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Picardy Place, later Picardy Street, is shaped like the letter “T” but laying down. In the picture, it’s slightly down and right of center.

One down, many to go.

• Saturday chores on the list.
• Toilet paper from CostCo.
• Bathroom remodel to commence momentarily.

When does the relaxing part begin?

Last day, 5:00PM: I’m out’a here.

The company computer is gone, the company cell phone is gone, all the little gizmos and doodads that go with them are gone.

I have nothing planned other than a few final tweaks to the work I’ve been doing for the past couple of months. At the end of the day, the company iPhone will get a factory reset and, along with all other other company equipment, it’ll be sealed up inside boxes and shipped out, never to return.

1. Everything in your computer is, at its lowest level, remembered as a set of binary “bits” each of which can be either a “1” or a “0” and if you arrange lots and lots AND LOTS of those together in just the right combination, you can see this web page on your LCD;
2. How synapses between nerves work – they either conduct or they don’t, very much like those “1"s and “0"s in the computer; and
3. Work-days I have left before retirement.

For the past fifty years I’ve been deeply involved with electronic computers and, over that period, no doubt you already know the growth has been enormous. But I can tell you that from an insider’s viewpoint, the growth is hundreds of times more than that. And it is bigger in ways that connect me to #2 above – the brain.

And while there are three work days to go – they are the “three of a kind” mentioned in the title – they really won’t be alike.

You cock it with the handle and then “fire” a single chuff of air. A hand at the end of the barrel would feel the air but 12" farther out you’d hardly notice. Regardless, it made a nice loud “Bang!”

So, Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, and Blitzen, not to mention Rudolf and his red nose, were all empty baggers?