Congratulations! Forty years is quite an achievement. You have definitely earned retirement. Now it’s time to finish your work life and take the opportunity to do what you want in retirement. Here’s to a new life!

Wow Muji,just think of all the lives you have influenced for the positive!
You should be very proud. Your students over the years were so lucky to have had you to shape their lives.
Can't wait to hear of all you are doing in your retirement.
Now is the well deserved time for rest and for you to live out your dreams.

Take pride, amigo. :-)

Big hug Muji.... I know it must be hard to come to it's almost retirement as much as you look forward to it

I hope that there will be good news when you see your kidney doctor next week.... You are in my prayers..... Another hug.... xo

Aqui contigo
Bendicion (a Puerto Rican blessing)

& lots of support,
Proud of you friend
Big hug <3

Thanks, y'all. Your support today helped me get two Spanish classes taught online today. Now tomorrow for the first time this semester I live stream my 3 psychology classes I teach. I got the syllabi ready and posted them on Brightspace for tomorrow. Now it's all about getting a good night's sleep.

The 80th and last semester begins......

Terrible day as school started on the wrong foot with all kinds of software failures on the college's part that were supposed to help me live stream classes from home. My college IT support head could care less, what with her purpose in her job being state politics and not helping instructors at all, and her deputy could care less, too, her shtick being bullying instructors so they'll never ask for help twice. Perfect jackasses, both of them.

I went to my coworker and got things sorted out for live streaming classes on Monday. My whole life staff and administrators at schools have been worse than worthless. If you wanted to get anything done, you went to a peer instructor.

Sorry Muji :-( It’s not like the old days when everyone helped each other. Will keep my fingers crossed that next week is better for you. Just keep your eye on the prize. Your almost there.

I'm sorry muji, that you had such difficulties... I will be praying that next week is better for you... I'll also be praying for them too
It never hurts and I hope it helps...
Gentle hugs

Oh my God! I have had such a tough week, what with school starting with a technical live streaming crash during class and two doctors' appointments with week, that I nearly forgot my part time job today!!!

Fortunately, I'm a pro, so when I bolted upright at 7am this morning and realized I'd gone to bed last night without planning to preach today, I found I had gotten everything ready before Christmas when I thought I'd be spending the holidays in Mexico. Whoa! Close call. The congregation saw me do fine, they all liked my sermon except one usual church lady who was snotty about it afterwards, unaware that I nearly didn't make myself available to be the target of her snark at all. As she let me know what was wrong with my sermon I couldn't help smiling to myself at what she didn't know--how close I came to missing giving it entirely.

So Tuesday I have my second doctors' appointment, and I hope things settle down from then on some. I have grown a little mass that has me thinking I may need a biopsy to see if I had a benign tumor or not, so I'll be mentioning that in this week's appointment and that may lead to another for a biopsy. We'll see. Here's hoping I can teach live streaming tomorrow without my computer crashing, too.

Thanks for your prayers, I need them to start this week!

Prayers,always,my friend.

Another terrible day teaching via live streaming from home. My computer crashed during one class, during another class my days of preparation figuring out how to show a video WITH audio failed when the time came to do it. I have taught for 40 years and am retiring in 4 months, but I guess I get a technological humiliation first, huh? It's embarrassing, but my IT people at my college bully instructors rather than help us so they don't have to be bothered.

Muji, be easy on yourself. I think right now we all have technology challenges. There are so many people on the internet that I sometimes have slow service which has caused problems with my instruction videos and meditation videos. I think with the increased use of internet and technology even providers are having problems keeping up with demands and bugs in new services and technology. It’s been quite a learning journey!

Congratulations. You are inspiring Muji