Frazz by Jef Mallett for March 10, 2020

I’ve worked with people who did that.

SO glad Gary Larson references are topical again!

That number on MY calendar is negative and growing ever more so. (happy sigh). Retirement’s the bee’s knees!

Well, you could retire tomorrow.

It just might not be very comfortable.

This is why you don’t keep track until you have a few months left.

I was fortunate to have avoided that ‘count down’ phobia. One sunny day in my 25th year of teaching, the thought came very clearly: It is time. Do it. I did it and 23 years downstream from that day, I still believe it was the best decision I could have made. I and my wife of 58 years have laughed, hugged, traveled, enjoyed family vacations and each other’s company, and life in general. We are grateful for every minute since.

I put a calendar in my office at school and crossed off the days. It was by the door of my counseling office and many teachers and students would stop to look at it during the year. That was five years ago and I am so glad I left when I did!

Vietnam vets had an expression, “I’m short”. Nothing to do with height.

This is the Frazz Universe time line — it resets itself every year. Ms O’s countdown is actually ∞.

Starting a countdown where you have years left is not really fun. Honest math, leap years and a really big number… nope, not fun. Plus coming up with the BIG number helps you remember how sucky it is right now.

4808 work hours to go.

mine is somewhere around 730 days, give or take one financial crisis.

Jef Mallett’s Blog Posts

Frazz ·11 hrs · Time flies, they will tell you. What they don’t tell you quite as often is that it can fly much as a hot air balloon flies: Slowly, in any direction conditions take it, while potentially casting a huge shadow over things.

Brilliant call out, especially now that is available on the internet

Shouldn’t she have a Frazz Calendar?

One Thousand Six Hundred and Twenty-Two. :-(

But that’s a drop in the bucket compared to the Thirteen Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-Nine I’ve been there already! :-)

I have enormous respect for teachers, if I was in charge for their pay I would double it yesterday, (most of them anyway)