[Magdalen] Winding down.

[Jay Weigel]

On the east side of  Madison, WI, when the wind was right, you could get
the smells from Gardner Baking Co., which could either be bread or cinnamon
rolls (yum!). OTOH, when the wind was wrong, you got Oscar Mayer. UGH.

On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 10:01 AM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com
> wrote:

> As the song says, 'it only hurts for a little while.'  Just how long 'a
> little while' may be is certainly very personal.
>
> Good luck with this transition, Mike.
>
> Marion, a pilgrim
>
>
> On 5/11/2017 3:22 PM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon wrote:
>
>> I'm currently spending my final hours at the work location many of us
>> have been at for the last 21+ years.  I and my boss are the only two
>> non-executive-managerial sorts whose work never stops, so as long as my
>> computer and phone are here, I/we will be too.  I may lose my office chair
>> for the last bit, and sit on a hard, seemingly WWII issue metal chair for
>> the duration.  But more than likely, when the chair goes tomorrow
>> afternoon, I probably will too, and spend the last moments of the week
>> arranging my new cubicle.
>>
>> I'm really a person of "place" (ala Buechner's "Room Called Remember"),
>> so leaving here is almost bittersweet.  (I wasn't at the old, "original"
>> location long enough to develop much of an attachment to it.)
>>
>> We're going to "Schilling Place", named after the Schilling plant that
>> used to be on that street.  Smuckers used to be there too.  Salinas used to
>> have all the greats:  Schilling, Smuckers, Nestle, Hershey, Peter-Paul, you
>> name it.  I remember liking it as a kid when the wind would shift and I'd
>> get a whiff of fresh chocolate.
>>
>> Ah, times.
>>
>>
>