baumgrenze
Confused about dryer sheets
Hi, I'm baumgrenze
That is German for 'timberline.' I chose the name years ago when my feet were still willing to take me above timberline in the High Sierra every summer/autumn.
I'm an immigrant's son. Dad arrived on a ship from Germany (Port:Bremen - Heimat: Stangenbach, earliest mention 779 AD) at age 17 on Labor Day 1929. He was a journeyman baker about to start his 'Wanderjahre' when the chance to use a ticket (indenture to a dairy farmer in Elgin, IL) opened his path here.
I made my career as a PhD synthetic organic chemist, spending most of my years at Zoecon (and its successor owners) in Palo Alto, CA and retired with a brass handshake (shiny but brass) a couple of months shy of my 57th birthday, so I retired early
A financial advisor friend reassured me that my nest egg ought to last and my wife was gainfully employed in software support at HP at the time.
I'm an ultraconservative investor. In the most recent major recession in 2008 all I lost was a steady income stream from Treasury Direct.
My apologies to anyone offended by what they saw in the original last paragraph.
Enough said,
baumgrenze
That is German for 'timberline.' I chose the name years ago when my feet were still willing to take me above timberline in the High Sierra every summer/autumn.
I'm an immigrant's son. Dad arrived on a ship from Germany (Port:Bremen - Heimat: Stangenbach, earliest mention 779 AD) at age 17 on Labor Day 1929. He was a journeyman baker about to start his 'Wanderjahre' when the chance to use a ticket (indenture to a dairy farmer in Elgin, IL) opened his path here.
I made my career as a PhD synthetic organic chemist, spending most of my years at Zoecon (and its successor owners) in Palo Alto, CA and retired with a brass handshake (shiny but brass) a couple of months shy of my 57th birthday, so I retired early
A financial advisor friend reassured me that my nest egg ought to last and my wife was gainfully employed in software support at HP at the time.
I'm an ultraconservative investor. In the most recent major recession in 2008 all I lost was a steady income stream from Treasury Direct.
My apologies to anyone offended by what they saw in the original last paragraph.
Enough said,
baumgrenze
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