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> All too often I'll be talking about something and think it was only a
> short time ago and be reminded it was several years ago.

I do that,. &/or vice-versa, too often. . .

> I would have continued working, maybe, had I not been considered a work
> horse who was on call 24/7 and to drop everything and hurry off somewhere at
> the last minute.  And considered full time with no life other than work.
> If I had been left alone to work one or two days a week only, I may have
> stayed on the job.

Up here, if you were "on call" you have to be paid $15.65/hour for that time, 
minimum.  As of this past June 1st. (last of the 10c/year increase already in 
law.)

Naturally employers still try to sneak it past people. . . 

> I am an Anglophile.  But it saddens me the way England is going now...
> I just hope she outlives Charles...

You're not alone in that(most Brits I know think likewise)! He's quite the 
crusty old doofus, with nowhere near the class requisite for such an honoured 
throne!

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