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all of those years wasn't another generation's sexist habits. It was because she got off work before I did and was there. I wasn't. I've found an almost Zen-like peace in slicing and dicing. Retirement in the time of COVID does have its challenges. I am by nature a homebody but I am also gregarious and miss human beings. The social aspect of our job has always been a little strange. We'd work on a project for months or sometimes a year with a group of people and become close. Often very close and then boom, they're gone. Sometimes years would pass before you'd meet up again. Then, "hello," there they are and it often seemed as if no time had passed. Social media changed that and I have remained close to people who in the past would have drifted away and become foggy memories. My kids tell me only old people use Facebook. Fine, only old people got to see Hendrix and Zeppelin so screw you kids. I've got that in my pocket, OK, boomer indeed. I was lucky in that I worked with a lot of the same people for decades forming strong relationships. A big advantage was that in some ways I was very well taken care of. They made sure that I never missed a school play, birthday, anniversary, Christmas dinner, or trick or treating with my kids. I have a friend who calls these "work friends" as opposed to real friends. His criteria is if you see them outside of work, they are real friends, if you don't, then they are work friends. The irony being that I don't see him outside of work but consider him a real friend. Weird. I do have friends I made in the "business" that leapt that chasm and became using his definition real friends. COVID not retirement has made seeing them difficult and I miss them. There is a group of us that regularly Zoom together. Sometimes those Zoom chats look as manageable as that cute opening I do have friends I made in the "business" that leapt that chasm and became using his definition real friends. COVID not retirement has made seeing them dicult and I miss them. There is a group of us that regularly Zoom together. Sometimes those Zoom chats look as manageable as that cute opening credit sequence of The Brady Bunch. Beyond Borders, Sony Studios mix stage 2003. L-R: Supervising sound editor Per Hallberg, re-recording mixer Bob Beemer, director Martin Campbell, re-recording mixer Scott Millan, music editor Jim Henrikson, sound effects editor Chris Assells, music assistant Barbara McDermott, sound re-recordist Fred Peck. Chris Assells: The last reel I cut on film, Happy Gilmore 1996.