Today is the end of my 14 years at CDC. My part of the agency (the Office on Smoking & Health) was eliminated and every employee was fired. I loved my job and it was the pleasure of my life to work with such dedicated & brilliant colleagues at CDC (both in tobacco and during my Covid rotations).

My wife said “I’ve never heard the term Apocalyptic Permanent Wave Art Rock before, but Spotify nailed it for you.”

It’s not Kentucky Derby Day, but you can still serve a derby pie on Thanksgiving (my recipe is essentially a pecan pie with chocolate chips and bourbon).

I’m going to have to find my voice on here. I’m going to be very careful, but would still like to make observations on public health. Alternative is hiking and dog photos and musings about horse racing and Radiohead. Anyway, here are my dogs on a walk looking at birds.

It has been a weird couple of weeks. But I deleted the other app for good.

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My wife and I won a lottery for rare permits to backpack and camp in The Enchantments, the set of alpine lakes in Washington State. We hiked 8-10 miles a day for 3 days and went from 1400ft to over 7500ft of elevation and back. It was an unreal experience.

Oppenheimer was 50% physics and 50% bureaucracy… and I fucking love bureaucracy.

We hiked to the top of ski runs at Mt Hood. Coming down was not as fun as it would have been in the winter.

Manually merging the people I was following on Twitter is going to be time consuming.