for Cobra? It's expensive!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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It is expensive - but it's still an option. I don't have imminent plans to retire. I am starting to develop fledgling skills in antique radio repair after restoring my grandfather's 1936 Pilot.
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for those who are wonder about Continuation of Health Coverage (COBRA)
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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My experience says that you don't get to retire until your kids retire (if you have same). They think I have nothing to do. 
I don't know when I had time to go to work.
I am still doing some IT work part time, mostly IP surveillance cameras, NVR software, and managing a couple of ESXi servers. For said kids.
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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Monarch and Pres Wilson making sawdust. (11)
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Like it! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Just seen this - Nice one
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Since the regulars have already got it; and I have (finally) worked it out ...
Monarch = KING
Pres Wilson = WOODROW
Surprisingly, this is where I got stuck ... it obviously has something to do with Wood!
WOODROW + KING --anagram--> WOODWORKING
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Spot on! YAUT!
Some woodworkers of my acquaintance call their activity "making sawdust".
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
modified 8-Feb-22 7:37am.
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I actually solved this one in seconds! Now let’s see what yesterday’s looks like.
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I'm a fan of keyboard shortcuts and use them regularly with VS and VS code. One of them is shift+ctrl+d for Ghostdoc to add comments to a method. Today I accidentally pressed shift+ctrl+t and discovered the find file feature I should probably just have a look at the shortcut cheatsheet 
I also recall activating a f.lux color scheme that turned my display a strange hue of pink iirc. That was a fun one to track down, since I didn't know that I caused it by pressing some hotkey combination.
Have you found any cool / handy shortcuts by accident?
modified 8-Feb-22 2:18am.
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I found a VS shortcut (don't know what it was) that lost half the VS Panes and scrambled the rest. I had to use the Window -> Reset Window Layout to get anything usable. Now, when I try to move / view panes, VS just crashes. I hope I never find that shortcut again.
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I wish there was an option to lock down the panes in VS so that they cannot accidentally be dragged from their position. I tend to be a mouse user more than shortcuts, and this tends to happen often enough to be annoying...
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It happens to me as well. It would be nice to lock them in place. Searching for an answer I see that it's been requested before, years ago. It seems like the best alternative is to save the current layout and then load that saved layout if you really mess it up.
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Visual Studio 2008 has a bug that undocks all of your windows. To recover you must carefully start up a second instance of VS2008, exit the broken one, and then exit the 2nd. This forces the original window layout to get saved over the borked one.
And yes, my choice of present tense for the preceding paragraph was not an accident  ...
Software Zen: delete this;
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