Fond memories and a tough meeting

August 29, 2024, Thursday afternoon, 4:39pm, pacific standard time, Home2Suites, Victorville,California,USA, room 237. Today is the start of college football and the twenty-two year anniversary of my last day working at the wyoming state hospital. That was a Thursday as well. I remember that time because the following Saturday I packed up and joined my then wife/daughters mother in Valencia, California. We had sold our house in Wyoming in June so she left early to get us settled while I stayed behind in my grandma’s basement. I was doing a unit of clinical pastoral education that didn’t wrap up until the end of august and needed to finish that prior to departing. Moving to valencia and subsequently Utah 9 months later was the golden age of my life. It lasted until late 2008. Fond memories of Utah are going through my mind today. I will enjoy them and get ready for a tough meeting tomorrow. In the morning I have to let an employee go because of census decline.